Image by Erin Arrowsmith, Cowichan Bay, BC, April 2020
Les Activités Hebdomadaires - Weekly Activities
May 11-15, 2020
1. Literacy:
- Read every day – English and/or French. You can log in here to Je Lis! Je Lis! Littératie, to have French books read aloud to you (login information and password for your child sent to you by email).
- Watch our calendar time and new letter "Vv" video here. You can find the Jolly Phonics printing page for the letter "Vv" here. If you are able to print at home, your child can practice printing lower case “v” and colour the picture.
- Printer-free printing practice: Your child can practice printing "V majuscule" and "v miniscule" (upper and lower case “Vv”) and draw a picture of something that starts with the letter "Vv" on a plain piece of paper (see Virtual Word Wall here; see French words that start with the letter Vv here). You can also practice printing your "Vv"s in a container or salt or sand, or .you can build the letter "Vv" out of toys or natural materials. **Please let Mme. Erin know if you would like to pick up your child's printing book with pages to practice printing our new letters.**
- Rhyme time! Can you say these rhyming words? Can you think of any others? They can be in French, English or nonsense words (like our song, Willoughby Wallaby Woi)
Les Mots de "Vv" et les mots qui riment!
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vache - cache, moustache, fâche, hache, lâche, tache vent, volcan - éléphant, cerf-volant, dent, gant, serpent, diamant voit - noix, trois, doigt, bois, pois, froid, moi, toi, soi, roi, loi, joie, droit |
2. Numeracy:
Number of the Week: 10
Number of the Week: 10
- Ways to make 10: Make your own 10 frame at home from an egg carton! As in my video this week, just cut off the lid and two of the spaces (or print a paper version here). Find 10 small things (e.g. small rocks, Lego, buttons, jelly beans, seeds) in one colour, and 10 small things in another colour. How many ways can you use two colours to make 10? Can you figure out how to make two equal groups? Can you draw a picture of all the ways you came up with to make 10? Challenge: Can you write the number sentences to go with these drawings? e.g. 2+8=10 Challenge #2: How many ways can you make 10 using 3 colours of small things? Challenge #3: How many ways can you make 20 with 2 ten frames?
- Rock, Paper, Number: One of our friends came up with a fun math game at home! With a partner, put both hands behind your backs and say "rock, paper, number!" Then bring your hands out from behind your backs and add up the total number of fingers from both sets of hands "en francais". C'etait très amusant! If adding to 10 is difficult, then variations could be 1) biggest number wins OR 2) smaller number wins. Challenge: Try subtracting the smaller number of fingers in one hand, from the larger number of fingers in the other hand.
- Measure your "pet plant": How much has your seed or plant grown this week? You can measure with something you find around your house (e.g. Lego blocks), or you can measure with a ruler. Write down your measurement in your booklet, and start a graph to keep track of your plant's growth. My bean plants were ready to transplant into dirt this week, and I measured them with unifix cubes. One plant was 4 cubes high, one was 3 cubes high and one was only half a cube high, so I drew what I observed in my plant booklet. I also coloured in 4 squares on my graph to represent that my tallest plant was 4 cubes high.
3. Cross-Curricular Project:
Inquiry question to guide learning this week: How does our community meet our needs and wants?
Inquiry question to guide learning this week: How does our community meet our needs and wants?
Indigenous Connections:
Learning involves recognizing the consequences of one's actions (see First Peoples Principles of Learning here). Questions to Think and Talk About with Your Family:
New Song: Tout ce que je veux (All I really need)
Find a link to the words and tune to this song in French (Charlotte Diamond) or in English (Raffi) here. |
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4. Wellness:
- Try this outdoor mindful scavenger hunt from our school counsellor, Sian, next time you're out for a family walk. Or choose one of the breathing activities that we have used in our class here (bottom of page).
- Play Keep Up! Find a balloon, bouncy ball or badminton racket with a birdie. How long can you keep the balloon or the birdie in the air without it hitting the floor? How many times can you bounce the ball without losing it? Add in some counting practice (en français bien sûr!) and keep trying to beat your personal best. Or try with a partner and cooperate to get your biggest score!
- Make an indoor obstacle course on a rainy day (or an outdoor one if the weather is nice!) . Perhaps you could climb over some pillows, or under a chair. Perhaps you could slither like a snake or walk like a crab for part of the course. When your obstacle course is set up, challenge your family to see who can do it the fastest (and safest!). Can you beat your best time? When you're all done, don't forget to sing the clean up song ("C'est le temps de ramasser," and tidy everything up!
On Friday, send Mme. Erin a photo of your favourite activity this week, along with an email or video telling me about it. You can also try uploading a photo or video of your favourite activity about our community (this week or last week) to your Ed Inform portfolio, along with a self-reflection to answer the following questions (see my email for the week of May 11-15 for more details):
- What did you learn?
- How did it go?
- Where do you think you might go next?