This month we will have a spring focus to our learning.
(we actually started Feb 28th)
Bugs, Bees, and the Lifecycle of Butterfly,
We will be working through as much of Spring Break as possible to be able to end at the end of the first week of June. We will have company for 2 weeks - but hope to be able to work on field trips and PE & social skills during that time.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Explode the code:
Lesson 8 Review Lesson (8pages)
*review of "silent e words", digraph "-ck", "-ng", "sh", "ch", "-ith", "wh", "th"
Lesson 9 (8 pages)
*vowel diagraph "ee"
Lesson 10 (8 pages)
*vowel diagraph "ea"
Lesson 11 (8pages)
*vowel diagraph "ay"
Worksheets:
Unscramble Spring words (egg, rain, robin, grass, tulip, bloom, umbrella, butterfly, flower, rainbow)
Match the spring picture to the spring word
Spring Alphabet code
Caterpillar - glue words onto body in ABC order. 2 pages.
IPAD:
*Reading Eggs Game
Penpal -
Wrote a letter to penpal in Cambodia
Recieved a letter back from Cambodia
Wrote a response back to Cambodia
FINE ARTS:
Dance: - done in term 1 with our Christmas Concert
Big A created her own costume - with a tensor bandage - and made up a few fun songs & dances.
Drama:
Big A does mini plays at kids club Wed night - they take turns acting out their Bible Story each week.
Music:
4 hour Violin
4 hour Bakerview Choir
2 hour Northview Choir & The performance at the HEAT hockey game Sunday March 9th.
Art:
The girls enjoyed creating butterflies and spiders out of coffee filters, clothes pins and pipecleaners.
Big A drew over 20 pictures for all the teachers and volunteers at Music Academy.
Big A drew me a beautiful picture of my favorite daisy, and a note that made me cry.
(not sure if you can read it - but it says: " you chose me as youer child - you are the best mom in the world - i love you")
HEALTH & CAREER:
We are learning about chemicals, and dyes in our food and making changes to our diet.
Well - week 1 dye, chemical free went quite well - saw changes in little A's behavior. Still playing with diets & supplements, and now Epsom Salt bath times. The baths seem to really be helping with sleeping more (less wake times during the night), and less leg pains.
MATHEMATICS:
Jump Math:
*3pages on Adding Money
(sometimes confuses nickels & quarters)
*Fractions. 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5
*comparing fractions
*adding fractions
*intro to multiplication
*5 pages of multiplication
Game: Hi Ho Cherry O
IPAD:
Math Matteer (rocketship game - play games & earn fake money to build rocket ship)
Missions:
*Numbers
*less than 100 (27 / 27)
*Time (24/24) (4/4)
Worksheet:
*color by number Butterfly picture
*4 worksheets of counting by 10's (3, 13... 4, 14...6, 16... etc)
PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
Week #1 (March 2-8)
15 mins mini trampoline
10 mins balance buckets
20 min neighborhood walk
1 hour swimming
*head was completely under water, and swam under water for a short distance
*teacher poured water directly onto her head - she had no problems with this
*she jumped into the deep end without a life jacket (teacher was there to catch and encourage her)
1 hour OT time
1 hour gymnastics
Week #2 (March 9-15)
45 mins swimming
1 hour gymnastics
1 hour OT
1 hour at Grant Park (love this playground!!)
1 hour at Mill Lake Park
20 mins gym games at Kids Club
30 mins Mill Lake Park
*Was only able to swing one bar on the monkey bars. – not sure if she lost her drive or if it was too hard; we will practice more often now that it is sunny outside!
Week #3 (March 16 - 22)
30 mins neighborhood walk
Week #4 (March 23 - 29)
1.5 hour Walk to Mill Lake and Play at Mill Lake.
*with ball & friend - kicking & throwing & catching
*climing & running & jumping & swinging
1 hour McDonalds Playplace
*climbing, running, sliding
SCIENCE:
our focus this month is on the changing of season to spring, weather, bugs, and the lifecycle of the butterfly.
