March to May 2020

Last Week of Community Classroom (Week of May 17th - 23rd)

Assignments & Activities for the Week

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

This Week’s Motivational Video: Kid President + Peanuts/ Life’s a Comic

Click HERE for your own comic strip template from Scholastic.com. What will you do with your day today?! Use the comic strip to plan what you’re going to do with your day. How will you make the most of your day?

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

Word of the Week: INVALUABLE YOU ARE INVALUABLE!! This means YOU are worth SO MUCH that your worth can’t be measured. You are invaluable! YOU are the reason for Community Classroom.

  1. Watch the video: “The Reflection in Me” by FableVision

  2. Write a letter to your future self. Include FIVE kind sentences to yourself in your letter. Put the letter away until next school year. Open and read your letter on the first day of school.

reading & Language arts nugget

Book of the Week: Oh, The Place’s You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss

This Week’s Writing Focus: Paragraph Writing

Writing Assignments:

  1. Watch the video below about paragraph writing: How to Write a Paragraph Video

  2. Write THREE paragraphs:

    • Monday: Paragraph #1: The Best Thing About This School Year

    • Tuesday: Paragraph #2: The Worst Thing About This School Year

    • Wednesday: Paragraph #3: What I Learned While At Home This School Year

    • Thursday: EDIT & REVISE your paragraphs; Rewrite them after fixing your errors.

  3. Your paragraph should have a topic sentence, followed by two to three sentences that include supporting details. Use the video above to help you through the steps to writing a good paragraph.

  4. Draw an illustration to match your paragraph’s topic.

  5. Share your work! Post a picture of your best paragraph and tag me @PiecesofAJM on Instagram so that I can celebrate your work.

BREAK ACTIvITIES

Movement Break:

ART

This Week’s Art Project: TRANSPORTATION

For more lessons, check out “How to Draw Vehicles” at the Art for Kids Hub: Click HERE.

End of Year Review/Summer Practice by Grade Level:

Pre-K

KINDERGARTEN

FIRST GRADE

SECOND GRADE

THIRD GRADE

ENCOURAGEMENT CORNER FOR PARENTS & CARETAKERS

Check out this article written by Tanisha Foster- health educator, mother of two, distance learning teacher of four and founder of CHOP Friendly:

https://birmingham.citymomsblog.com/health-and-wellness/food-allergies-covid-19/

May you find encouragement in knowing that you are not alone. May you also be encouraged to share your experiences with others. There’s power and help to be found in the sharing of our stories.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

 

If you have any questions, comments, or resources to share, please use the form below.

Crayon Art in the Making.jpg

Coming Soon: Mindful Art Summer Sessions

Community Classroom with Zora Bea will be having EIGHT Summer Sessions Called: Mindful Art for Kids. Mindful Art for Kids will begin the week of May 31st and last throughout the week of July 19th. These sessions will include a weekly: a read aloud from The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey, a journal prompt, and a visual or literary art project.

Supplies needed for each session will be posted soon. ALL sessions will require a journal, notebook, or paper that can be used for journaling.

More information coming soon…

Community Classroom (Week of May 10th - 16th)

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

This Week’s Motivational Video: Little Lights/Hope Works CBC Kids

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

Word of the Week: HOPE; Click here for the definition.

  1. Draw a picture of what HOPE means to you. Use a sentence or sentences to explain your picture. Don’t worry about spelling. Sound your words out! (PreK: Tell an adult what your picture means and have them write your sentence for you.)

  2. Watch this week’s motivational video. How does the little girl in the video give hope?

  3. Write a response to the following journal prompts:

    • What is something you are hoping for?

    • What are ways you can give others hope?

    • Why is it important to have hope?

MATH

Number of the Week: 0 Number Story: Zero by Kathryn Otoshi

Reflection Questions: How did Zero see himself at the beginning of the story? How did he feel about himself by the end of the story? What gave Zero hope?

Zero Rules:

Assignments:

PreK-K: Ordering Numbers Packet

1st - 3rd: Addition and Subtraction Facts Worksheets

2nd - 3rd:

LANGUAGE & READING

Vowel of the Week: long vowel e

Assignments:

K-3rd: Short/Long Vowel Sort

1st - 3rd: Long Vowel Sorting Practice

Book of the Week: “A Flicker of Hope” by Julia Cook

Reading Response Questions

  • What was wrong with the little candle?

  • What gifts did he have?

  • What are your gifts?

