This Week’s Learning Targets

I can name and sort vowel teams. I can describe the difference between living and nonliving organisms. I can identify American Symbols and describe why they are important. I can compare two numbers. I can identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than,

less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group.

Required Weekly Tasks

Istation Reading –30 minutes per week

MobyMax Math or istation Math- 30 minutes per week

Read or be read to for 20 minutes each day

Read 1-2 leveled readers on kids a-z or EPIC

Usernames and Passwords

Brainpop jr. --Username: duny180, password: dekalb

PebbleGo-- Username: duny180, password: dekalb

Kindergarten Learning Tasks: Day 26

English Language Arts

New sight words: now, find, long

To practice, write words on pieces of paper and put them around the house. Have students go search for them and practice saying the words.

Reading:

Read “The Button Box” on getepic.com The Button Box. List three ways the children sorted their grandmother’s buttons.

Phonics: Vowel Teams

Watch a video about vowel teams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-n_LHGseNk

Write the words that have a vowel team and read the words aloud: train, dog, bus, rain, tree, boat

Math

Watch Comparing Numbers on Brainpop jr. (username: duny180, password: dekalb) https://jr.brainpop.com/math/numbersense/comparingnumbers/

Play Greater Than/Less Than with playing cards. Using playing cards 2-10 (or self-created cards). Student flips over two cards and tells which cards are greater than, less than, or equal. Possible sentence frames ___ is greater than ___, ___ is less than ___, ___ is equal to ___.

Optional game for two players: play war. Each person flips over one of their cards. The person with the greater number gets to keep both cards. Play continues until one person has all the cards.

Science

Living and Nonliving- Go to Pebble go and research Living or Nonliving. Answer this question: What do living things need?

Kindergarten Learning Tasks: Day 27

Please note: the activities listed in red will be submitted to your child’s teacher on Friday.

English Language Arts

To practice sight words, play Paper Plate Toss: Write sight words on paper plates. Use like frisbees to throw after saying the word correctly.

Reading:

Read “Scaredy Squirrel” on getepic.com https://www.getepic.com/app/read/5813

Why is the squirrel afraid to leave his tree? What happens at the end of the book?

Phonics: Vowel Teams

Watch a video about vowel teams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PJGqbCeRU4

After watching the video, make a chart similar to the one below.

Put the following words into the correct category: seal, reef, tea, week, beat, feed, weak, real, need

Math

Watch Mr. Alligator can Chomp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGvrG6049wE

Use >, <, = to compare the following sets of numbers:

5 ___ 8

3 ___ 3

9___6

7___4

12___10

20___18

16___14

Social Studies

Read the information card about the Liberty Bell with a grown up. Review view what you have learned about the Liberty Bell. Use glue, an empty toilet paper roll, a plastic cup, aluminum foil, and the great help of a grownup to create your own Liberty Bell!

Cover the cup in aluminum. Write Liberty Bell as best as you can on the toilet paper. Use glue or masking tape to attach the toilet paper roll on top. 😊

Make sure to take pictures!

Kindergarten Learning Tasks: Day 28

English Language Arts

To practice sight words, hunt for them in books and newspapers. See how many you can find!

Reading: Compare and Contrast

Read the book “Polar Bears and Penguins: a compare and contrast book”. https://www.getepic.com/app/read/42732

Use a venn diagram to compare and contrast the two animals. You can draw your own or use this one.

Phonics: Vowel Teams

Watch the following video about vowel teams ai and ay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrIyCT7nK0

Choose the correct vowel team and practice reading the words aloud.

Math

Read More Than, Less Than on Epic!

Roll 2 dice. Draw them. Circle the dice that has fewer dots. Repeat 9 times.

*** Virtual dice roller: https://www.random.org/dice/?num=2

Science

Living and Nonliving- Go to Pebble go and research Living or Nonliving- click on the tab that says READ MORE and listen to either book and write 2 sentences about the book.

Kindergarten Learning Tasks: Day 29

English Language Arts

To practice sight words, practice spelling them with play dough.

Reading: My Favorite Part

Read a book of your choosing. Draw a picture of your favorite part of the story. Write one sentence to go along with your drawing.

Phonics: Vowel Teams

Practice reading this poem, and see how many vowel teams you can identify.

I dream of a meal by the seaside,I dream of a meal by the sea

A seat on the beachWith the sea within reach

And peaches and cream for my tea.Yes please!

Math

Solve the problems. Show your work.

You ate 8 cookies! Your friend ate fewer cookies than you. How many cookies did your friend eat?

Your teacher read 5 books last week. How many do you have to read if you want to read more than her?

Social Studies

Review this information about the Statue of Liberty with a grown up. If the Statue of Liberty is made of copper, why is she green? Soak some copper pennies vinegar and salt. Draw a picture of what the pennies looked like before and after. What did you find out? 😊

Kindergarten Learning Tasks: Day 30

Make up Day

Optional Choice board Activities

Copy the following words and draw a picture of each word: tree, rain, boat, leaf

Go on a nature walk and find one living and nonliving item. Compare them by writing at least 2 sentences in explaining how each item are different.

Look for other household items that you have to make the White House. Take a picture!

Use red strips of paper and draw a blue square in the upper left hand corner of a white sheet of paper and create your own American Flag.

Here’s a game you can play with a parent or sibling. Gather up some small items (erasers, pompoms, buttons, pennies, fruit loops, m&m . . .). Set them in the middle. Roll a dice and take that many items and place them in a container for you. Take turns. When all the items are gone, each player counts their items to see who has the most and is the winner.

Sight word slap/stomp. Write sight words on paper, use a flyswatter to slap or place words on the floor and stomp the words as they are called

Record yourself reading a book and send to a relative or your teacher.

Design a 3D model of the perfect playground using paper, boxes, pipe cleaners, craft sticks or whatever you can find.

Build a flotation device out of recycled materials for an action figure or doll. Test it out in a sink or tub.

Write a scary story. Make sure to include a beginning, middle, and end.

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