1) Spring weather & changes in the environment:
Book read: Just a Rainy day. by Mercer Mayer
Book read: Rain. by Marion Dane Bauer
Book read: Spring. by Sian Smith
Book read: The Tiny Seed. by Eric Carle
Book read: Spring, an Alphabet Acrosti. by Steven Schnur
Book read: Spring Surprises. by Anne Jane Hays
Book read: Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit ( a book of changing seasons). by Il Sung Na
Book read: and then it's spring. by Julie Fogliano
DVD:
Guess with Jess - Spring Surprise
*Jess and friends explore spring - they explore caterpillar lifecycle, and water evaporation, and other spring fun
2) Bugs:
Book read: Bees. by Deborah Hodge (a Denver Museum of Nature and Science Book)
Book read: The Bumblebee Queen. by April Pulley Sayre
Book read: Inch by Inch. by Leo Lionni
3) Lifecycle of the Butterfly:
Book read: Butterfly Garden. by Margaret McNamara
Book read: Waiting for wings. by Lois Ehlert
Book read: From Caterpillar to Butterfly. by Dr Gerald Legg
Book read: My , oh my - a Butterfly. by Tish Rabe
Book read: Tadpole Promise. by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
DVD:
A Future for Frogs. featuring the Atlanta botanical garden.
"Kids learn the importance of frogs and toads to healthy ecosystems and to human health as well. The adaptations of these incredible amphibians to their environment is showcased through brilliant photography and video of endangered frog species."
"Bonehead delivers a "you have power" message to kids with practical suggestions on what they can do to protect amphibians and support "endagered species captive breeding programs" at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and local zoos and aquariums."
PLAY:
*Big A and Little A enjoyed playing with little bug, butterfly, and frog toys.
*Played with Human Body Magnet Puzzle Game
SOCIALS:
This month Big A will be working through 2 books:
1) Canada is for Kids - this is a colouring book that has educational facts about Canada printed at the bottom of each page to make learning about Canada more fun.
*Colored Title Page of Maple Leaf
2) My World in Maps - this book has a mapping focus. While using this book Big A will learn mapping skils such as "shape, grids, direction and symbols".
*pg4 - campares shapes from a side view, bird's eye view, and top view.
*pg 5 -Recognizes shapes of objects from above (lake, river, house, hill...)
*pg 6 -Differentiates between landforms and water bodies
*pg 7 -Application: identifies landforms and water bodies in a picture.
*pg8 - Identifies map symbols and makes a map key.
*pg9 - Uses a key to interpret symbols and follow a story.
*pg10 - Uses a key to identify different features a long a route.
*pg 11 - Uses a key to follow a route.
*pg 12 - Uses a map grid to locate objects.
*pg13 - Uses a compass direction to describe a position.
*pg 14 - Uses a grid and compass direction to follow a path and identify position.
*pg 15 - Uses a grid and compass direction to locate objects.
THERAPIES & SUPPORTS:
Wed March 5 - 1 hour Occupational Therapy
Wed March 12 - 1 hour Occupational Therapy
- Miss Caylee will be taking over for Miss Victoria – connected well with her today
- great balancing
- loves to wear the green stretch suit and to play with shaving cream
Friday March, 14th - Social Skills Class. Sounds like it was a great class :) (2hours)
*Theraputty
*Water bead play (and put frogs in to create a habitat)
*Read stories while enjoying the pressures of sitting in a bucket, and having her sister rub her feet...
Little A is learning that if she doesn't sit nice on her chair... that she will fall off and cut her eye and have to go to the hospital.. again.. she enjoys giving mommy grey hairs!
(we actually started Feb 28th)
Bugs, Bees, and the Lifecycle of Butterfly,
We will be working through as much of Spring Break as possible to be able to end at the end of the first week of June. We will have company for 2 weeks - but hope to be able to work on field trips and PE & social skills during that time.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Explode the code:
Lesson 8 Review Lesson (8pages)
*review of "silent e words", digraph "-ck", "-ng", "sh", "ch", "-ith", "wh", "th"
Lesson 9 (8 pages)
*vowel diagraph "ee"
Lesson 10 (8 pages)
*vowel diagraph "ea"
Lesson 11 (8pages)
*vowel diagraph "ay"
Worksheets:
Unscramble Spring words (egg, rain, robin, grass, tulip, bloom, umbrella, butterfly, flower, rainbow)
Match the spring picture to the spring word
Spring Alphabet code
Caterpillar - glue words onto body in ABC order. 2 pages.
IPAD:
*Reading Eggs Game
Penpal -
Wrote a letter to penpal in Cambodia
Recieved a letter back from Cambodia
Wrote a response back to Cambodia
Very excited; have asked her to write a response on her own this week and we will edit it next week!