This Week’s Writing Focus:

Writing Assignments: Journaling

Take time each day to write about your thoughts and feelings. (Drawings count too!) It doesn’t have to be long. Don’t worry about spelling, but be sure to put the date at the top of each entry. If you feel stuck, start off answering one of the following questions:

  • What did you do today?

  • What do you hope will happen today?

  • How are you feeling? Why?

Pre-K and K: Journaling for kindergartners video

K-3rd: Quarantine Journaling Mini-Lesson

BREAK ACTIVITIES

Brain Break: Check out these Hidden Picture Activities

Movement Break:

ART

This Week’s Art Project: Drawing Birds

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:

 

If you have any questions, comments, or resources to share, please use the form below.

Community Classroom (Week of May 3rd - 9th)

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

This Week’s Motivational Video: Kid President: 25 Reason to be Thankful

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

Word of the Week: Gratitude (Click our word of the week for the definition.)

  • “My Gratitude Jar” by Kristin Wiens

  • Create a Gratitude Jar. (You can use whatever you’d like for your jar. It could be a shoebox, cup, etc.) Add something you are grateful for to your jar each day for 7 days. (If you can’t spell it, draw it.)

  • Go on a Gratitude Scavenger Hunt: Click HERE for the scavenger hunt list.

  • For Mother’s Day: Create a separate Gratitude Jar JUST FOR MOM. Add something about your mom that you appreciate or are grateful for each day from now until Mother’s Day.

***history/Cultural corner***

In honor of Cinco de Mayo this week:

MATH

Shapes of the Week: Circle & Sphere

How many circle and sphere shaped objects can you find in your home or around your community?

Math Focus of the Week: FRACTIONS

Introduction to Fractions Video: Click HERE.

Additional Fraction Video: Click HERE.

Assignments:

  1. Fraction Practice (K-1st)

  2. Fraction Match up (1st -3rd)

  3. Fraction Practice Worksheet #1

  4. Fraction Practice Worksheet #2

  5. **Cinco de Mayo Math review sheets

LANGUAGE & READING

Letters of the Week: Cc (hard Cc and soft Cc) and Kk

*Mini-lesson Videos:

PreK-1st: Find items around your home, in a book, or outside that begin or end with one of the letters of the week.

  • Click here for “Find the Letter C game.”

  • Click here for “Find the Letter C game.”

1st - 3rd:

  • Click HERE to review Hard and Soft Cc Posters. Choose FIVE hard Cc and FIVE soft Cc words to use in a sentence. Draw an illustration to match your sentence.

  • Practice with hard and soft Cc: Worksheet #1

Vowel of the Week:

long o silent e mini-lesson

long o vowel teams mini-lesson #1 (long)

long o vowel teams mini-lesson #2 (short)

Assignments: K-2nd Mini-book to practice reading long o words. More Long-o practice

Digraph: ck

Books of the Week:

More Practice/Assignment:

  • Cinco de Mayo Flip Book (Reading & Activity Sheets)

  • Assignment: Write a letter to a friend or family member about what you’ve learned about Cinco de Mayo. Include a picture at the end of your letter. (For a mini-lesson on letter writing, look at last week’s videos.)

This Week’s Writing Focus: Informational Writing

Writing Assignments:

PreK- K: Draw and label a picture that shows THREE FACTS you learned about Cinco de Mayo.

K- 1st: Write THREE sentences about FACTS you’ve learned about Cinco de Mayo. Draw a picture to match each sentence.

1st - 3rd: Use the videos below to help you write an information text about Cinco de Mayo. It doesn’t have to be long! Just make an effort to include the parts listed below.

Below are mini-lessons and a suggested guide:

BREAK ACTIVITIES

Brain Break: Check out these Hidden Picture Activities

Movement Break:

ART

This Week’s Art Project: MOTHER’S DAY CARDS!!! (Mother’s Day is May 10th!)

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:

 

If you have any questions, comments, or resources to share, please use the form below.

Community Classroom (Week of April 26th - May 2nd)

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

This Week’s Motivational Video: “Color Your World with Kindness”

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

Word of the Week: EMPATHY (Click the word of the week for a definition.)

MATH

(Check back on Wednesday for additional math assignments.)

Shapes of the Week: Square & Cube

Watch the videos about shapes below. How many things shaped like squares and cubes can you find around your home?

LANGUAGE arts

Letters of the Week: Bb, Dd, Qq

For help distinguishing b from d, click HERE.

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: Find three items that begin with each of the letters of the week. Use them in a sentence. (Example: Ll is for lamp. Turn on the lamp.)

