Tuesday, March 31st!

Question for the Week:

What is darkness?

Weekly Foundational Read-Aloud: 

Can't You Sleep Little Bear? by Martin Waddell

The YouTube Link to the weekly Read-Aloud is located:HERE

Questions to ask your child in response to the read-aloud:

• What did Big Bear and Little Bear use to light their cave? 
• What do you use to light the place you live?
•   Why did Big Bear and Little Bear go home when it got dark outside?

Learn at Home activity for today:

Tuesday:

• Breathe. Place a light object (e.g. cotton ball, feather, piece of paper, round pencil, small ball, etc.) on one end of a table and see if you and your child can blow it to the other side. Repeat with other objects of differing weights.

Questions to ask your child:

• What did you observe here/when ____? 
• What did your sense of ____ tell you about ____? 
• What will you try next? 
• I wonder what would happen if ____? 
• How do you know? 
• How could we find out?

Movement Activity:

YouTube: Cosmic Kids Yoga

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

(This link brings you to introduction on the Cosmic Kids homepage.  From there you may choose one of countless yoga videos for your child.

Please choose a different video for each day of the week.)

For additional Music and Movement Activities, please look at Ms. Alma's Blog, located HERE!

I will be calling parents twice a week to check in.  If you would like to share any resources with other families, please let me know and I will add it to the blog!

Some resources that have been shared by parents:

Apps:

• Khan Academy Kids
• ABC Mouse
• TinyBots (one time $2.99 fee)

Websites:

• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
• Miss Megan's Camp Kindergarten (facebook)
• Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (facebook)
• FunBrain
• StarFall
• Time For Kids

Other Useful Resources / Tips / Ideas

Animated Story About Social Distancing

Brain Pop Jr. - Math Games

Scholastic Learn at Home - The website offers multiple days of content including read-alouds, movement activities, STEM activities, drawing activities, building activities, etc.  

One of the parents suggested to set up a free Zoom account and have one family member or friend teach their child something new each day via a Zoom call!

If you have any questions or concerns that are not addressed during our weekly phone calls, please feel free to email me at MrsGonzalezCOVID19@gmail.com

As always, please make sure to read the OLQM school blog for additional updates and information located, HERE!