-Edited what she wrote at home and added a few more comments and questions
-She also drew a picture of her doll Emma
-Also sent a picture of her with her doll and one with Avi along with her letter!
-Edited what she wrote at home and added a few more comments and questions
-She also drew a picture of her doll Emma
-Also sent a picture of her with her doll and one with Avi along with her letter!
Personal dictionary
*Started a book with a page for each letter
*Words included that she finds difficult – encouraging her to add words that she comes across when she is reading that she doesn’t know
*Started a book with a page for each letter
*Words included that she finds difficult – encouraging her to add words that she comes across when she is reading that she doesn’t know
FINE ARTS:
Dance: - done in term 1 with our Christmas Concert
Big A created her own costume - with a tensor bandage - and made up a few fun songs & dances.
Drama:
Big A does mini plays at kids club Wed night - they take turns acting out their Bible Story each week.
Music:
4 hour Violin
4 hour Bakerview Choir
2 hour Northview Choir & The performance at the HEAT hockey game Sunday March 9th.
Art:
The girls enjoyed creating butterflies and spiders out of coffee filters, clothes pins and pipecleaners.
Big A drew over 20 pictures for all the teachers and volunteers at Music Academy.
Big A drew me a beautiful picture of my favorite daisy, and a note that made me cry.
HEALTH & CAREER:
We are learning about chemicals, and dyes in our food and making changes to our diet.
Well - week 1 dye, chemical free went quite well - saw changes in little A's behavior. Still playing with diets & supplements, and now Epsom Salt bath times. The baths seem to really be helping with sleeping more (less wake times during the night), and less leg pains.
MATHEMATICS:
Jump Math:
*3pages on Adding Money
(sometimes confuses nickels & quarters)
*Fractions. 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5
*comparing fractions
*adding fractions
*intro to multiplication
*5 pages of multiplication
Game: Hi Ho Cherry O
IPAD:
Math Matteer (rocketship game - play games & earn fake money to build rocket ship)
Missions:
*Numbers
*less than 100 (27 / 27)
*Time (24/24) (4/4)
Worksheet:
*color by number Butterfly picture
*4 worksheets of counting by 10's (3, 13... 4, 14...6, 16... etc)
PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
Week #1 (March 2-8)
15 mins mini trampoline
10 mins balance buckets
20 min neighborhood walk
1 hour swimming
*head was completely under water, and swam under water for a short distance
*teacher poured water directly onto her head - she had no problems with this
*she jumped into the deep end without a life jacket (teacher was there to catch and encourage her)
1 hour OT time
1 hour gymnastics
Week #2 (March 9-15)
45 mins swimming
1 hour gymnastics
1 hour OT
1 hour at Grant Park (love this playground!!)
1 hour at Mill Lake Park
20 mins gym games at Kids Club
30 mins Mill Lake Park
*Was only able to swing one bar on the monkey bars. – not sure if she lost her drive or if it was too hard; we will practice more often now that it is sunny outside!
Week #3 (March 16 - 22)
30 mins neighborhood walk
Week #4 (March 23 - 29)
1.5 hour Walk to Mill Lake and Play at Mill Lake.
*with ball & friend - kicking & throwing & catching
*climing & running & jumping & swinging
1 hour McDonalds Playplace
*climbing, running, sliding
SCIENCE:
our focus this month is on the changing of season to spring, weather, bugs, and the lifecycle of the butterfly.
1) Spring weather & changes in the environment:
Book read: Just a Rainy day. by Mercer Mayer
Book read: Rain. by Marion Dane Bauer
Book read: Spring. by Sian Smith
Book read: The Tiny Seed. by Eric Carle
Book read: Spring, an Alphabet Acrosti. by Steven Schnur
Book read: Spring Surprises. by Anne Jane Hays
Book read: Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit ( a book of changing seasons). by Il Sung Na
Book read: and then it's spring. by Julie Fogliano
DVD:
Guess with Jess - Spring Surprise
*Jess and friends explore spring - they explore caterpillar lifecycle, and water evaporation, and other spring fun
2) Bugs:
Book read: Bees. by Deborah Hodge (a Denver Museum of Nature and Science Book)
Book read: The Bumblebee Queen. by April Pulley Sayre
Book read: Inch by Inch. by Leo Lionni
3) Lifecycle of the Butterfly:
Book read: Butterfly Garden. by Margaret McNamara
Book read: Waiting for wings. by Lois Ehlert
Book read: From Caterpillar to Butterfly. by Dr Gerald Legg
Book read: My , oh my - a Butterfly. by Tish Rabe
DVD:
Bill Nye The Science Guy : Lifecycles
*"Bill Nye explains the life cycles and shows us why they are similar in many different living things."
worksheet:
Lifecycle of a butterfly worksheet.