2nd - 3rd: Find three items that begin with each letter of the week. List three adjectives (describing words) for each item. Use one pair of words in a sentence. (Example: L is for light. My three adjectives are bright lamp, dim light, mysterious light. My sentences is: He was trying to find out where the mysterious light was coming from. ;)

Vowel of the Week: Silent e and Long “a” (Click each below.)

Practice Worksheets: Silent e (K-1st) and Silent e word unscramble (1st)

Digraphs: th, ch, wh, sh, ph (Click on each digraph for a mini-lesson.)

PreK-3rd: Click here for practice worksheet packet with consonant blends and digraphs. There are about 49 pages. Don’t try to complete them all in one week. You can go to the digraphs on pages: 41-49. PreK and K can draw pictures of words rather than write the word depending on their ability. 2nd and 3rd grade use it as a review.

1st - 2nd: Click here to read the passage and complete the comprehension questions.

2nd - 3rd: Click here to practice with the digraph wh.

Spelling

Take one set at at time. Practice spelling each word. Have someone quiz you. When you get all of them right, move on to the next set of words.

Fun Syllable Review: Clap it Out by Blazer Fresh & GoNoodle Video (Click the title for syllable practice.)

Reading Focus: Friendly Letters

Book of the Week: “Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James

More Practice:

This Week’s Writing Focus: Friendly Letter => How to Write a Friendly Letter Mini-Lesson

  • Friendly Letter Template PreK-K: Click HERE.

  • Friendly Letter Template (1st - 3rd): Click HERE.

Writing Assignments: Think of someone who could you some encouragement or kind words. Write them a letter and mail or email it to them. (PreK-K: Draw a picture and have a parent or family member help you write the words in your letter. 1st - 3rd: Don’t stress about spelling. Focus on thinking about kind words to say to someone in your letter. Do your best to sound out your words. Draw a picture to match your letter. Remember, it’s the thought that counts most, not perfect spelling!

BREAK ACTIVITIES

Movement Break:

ART

This Week’s Art Project: Drawing Shapes

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 #communityclassroomwithZoraBea I’ll pick one or two to posts to showcase.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

 

If you have any questions, comments, or resources to share, please use the form below.

Earth Day 2020 w/ Zora Bea

Let’s celebrate and take care of our Earth together!

Share how you are either honoring the earth or doing something to help take care of the earth.

Today’s Field Trip: “Gratefulness Walk” Take a nature walk. Take notice of all the things you are grateful for in nature. If you can’t go outside, look out your window and do a “Grateful Observation” of things in nature you are grateful for.

Below are other ways you can honor and celebrate our earth today.

Community Classroom (Week of April 19th - 20th)

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

This Week’s Motivational Video: “Don’t Give Up” by Sesame Street and Bruno Mars

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

Word of the Week: Resilient/Resilience (Click the words for definitions. Click here for an additional definition.)

How is RESILIENCE shown in each of the short video and story below:

What doe RESILIENCE mean in your own words?

Write about a time when you showed RESILIENCE- a time when did not let a challenge or failure hold you back. Draw an illustration to match your writing.

MATH

Numbers of the Week: 11, 12

PreK-K:

  1. Review the value of numbers 11 and 12. (Click the numbers for a video on each.)

  2. Write the numbers of the week (11 and 12). Draw a picture to show HOW MUCH each numeral is worth. (Example: 2** 7 $$$$$$$)

K-1st:

  1. Click here for addition and subtraction video.

  2. Solve the following:

    • 10+1

    • 5+6=

    • 6+6=

    • 7+4=

    • 8+4=

    • 6+6=

    • 10+2=

  3. Solve the addition puzzle by clicking here.

  4. REVIEW & CONTINUED PRACTICE: Click here for and addition and here for subtraction worksheet. (Use homemade counters, like cereal or toys to help add and subtract. Start with simple addition worksheets and move on to the more complex worksheets. It’s okay if you don’t finish them all this week!!)

2nd - 3rd:

  1. Show as many was as possible to make each number of the week. (For example: 11=5+6; 11=5X2+1)

  2. Review multiplication facts for 6, 7, 8, and 9 times tables.

  3. Practice multiplication facts for 11 and 12. (Click the number for a review.)

  4. Math Games: https://www.abcya.com/games/math_bingo

LANGUAGE & READING

Letters of the Week: Gg and Yy

Gg has a soft and hard sound. Click each Gg for a video: Gg (giant), Gg (goat)

Click here for the letter Yy video.

