Author: KAiken

Thursday April 9

Hi everyone! I hope your first week of online learning went well.  I love seeing all the thing the children have been doing.  All the families are doing such a great job! All the children have smiling faces and look like they are enjoying family time.  My family is also enjoying the family time. Our regular life is so face paced, running from rink to rink, place to place, that this down time is so different for us!!

We are coming up to a long weekend to celebrate Easter if you do in your family.  I will be back on Tuesday with some new activities to do.  I did hear that The Easter Bunny is considered essential today so that is good news for those families he visits!

The Public Schools Branch is offering families a basic school supply package including paper, pencils, and scribblers for any student or parent who may not have access to these materials at this time. Families are asked to contact the Support for Families line at 902-368-5155 or supportforfamilies@edu.pe.ca for further information and assistance.

Here is my video from today:

  1. Fundations Letters:  Print the upper and Lowercase letters that we reviewed
  2. Do the read and spot game: Read and Spot 1
  3. Read the Poem: find the rhyming words and the word patterns Rain Poem
  4. Clap the Syllables: Rainbow (2), weather (2), cloud (1), umbrella (3), snowstorm (2), outside (2). What about some of the household items? Your families names?
  5. Puddle Walk: Find some puddles outside. Measure them with your boots.  How long are they? How deep are they?
  6. Singing in the Rain: Singing in the Rain
  7. Art:Coffee Filter Umbrella
  8. Cloud Dough: cloud dough
  9. Video: Sam’s New Boots

Enjoy and have a great long weekend!

 

Wednesday April 8

Hello Parents!

I love all the pictures and stories that I am seeing and hearing from everyone!  Getting a glimpse at the children’s faces is so nice but makes me miss them all the more.  Today’s videos were a little hard to get, our house seemed to be noisier than usual today…must be the full moon!! So don’t mind some of the noise you might hear…3 kids and 3 dogs can sometimes be noisy!

I am also trying very hard to remember to add all the resources and videos I talk about so please let me know if I’ve missed anything or if there is something more you’d like to see 🙂

Here is my video:

 

  1. Fundations Letters: Practice printing the upper and lower case letters of the 5 letters we reviewed today.
  2. Listen to my story:  If You Find a Rock
  3. Write about finding your favourite Rock (see the sheet on extras page or use your own paper) RockWritingPaper
  4. Listen to the song: Something in my Shoe  or this one Something in my Shoe – Raffi  I loved this song when I was a girl 🙂
  5. Rock and Roll Math: Collect 10 rocks, roll a dice and build a set with the number you rolled. Online Dice
  6. Read a book: Raz-Kids, Epic Books, or TumbleBooks
  7. Handprint Bunny: Handprint Bunny
  8. Peep and the Big World video: Quack and the Very Big Rock
  9. Jello Playdough: Playdough Recipe

Enjoy!

 

Tuesday April 7

Good morning!

Here is our learning from home activities! I just want to remind you all to not add stress to your life by trying to accomplish more than you can handle 🙂 Last night, I added a great article that shows 16 everyday activities that count as learning.  Things like baking, folding laundry, playing board games and cards.  They cover outcomes that we do at school.

Here is my video for today:

  1. Practice 5 letters of Fundations: Practice printing the uppercase and the lowercase of all 5 letters. (See video on Fundations page on the menu)
  2. Read the Poem: It’s Spring.  Find the rhyming words. Can you think of other words that rhyme?
  3. Down By the Bay song: Down By the Bay
  4. Draw 4 things from the poem or something you see or find in spring and write the words for them.  If you want to, write a sentence to go with your picture 🙂
  5. Listen to the Spring movement song: Spring Movement Song
  6. Talk a rock walk. Find 10 rocks. Sort them by the way they are alike.  Tell someone how you sorted them. Ask them if they would sort them different?
  7. Paint your rocks.  Use the rocks that you gathered and paint them.  Take another walk and leave the rocks for others to find. (See recipe page for homemade paint)
  8. Read a book! Try Raz-Kids-kids, Epic Books, or Tumble Books or one from home.
  9. Spring Video: Stella and Sam: Signs of Spring

Enjoy! Mrs. Aiken

Menu Pages

Hey Everyone! I hope you found the learning for today!

I have been posting additional resources in the menu pages each day. I just put the first chapter of book 6 under the Magic Treehouse Page. If you can’t find something please let me know.

I have added the recipes and new drawing club under their specific pages. I figure it will be easier to find the link if you want to refer back to them later.

Kelley

Monday April 6 Learning

Hello Parents!
I am going to try and post a video each day of some activities to do with your child to help with home learning.  I am going to give lots of suggestions and activities to do.  I understand that most of you have other children to help learn from home and some of you are working at home as well.  Please pick and choose what you can do without adding stress to your life.  Please send me feedback on the videos this week.  It is all new for me as well as you and your family.  If you don’t have a printer, just improvise with paper from home.  Once again please let me know if there is any materials that you may need to complete home learning.
I believe that I got my menu set up properly now so I can add specific items to specific pages.  That way if you want to go back and do activities later, you can.  It may make it more organized and less difficult to find.
Here are the list of the links that I talked about in the video. I will also post them in the pages that I made. Parents please remember that Youtube can have some commercials on them.  They are not always appropriate for children.  There is a youtube kids channel, I believe that helps to prevent this type of thing.
My Video for today:
Practice 5 letters of Fundations .  Practice printing the uppercase and the lower case of all 5 letters.
Make a spring mind map:  What can you come up with, do you have the same ideas as me, Alexa and Bria?
Read a spring book or watch Welcome back Spring on Youtube. Remember to watch and listen for rhyming words. Welcome Back Spring
Rhyme and Move Song :  Rhyme and Move
Take a number walk .  Look for numbers in your neighbourhood.  Say the number that comes before and the number that comes after the number you find.  If it’s a big number, just use the first number.
Make some binoculars to help with the number walk and spotting signs of spring.
Extra links: 
Kelley

Materials and Supplies

Hello Parents,

As we start this new learning journey next week, I wanted to touch base and see if there was anything you might need for your child to be able to learn from home.

Please send me an email if you do not have:

Pencils, pen

Markers

Crayons

Pencil crayons

Paper

Thanks!