*cut & paste
*wrote 4 sentences about the 4 stages. (she is remembering to write the periods at the end of sentences)
4) Lifecycle of the Frog:worksheet:
Lifecycle of a butterfly worksheet.
*cut & paste
*wrote 4 sentences about the 4 stages. (she is remembering to write the periods at the end of sentences)
Book read: Tadpole Promise. by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
DVD:
A Future for Frogs. featuring the Atlanta botanical garden.
"Kids learn the importance of frogs and toads to healthy ecosystems and to human health as well. The adaptations of these incredible amphibians to their environment is showcased through brilliant photography and video of endangered frog species."
"Bonehead delivers a "you have power" message to kids with practical suggestions on what they can do to protect amphibians and support "endagered species captive breeding programs" at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and local zoos and aquariums."
PLAY:
*Big A and Little A enjoyed playing with little bug, butterfly, and frog toys.
*Played with Human Body Magnet Puzzle Game
Field Trip:
HONEYBEE CENTER
*explored the bug room & played bug learning games
*listened and interacted with bug presentation
*investigated a live honey bee box & found the queen bee
*watched a movie about honey bees and the health benefits of honey
HONEYBEE CENTER
*explored the bug room & played bug learning games
*listened and interacted with bug presentation
*investigated a live honey bee box & found the queen bee
*watched a movie about honey bees and the health benefits of honey
This month Big A will be working through 2 books:
1) Canada is for Kids - this is a colouring book that has educational facts about Canada printed at the bottom of each page to make learning about Canada more fun.
*Colored Title Page of Maple Leaf
2) My World in Maps - this book has a mapping focus. While using this book Big A will learn mapping skils such as "shape, grids, direction and symbols".
*pg4 - campares shapes from a side view, bird's eye view, and top view.
*pg 5 -Recognizes shapes of objects from above (lake, river, house, hill...)
*pg 6 -Differentiates between landforms and water bodies
*pg 7 -Application: identifies landforms and water bodies in a picture.
*pg8 - Identifies map symbols and makes a map key.
*pg9 - Uses a key to interpret symbols and follow a story.
*pg10 - Uses a key to identify different features a long a route.
*pg 11 - Uses a key to follow a route.
*pg 12 - Uses a map grid to locate objects.
*pg13 - Uses a compass direction to describe a position.
*pg 14 - Uses a grid and compass direction to follow a path and identify position.
*pg 15 - Uses a grid and compass direction to locate objects.
THERAPIES & SUPPORTS:
Wed March 5 - 1 hour Occupational Therapy
Wed March 12 - 1 hour Occupational Therapy
- Miss Caylee will be taking over for Miss Victoria – connected well with her today
- great balancing
- loves to wear the green stretch suit and to play with shaving cream
Friday March, 14th - Social Skills Class. Sounds like it was a great class :) (2hours)
*Water bead play (and put frogs in to create a habitat)
*Read stories while enjoying the pressures of sitting in a bucket, and having her sister rub her feet...
Little A is learning that if she doesn't sit nice on her chair... that she will fall off and cut her eye and have to go to the hospital.. again.. she enjoys giving mommy grey hairs!
Foot stretches
-
Right foot is a lot stiffer
Weekly Report for Aliyah Regehr for
March 9, 2014
Explode the Code – 21 pages – 100% - understands very well (book almost done)
-
“o” (Long o) sound
-
Review
Comparing caterpillar worksheet
-adding and coloring <10> and
= 10
Spelling
-Day 1 – 15/20
- new words out of
explode the code
-Day 2 – 11/20
- words she didn’t know
yesterday (got 3/5) and 16 sight words from explode the code
My World in Maps – 8 pages – no problems
-
Globe, maps, compass directions
-
Continents -7 and oceans – 4
-
Cut and paste together parts of a map
-
Recognizing continents
-
Identify direction and continents
-
Interpret a map
-
Matching pictures to different places in Canada
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