PreK-K: Draw and label a picture of something that starts with the soft G, something that starts with the hard G, and something that begins with the letter Y.

Be on the look out for words that begin with Gg and Yy in your stories this week! Point out the words as you hear and see them.

1st: Find three items that begin with each of the letters of the week. Use them in a sentence. (Example: Ll is for lamp. Turn on the lamp.)

2nd - 3rd: Find three items that begin with each letter of the week. List three adjectives (describing words) for each item. Use one pair of words in a sentence. (Example: L is for light. My three adjectives are bright lamp, dim light, mysterious light. My sentences is: He was trying to find out where the mysterious light was coming from. ;)

Vowel of the Week: short “i” and y (as a vowel sound) (Click the letters for a video.)

Reading Focus: “HOW TO” BOOKS

Book of the Week: “How to Read a Story” by Kate Messner

Silly “How To’s”:

This Week’s Writing Focus: “How To” (1st - 3rd)

Use your writing to teach others how to do something you like to do or something you do well. Watch the instruction videos and follow each stage of the writing process. Below is a suggested calendar for each step, but feel free to write at a pace that works best for you.

Monday: Watch the Brainstorming Video and map out your ideas. Watch the introduction video and begin writing your introduction.

Tuesday: Watch the Steps Video. Write your steps.

Wednesday: Watch the Revision Video. Revise your work.

Thursday: Watch the Closing Video. Write your closing.

Friday: Share your writing with someone!

BREAK ACTIVITIES

Movement Break:

Banana, Banana Meatball - GoNoodle

Trolls: Can’t Stop The Feeling - GoNoodle

ART

This Week’s Art Project: “How to Draw Funny Popcorn”

 

SCIENCE CORNER

A special “Thank You” to the Auburn University College of Engineering for sending out science project ideas to alum families. Click the links below to see three different science projects that can easily be done at home.

SCIENCE PROJECTS courtesy of Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering:

“There’s science all around us!
Check out how families, from Alabama and Texas are using creative means of engaging their children in science lessons at home.”

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:

If you have any questions, comments, or resources to share, please use the form below.

Community Classroom (Week of April 12th - 18th)

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

This Week’s Motivational Video: “What I Am” - Sesame Street & Will.i.am

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

Word of the Week: UNIQUE (Click word for definition.)

Watch “What Makes You Special” video

MATH

Numbers of the Week: 8, 9, 89

PreK-K:

  1. Review the value of numerals 8 and 9. Click the numerals a video on each.

  2. Write the numerals of the week (8 and 9). Draw a picture to show HOW MUCH each numeral is worth. (Example: 2** 7 $$$$$$$)

  3. Click here for addition and subtraction video.

K-1st:

  1. Click here for addition and subtraction video.

  2. Solve the following:

    • 4+4=

    • 4+5=

    • 2+6=

    • 3+6=

    • 1+8=

    • 2+7=

  3. REVIEW & CONTINUED PRACTICE: Click here for and addition and here for subtraction worksheet. (Use homemade counters, like cereal or toys to help add and subtract. Start with simple addition worksheets and move on to the more complex worksheets. It’s okay if you don’t finish them all this week!!)

2nd - 3rd:

  1. Find as many ways as possible to make the number 89. (Example 89: 10 x 9 -1 or 90-1 or 80 +9).

  2. Review multiplication facts. Click the number for multiplication fact review: 8’s and 9’s. (Additional skip counting video for 8’s and 9’s.)

  3. Write out multiplication facts for 8’s and 9’s

  4. REVIEW/CONTINUED PRACTICE:

LANGUAGE & READING

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

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: Find three items that begin with each of the letters of the week. Use them in a sentence. (Example: Ll is for lamp. Turn on the lamp.)

2nd - 3rd: Find three items that begin with each letter of the week. List three adjectives (describing words) for each item. Use one pair of words in a sentence. (Example: L is for light. My three adjectives are bright lamp, dim light, mysterious light. My sentences is: He was trying to find out where the mysterious light was coming from. ;)

Vowel of the Week: “Short o” (Click here for “short o” song.”)

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

2nd - 3rd: Write 3 sentences that contain a word that contains the short o. (Example: Jan has a pet frog.)

Syllables: Review the syllable videos: Identifying Syllables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7DY2lgJlU; Months of the Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSl-SbVz2oA

  • How many syllables are in each your family members' names? (Clap out the sounds if it helps.)

