Fox Family Learning
Resources for our Fox Family that you can use at home.
At Home Learning Opportunities
Fox Families,
This page is meant to be a learning resource for parents and students. As a father and Principal, I want to provide you with helpful things that I know I would like as a parent.
These links and resources are for families who decide to engage in any extra learning at home.
Your Fox Family
Phonemic Awareness- Building Blocks for Reading
At Fox and in Chippewa Valley, our teachers are now using a program called Heggerty to help improve the phonemic awareness of our K-3 students. You can do these types of activities at home.
Click on the links below for an example of how to practice phonemic awareness at home in the style that Heggerty models it. This video is for Pre-K. It can be utilized with older students who struggle with manipulating sounds as well. It's a great start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=CSv4PZT4Y_g&app=desktop
Heggerty Phonemic Awareness for K-3 students (You can even use this with older students to help with reading)
You can do this! The kids catch on and it works!
Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Website
Here is another link to the Heggerty Website. They are offering free learning videos while kids are off school.
Chippewa Valley Teacher demonstrating using Heggerty Phonemic Awareness- see below
Learning Sounds at Home
Here are a few simple ways to build skills that will help your children with processing sounds of speech which in turn help them in reading:
1. PLAY WORD GAMES IN THE CAR OR ANYWHERE ESLE
- Parent: Say, cowboy...Now say cowboy without the cow. Say mailbox.....Now say it without the box.......
Move from compound words to words like kitchen...…
- Parent: Say kitchen.....now say kitchen without the k.......Say monster.....Now say monster without the mon........
***These word games help with processing sounds of speech and it wires the brain to do this.
Now, let's try to have the kids identify single beginning phoneme sounds at the beginning or end of words:
- Parent: Say loon....Now say loon without the n.......
- Parent: Say moon....Now say moon without the n...…
- Parent: Say can't.....Now say can't without the c......
-Talk about what the words mean to help build vocabulary.
2. SONGS and RHYMING
Play Rhyming Games or Songs when you can......Be creative. Below are some ways it can be done it a classroom. How could you make a game of this at home or in the car?
Examples: (Think of ways you can incorporate this at home)
- Transitioning form one activity to the next: "whisper words that rhyme with table........."
- Lining up: ask kids to tell you the first sound in lunch or the last sound......last sound in pizza.......
- While on a walkl kids can use their fingers to to show how many sounds are in words that you say.......
- Adjusting the level of difficulty: Some kids might count the sounds in the word, Up, while another child might count the sounds in the word Skim.........
- Before leaving the room for a break, ask the child what sound a certain word starts with...….
BE AS CREATIVE AS YOU WANT!
iRead Home Extension Resource
Any student who uses iRead at Fox for reading interventions may use this program at home.
Journeys-ELA-Reading and Writing Links for Home Use
Journeys student books and leveled readers that does not require students to log in. (The pictures of books are actually links to those books. There are shapes that you can clink on as links as well.)
https://www.chippewavalleyschools.org/downloads/academics/journeys_student_book_access.pdf
Free Reading and Other Links for Home Learning Use
The following links can be used by students who receive special education services or general education services.
Decodable books with alignment to ReadWell 1 by Clarkness http://clarkness.com/index.htm
Language!: on – line supports such as Sortegories and VocabJourney: students need the website, username and password
Language!: Send home student book; assign challenge reading and writing as a read aloud, talk about with family support
Advanced beginning reader stories by Clarkness http://clarkness.com/index.htm
Beginning Chapter Books by Clarkness http://clarkness.com/index.htm
(CMC Book A?) Emergent Math e books by Clarkness http://clarkness.com/index.htm
Free read alouds by Vooks
https://www.vooks.com/resources
https://www.vooks.com/teacher-appreciation?msclkid=e5905b2276ea1e2f76c00549f9cc8fbe
16 FREE RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS WHO ARE CLOSING DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
https://www.coolcatteacher.com/16-free-resources-for-schools-who-are-closing-due-to-coronavirus/
The link below is for a google doc of education companies and resources that are offering free memberships and services for any schools that are closed due to the Coronavirus.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1NUKLZN7hGSu1Hzm70kfzBKs-lsSELaEMggS60Bi2O2I/htmlview
For Families Without Internet
Readworks- set up your free account
Math Resources- Bridges Math
Math Update
We have recently added the Bridges Math resources to our school website. Now, you don't have to worry if your child forgets their Home Connections or homework at school for math. As a dad, I have had this happen many times. Math Links below:
Accessing Bridges Math at Home
Bridges Math Materials For Home Use
Access Information Below:
Your username will be: CVSMath
Password: bridges@home
Math Games and Fun
Here are some games that involve math skills. Below are some links to websites of suggested games for all ages.
The Big List of Board Games that Inspire Mathematical Thinking
Math Games, Mindset and Math Intervention_Grade Level Connections
Apps & Games recommend on youcubed.org
Science Fun
Mystery Science is a science program many of our classroom us at Fox. Mystery Science has added free mini lessons while kids are away from school!
Links from our Special Education Department
Continued Special Education Links
For parents familiar with the Language! program (Book A), Mark & Scott Kelly (the astronaut twins) have a book on this list - written by Mark Kelly and read by Scott Kelly - It's called Mousetronaut - see below.
Story Time from Space Directory
Ada Lace Take Me to Your Leader (Part 1)
Running Time: 22:04 Minutes
Ada Lace Take Me to Your Leader (Part 2)
Running Time: 18:28 Minutes
Ada Lace Take Me to Your Leader (Part 3)
Running Time: 13:15 Minutes
Read by: Anne McClain
Running Time: 9:31 Minutes
Read by: Hazzaa al-Mansoori (In Arabic)
The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home
Running Time: 10:29 Minutes
Written by: Lost My Name
Read by: Tim Peake
Max Goes to the International Space Station
Running Time: 16 Minutes
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett
Read by: Mike Hopkins
Max Goes to the International Space Station
Japanese Reading – New
Running Time: 16 Minutes
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett
Read by: Koichi Wakata
Running Time: 15 Minutes
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett
Read by: Mike Hopkins
Running Time: 15:16
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett
Read by: Mike Hopkins
Running Time: 16:35
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett
Read by: Mike Hopkins
The Wizard Who Saved the World
Running Time: 20:32
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett
Read by: Koichi Wakata
Running Time: 15:47
Written by: John Danny Olivas
Read by: Tim Kopra
Running Time: 8:32
Written by: Andrea Beaty
Read by: Kate Rubins
Running Time: 11:16
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett
Read by: Col. R. Shane Kimbrough
Scientists and Their Writings
Running Time: 10:53
Written by: Jessica Fries-Gaither
Running Time: 13.51
Written by: Travis Bossard & Mick Szydlowski
Read by: Richard (Ricky) Arnold
The Next Time You See a Sunset
Running Time: 11:35
Written by: Emily Morgan
Running Time: 8:07
Written by: Mark Kelly
Mousetronaut Goes to Mars – Coming Soon
Running Time: TBD
Written by: Mark Kelly
Read by: Scott Kelly
The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm – Coming Soon
Running Time: TBD
Written by: LeVar Burton and Susan Bernardo
Read by: TBD