Learning Plan April 1-3

Hi Grade 1 Families! Below are some activities for this week.  

Learning Plan – April 1-3

Task 1

Activity – Drawing/Writing

Draw a picture and write about what you have been doing since school ended.

Guiding questions:

-how are you feeling?

-what is different? What is the same?

-what are the things you like about being at home all day?

-what do you miss?

-what is something fun that you have done with your family?

-do you have any questions for your teacher?

Learning Intentions:

-I can draw a detailed picture to represent my ideas

-I can write and/or verbally share about my experiences

Extension (optional):

-students can edit and check their work for punctuation, proper spelling of sight words and upper and lowercase letters

Important note – this is a shared literacy activity. The goal is for students to share how they are feeling/thoughts about how things have changed in the past couple of weeks. The goal is for students to draw a detailed picture and write about their experiences. You can support students with spelling, sounding out words and generating ideas. You are also welcome to support them by scribing (write some of their ideas for them) if necessary. The focus of this task is less about printing/spelling and more about students sharing their feelings/thoughts.

 Task 2

Activity – Building/Writing

Option 1

Using materials that you have at home, build something unique and special. Get creative!!

Guiding questions:

-what is it called?

-what is it used for?

-how does it work?

-how would you describe it?

-what materials did you use?

Option 2

Using materials that you have at home, build a setting and characters. Write a story about it!

Guiding questions:

-where does your story take place (setting)?

-who are the characters?

-what is the problem?

-what is the solution?

-what happens in the beginning, middle and end?

Learning Intentions:

-I can use a variety of found materials (tin foil, paper, blocks, lego, sticks, rocks, etc) to represent my ideas

-I can share my ideas through writing

-I can check for upper and lowercase letters and the proper spelling of sight words

Extension (optional):

-complete both tasks, try and record your ideas in different ways, for example in Task 1 students could draw a diagram and include labels and in Task 2 they could write a simple story

Task 3

Activity – Math

Shape Hunt – Go on a shape hunt around your house looking for and recording the 3D objects that you see! Look for (at least) the 3D objects below and see how many of each you can find. Choose a way to record your findings.

 

Guiding questions

-what 3D objects can you find around the house (for example, a can of soup is a cylinder shape)?

-what 3D objects can you name?

-how will you record your ideas? (tally marks, graph, list, pictures)  

-what other 3D objects do you see?

Learning Intensions:

-I can name 3D objects

-I can identify 3D objects around my house (can – cylinder)

-I can record my findings

Extensions:

-after the shape hunt, answer the following questions:

            -which 3D object has the least? Which has the most?

            -count the number of each that you found, is the number odd? even?

            -add all of your groups together, how many shapes did you find in total?

-describe 3D objects using the terms vertices and edges

-compare and describe three different 3D objects

-build 3D objects using materials that you can find around the house (playdough, toothpicks, pasta, marshmallows etc. with permission, of course!)

Task 4

Math

Grab, Estimate, Count

Choose different sets of objects around your house (coins, pasta, buttons, cereal) take a handful, estimate how many, count and record the number.

For large amounts, have students count 10 and put them aside. Seeing what 10 looks like will help them make an estimate for the rest of the group. “If this is what 10 looks like, how many do you think there are in the whole group.”

This also leaves lots of options for how kids choose to count the group. They can count by 2, 5, 10 or find other ways to count. Students are working toward using more efficient strategies.

 Reading

On top of these three tasks, we encourage students to be reading for 20 minutes each day. After reading, have your child discuss what they have read. Some comprehension question you can ask after reading include:

-where did the story take place (setting)?

-who were the characters?

-what happened at the beginning, middle, end?

-can you summarize the story?

-what is one new fact that you learned (non-fiction texts)?

-what would happen if….

-why do you think….

*If your child would like to share their work with me, you are welcome to take a picture and include it in an email. At this point we are unable to open attachments, but can see photos that are included in the email itself. This is completely optional*