Community Classroom (Week of March 29th - April 3rd)

This Week’s Motivational Video: The Power of Yet

Assignment: Draw a picture and/or write a response to the following questions: What is something that you want to achieve/do but haven’t done yet? (Why haven’t you done it yet? What will help you accomplish this task?)

Morning Positive Affirmations Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud_eeFkzH4w

Letters of the Week: Rr, Tt, Ww (Click each letter for a video.)

Assignments:

PreK-K: Find items around your home, in a book, or outside that begin or end with one of the letters of the week.

1st: Write five words that END with each letter of the day.

Numbers of the Week: 4, 5, 45

PreK-K: Review the value of numerals 4 and 5 as well as skip counting by 5,. Click the numerals for number of the day video 4 and 5. Click here to review skip counting by 5. Click here for addition and subtraction video.

Assignment

PreK - K

Write the numerals of the week (4 and 5). Draw a picture to show HOW MUCH each numeral is worth. (Example: 2** 7 $$$$$$$)

1st - 2nd:

Find as many ways as possible to make the number 45. (Example 45: 20+25 OR 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 25)

2nd - 3rd: Review multiplication facts. Click the number for multiplication fact review: 4’s and 5’s.

  1. Write out multiplication facts for 4’s and 5’s

  2. Math bingo (multiplication): https://www.abcya.com/games/math_bingo

Vowel of the Week: Short e

PreK-1st: “Short e” (Click here for short vowel song.) (Click here for blending “short e” video). Draw and label a picture of 3 things that begin with the short e sound.

Word of the Week: Perseverance/Persevere (Click here for the word of the week for video on perseverance.)

Assignment (K-3): Write a journal entry/Draw a picture about a time when you had to persevere (a time when you chose not to give up).

Book of the Week: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka (Click the link for the read aloud.)

Assignment:

PreK - 1st: Draw and label the CHARACTERS in the story. Draw/Write about what happened at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END or the story.

2nd - 3rd: In two to three sentences, explain how the wolf showed PERSEVERANCE in the story.

Additional Reading Assignment: Nonfiction Text Features

PreK-K:

  1. Review text features. Click here for a video on text features.

  2. Listen to the read aloud. Click here for non-fiction story.

  3. What text features did you notice?

1st - 3rd:

  1. Review text features. Click here for a video on text features.

  2. Listen to the read aloud. Click here for non-fiction story.

  3. Write down 3 text features you noticed.

This Week’s Art Project: Transforming numbers into pictures. Click here for tutorial.

This Week’s Writing Focus: Capitalization and Punctuation

PreK-K: Sentence video

1st - 3rd: Watch the Punctuation and Capitalization videos. (Bonus: Quotation Marks Video)

Fix the sentences below:

  1. today is monday.

  2. What are you going to do today

  3. my mom said, clean up before you go outside.

  4. how many pets do you have

  5. watch out for that train

This Weeks Writing Assignments:

  1. Perseverance Journal Entry

  2. Choose one of your writing assignments from this week or last week. Edit your work by checking for punctuation and capitalization errors. Click here for a checklist to help you. Type or rewrite your assignment in your best handwriting.

Brain Break: Check out these Hidden Picture Activities

SHARE YOUR WORK WITH THE CLASS!

Parents: I’d love to celebrate your child’s hard work! Feel free to share pictures of their hard work. Tag me @piecesofajm #communityclassroomw/ZoraBea I’ll pick one or two to post and celebrate!

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

SAMPLE READING PLAN

SAMPLE READING PLAN

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