Monday, April 20th

Updates

• The Learn at Home Packet is still available for pickup at the school from 9am-1pm every day this week.
•  Online Learning will continue until May 15th.

Instructional Theme:

Plants

Question for the Week:

What are plants?

Weekly Foundational Read-Aloud: 

Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner

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

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

• What are some things that happen up in the?

      garden

• What are somethings that happen down in the      

      dirt?

Learn at Home activity for today:

Monday: 

Did you eat any roots/leaves/stems today (for example, potatoes, lettuce or celery)? Talk about the parts of a plant with your child and discuss what kinds of plant they eat.Have your child draw a picture of their favorite plant that they eat.  I would love to see the drawings! Please feel free to text me or email a picture of your child's drawing to MrsGonzalezCOVID19@gmail.com. 

Open ended questions:

• What do you observe here/when ____? 
• What does 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:

Who Let the Letters Out

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:
MarcoPolo
Khan Academy Khan

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.  

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!