Reading Focus: CHARACTER TRAITS

  1. Watch lesson on characters. Click here for video.

  2. Watch lesson on describing characters. Click here for video.

  3. 2nd - 3rd grade: Review the list of character traits and a practice activity. Click here for free list on. (*Parents see note on resource list for more information about the source. #)

Book of the Week: Elmer by David McKee (Click the title to hear the story.)

  1. Draw and label the CHARACTERS in the story.

  2. Draw a picture of Elmer. Around the picture, list some character traits about Elmer.

  3. Write one to three sentences explaining what makes Elmer unique. (Sample sentence: I know Elmer is unique because…”)

More Practice: Listen/Read the following stories. Identify the main character. Identify his/her character traits. Explain what makes him/her unique.

This Week’s Writing Focus: Descriptive Writing/Using Adjectives (Describing Words)

  1. Watch adjective video:

  2. Write an adjective that describes each word below.

    • rock

    • book

    • boy

    • girl

    • pizza

    • cookie

    • car

    • bus

    • movie

    • story

    • sink

  3. Click here for free adjective worksheets for more practice.

  4. For review a from last week, click on each word to watch videos: Sentence video, Punctuation, Capitalization, and Quotation Marks.

Writing Assignments:

PreK-K: Draw a picture of yourself. Add details to your picture that give more information about yourself (hair style, favorite outfit, eye color, etc.) Around the picture of yourself, draw things you like or show things you like to do.

1st - 3rd:

Draw

  • Draw a detailed picture of yourself. Add details to your picture that give more information about yourself (hair style, favorite outfit, eye color, etc.)

  • Draw yourself doing something you are enjoy doing.

  • Draw yourself in your favorite place to go.

  • Draw five of your favorite things (can be food, toys, books, etc.)

Write SEVEN OR MORE SENTENCES about yourself. Include at least one thing that makes you unique. Start your writing off by introducing yourself. Include 5 ADJECTIVES (describing words) in your writing. They don’t all have to be in the same sentences. Some sample sentence starters that you can include in your writing are:

  • My name is ______________.

  • I am ___ years old.

  • I have ____ brothers and ____sisters.

  • I like…

  • I like to…

  • I do not like…

  • I sometimes worry about…

  • I feel sad when…

  • I feel happy when…

  • I am good at…

  • One day, I would like to…

  • I am unique because…

BREAK ACTIVITIES

Brain Break: Check out these Hidden Picture Activities

Movement Break:

  1. “I Get Loose” by Koo Koo Kangaroo/GoNoodle

  2. ABC Movement with Usher and Sesame Street

ART

This Week’s Art Project: Making Elmer

How to Draw an elephant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYCh0lre-Cw

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:

 

If you have any questions, comments, or resources to share, please use the form below.

Community Classroom (Week of April 6th - 10th)

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

This Week’s Motivational Video: How to Change the World (a work in progress) by Kid President

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

Word of the Week: Entrepreneur

Listen to: What Does it Mean to be an Entrepreneur? by Rana DiOrio and Emma D. Dryden Illustrated by Ken Min (Click here to hear the story.) In your own words, what does it means to be an entrepreneur?

MATH

Numbers of the Week: 6, 7, 67

PreK-K:

  1. Review the value of numerals 6 and 7. Click the numerals for number of the day video 6 and 7.

  2. Write the numerals of the week (6 and 7). Draw a picture to show HOW MUCH each numeral is worth. (Example: 2** 7 $$$$$$$)

  3. Click here for addition and subtraction video.

K-1st:

  1. Click here for addition and subtraction video.

  2. Click here for and addition and here for subtraction worksheet. (Use homemade counters, like cereal or toys to help add and subtract. Start with simple addition worksheets and move on to the more complex worksheets. It’s okay if you don’t finish them all this week!!)

2nd - 3rd:

  1. Find as many ways as possible to make the number 67. (Example 67: 10 x 6 +7 or 70-3 or 60 + 7).

  2. Review multiplication facts. Click the number for multiplication fact review: 6’s and 7’s. Click here for skip counting by 7.

  3. Write out multiplication facts for 6’s and 7’s

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

  5. Multiplication worksheets

LANGUAGE & READING

Letters of the Week: Hh, Pp, Yy (Click each letter for a video.)

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: Find three items that begin with each of the letters of the week. Use them in a sentence. (Example: H is for hand. My hand has five fingers.)

2nd - 3rd: Find three items that begin with each letter of the week. List three adjectives (describing words) for each item. Use one pair of words in a sentence. (Example: H is for hand. My three adjectives are brown hand, ashy hand, smooth hand; My sentences is: She put lotion on her hand because it was ashy.

