Royal Oak Kindergarten

Kindergarten Weekly Learning Plan

May 18th - 22nd

Opening Comments

Assignments to be handed in via email to your teacher:

Literacy - Animals Around the World: Part 2
Math - Two photos from the Shake and Spill activity

Learning Objectives/ I Can Statements/Areas of Focus

I can use research skills to write my ideas
I can connect letters to their sounds
I can generate words that rhyme
I can measure items
I can use count and recognize numbers

Listen to the weekly read aloud from your teacher (Approx. 30 minutes)

Please feel free to listen to all three stories!

Assigned Learning Tasks

Please complete the following tasks in any order. An hour of learning a day is optimal.

Literacy

Math

Wellness & Play

Animals Around the World: Part 2

(Approx. 30 min)

Part 2 Animals Around the World | Click Here

Learn about your chosen animal. Look at pictures and listen to text to learn about an animal. We will be inviting students to share some of this learning during future Google Meets.

Access National Geographic Kids to find an interesting fact about your animal and its habitat.

National Geographic Kids: Animals | Click Here

Success Criteria:

I can research information by listening and looking at pictures
With help I can write a fact about my animal and my animal’s habitat

Assessment: Submit a photo of your interesting fact and habitat sentences in Google Classroom.

Shake and Spill

Game

(10 minutes per day)

Each day pick a number and place that many items in a cup. Then, draw a large circle to act as a target. This could be on a piece of paper, or you may choose to do this with chalk outside.

Shake the cup and spill it onto the piece of paper with the target. Count how many items land in the target, and how many items land outside.

Practice writing the numbers and saying the number sentence. For example, if 3 land in the target and 7 land outside, you would say:

3 and 7 make 10.

Please pick numbers that will best challenge your child.

Assessment: Submit two photos with number sentences in Google Classroom.

Google Meet: Bring 2 Items that Rhyme

(Approx. 30 min)

Select 2 rhyming words to share with the class. They could be words that rhyme with the ‘at’ or ‘ug' word families. You could also choose any other rhyming word families. The options are endless!

Remember to keep your items hidden until it is your turn to share.

You could:

Draw pictures of your rhyming words
Choose photos from a book
Bring the items
Or a combination of the above

For example:

A bat and a hat rhyme.

Acrostic Name Game

(Approx. 30 mins)

Write your name vertically using sticky notes or a piece of paper.

Search your home to find an item for each letter of your name and place it beside the corresponding letter.

To extend this activity, you may decide to try to write the name of each item using kid printing.

Here is an example for the name “Parker”

Number line: One More

(Approx. 30 mins)

Number Line Lesson | Click Here

Make a number line from 0 to 10. Roll a die to find your starting point then jump one more to the next number. This game can also be played by jumping backward.

For example:

If you roll number 6 you would place a token/block/small item on number 6
Then you would jump/move the token to number 7
If you were jumping backward you would jump to 5

Number Line Template

It’s Not a Box Creations

(Approx. 30 mins)

Listen to the story Not a Box Story | Click Here by Antoinette Portis.

Find an empty box of any shape or size.

What can you turn your box into? Can you use your own body as part of your creation?

The ‘ug’ Family

(Approx. 30 minutes)

Rhyming helps us learn how to read and write words. Listen to the Jack Hartmann Video | Click Here to learn about words in the “ug” family.

Use different letters of the alphabet to create ‘ug’ rhyming words. Create a list of real words and a list of silly words. What is the silliest word you made?

Example:

Real Words	Silly Words
hug dug bug	aug cug stug

Playing with rhyming allows students the opportunity to experiment with different language patterns, building their understanding of how words work.

Measure a Stuffy

(Approx. 30 min)

In this activity you are going to measure the height of a stuffy or toy.

Select the stuffy or toy that you will measure the height of.
Select something that you will be measuring the stuffy or toy with. Whatever you select, must be uniform in size. (ie: blocks, crayons, LEGO pieces).
Using whatever you have chosen to be your unit of measure, determine how tall your stuffy or toy is (ie: My bear is 9 LEGO blocks tall or My dinosaur is 6 crayons tall)

Have fun measuring other toys in your home!

Scavenger Hunt

(Approx. 30 minutes)

Head outside and have fun looking for evidence of spring by trying to complete the scavenger hunt below!

Spring Scavenger Hunt|Click Here

Optional Learning Tasks

Phys Ed - Please visit Ms. Hennick’s Blog for physical education activities.

https://rosphysicaleducationathome.weebly.com/

Music – Please visit Ms. Mann’s Music Blog for a variety of great music activities.

https://royaloakmusic.blogspot.com/

Closing Comments

Please submit Animals Around the World: Part 2 and Shake and Spill (2 photos) through Google Classroom.
Please do not hesitate to be in touch with your classroom teacher by email should you have any questions about the weekly learning plan or for general support.
Teacher emails:

Courtney Sticksl: costicksl@cbe.ab.ca
Melissa Bernard-Dixon: mjbernarddixon@cbe.ab.ca
Kari Sirup: kasirup@cbe.ab.ca

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