Vowel of the Week: “Short u”

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

Syllables: Review the syllable videos.

  1. Identifying Syllables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7DY2lgJlU;

  2. Months of the Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSl-SbVz2oA

Reading Focus: Problem & Solution (Click here for problem and solution mini-lesson.)

Book of the Week: Prudy’s Problem and How She Solved It by Cary Armstrong-Ellis

  1. Draw and label the Main CHARACTER in the story. (Who was the story mostly about?)

  2. What was her PROBLEM? (Draw a picture/Write about the PROBLEM.)

  3. What was the SOLUTION to Prudy’s problem?

More Practice: Listen/Read the following stories. Identify the problem(s) and solution(s) in each story. (Click on the title for the video.)

Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

This Week’s Writing Focus: Capitalization and Punctuation

K: Watch the Sentence video. Write three sentences about yourself. Be sure to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. Don’t worry about spelling! Try your best to sound out the words.

1st - 3rd: Watch the following three videos: Punctuation, Capitalization, and Quotation Marks. Fix the sentences below:

  • yesterday was sunday

  • what day will it be tomorrow

  • don’t forget to clean your room, said dad.

  • i just won four MILLION dollars

  • who is that

Writing Assignments:

Problem Solving (Choose a scenario below. Draw a picture and write about how you could help solve the problem.)

PreK-K Scenarios:

  1. During snack time, you notice a friend does not have anything to eat.

  2. You notice a friend crying on the playground.

  3. Your mother can’t find her keys.

1st - 3rd Scenarios:

  1. Your brother or sister is crying in his/her room.

  2. You notice a lot of trash on the ground around your neighborhood.

  3. There are only two cookies left, but four kids want a cookie.

  4. Free Choice (Pick a problem you notice in the world and write a solution for it.)

BREAK ACTIVITIES

Brain Break: Check out these Hidden Picture Activities

Movement Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea4TVg0_8Dk

ART

This Week’s Art Project: PERSPECTIVE

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZD8BjTK8dE;

  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFNRxfaCKLw (3rd grade)

  3. EASY Cityscape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v239Q_Ljn7c

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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!

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If you have any questions, comments, or resources to share, please use the form below.

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

If you have questions, comments, or resources you’d like to share, please submit them using the form below.

Community Classroom (Week of March 23 - March 27)

Letters of the Week: Mm, Ss, Zz (Click each letter for a video.)

Assignment (preK-1st): Find items around your home, in a book, or outside that begin or end with one of the letters of the week.

Numbers of the Week: 2 and 3 For 1st and above, your number for the week is 23.

Assignment (preK - K): (Number 2) (Number 3) (Click each numeral for a video.) Write the numerals of the week (2 and 3). Draw a picture to show HOW MUCH each numeral is worth. (Example: 4 **** 7 $$$$$$$)

Assignment (1st - 3rd grade): Find as many ways as possible to make the number of the day. (Example 35: 10+15, 36-1, 7 X 5)

Assignment (2nd and 3rd grade): Click here for 2’s multiplication facts. Click here fore 3’s multiplication fact. Write out multiplication facts for 2’s and 3’s

Vowel of the Week: “Short a” (Click here for short vowel song.) (Click here for blending “short a” video).

Assignment: Draw a picture or write the word for three things that have the “short a” sound as the MIDDLE sound. (For example: cAt)

Word of the Week: COURAGE (Click the word of the week for video on courage.)

Assignment (K-3): Write a journal entry/Draw a picture about how you can show courage.

Assignment (2nd - 3rd): Create a story about a character who shows COURAGE. Be sure that your story has a Beginning, Middle, and End.

Book of the Week: “One” by Kathryn Otoshi (Click Link for Read Aloud.)

Assignment: In “One,” the characters are colors and numbers. List the characters in the story.

This Week’s Art Project: Draw a COURAGEOUS lion. (Click here for art tutorial.)

This Weeks Writing Assignments:

  1. Check out these Daily Affirmations: Click here Say the positive affirmations. Choose one of the affirmations. Illustrate and/or write about how you can demonstrate the affirmation you chose.

  2. Courage Journal Entry

(We’ll be working on editing our writing next week! Don’t forget to begin each sentence with a capital letter and end each sentence with a punctuation mark. Click on “capital letter” or “punctuation mark” if you need a review.)

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 @piecesofjam #communityclassroomw/ZoraBea I’ll pick one or two to post and celebrate!

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

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