Happy Mother's Day!

Mother's Day cards

How do you make a Mother's Day craft remotely?! Today in the Google Meet we drew vases for Mother's Day cards and watched a demonstration of how to glue real flowers onto the card. Your child might be out collecting flowers for the card this weekend!

We are enjoying our Fairy Tale unit and read Beauty and the Beast. We also read two stories about a knight: Sir Small and the Dragonfly and Good Night, Good Knight. Both of these are a series so it will be fun to read more adventures starring these knights. 

Fun read-alouds

Poetry is our new writing genre- this differs tremendously from the informational non-fiction writing we had been doing. Using our five senses to describe, trying rhyme, and learning about two types of poems in particular, shape poems and acrostic poems, were the focus this week.

Star shaped poem

A thunder storm cloud poem

Mother's Day poem

Trying out some rhyming

Bird drawing

Science included classifying animals into reptiles, mammals, birds, fish, insects, and amphibians. The kids made a spiral snake craft and drew birds of their own imagination. Our Google Meets had lots of additional resource links and online books that helped us explore this even more thoroughly. On to Earth and Space next week!

Spiral snake

Got any change? We have been counting coins all week as well as learning about how they are made and ways to spend, save, and give. Our online links included interactive activities of counting coins and matching them to items to buy. The main focus is mastering identifying coins, knowing the value of each, and being able to count like coins and some mixed coins. Some of the counting was a bit advanced and is considered more exposure than mastery as they will continue this in 2nd grade. 

We wrapped up symbols of the USA, again with many assigned readings in the Epic site. One activity the kids enjoyed was making up clues for a symbol for friends to guess. We will share more of those next week. Learning to draw the Statue of Liberty was a challenge, but after watching the How-To on Epic we had some awesome results!

Wow! Nice drawing!

Guess the USA symbol

Did you guess Mt. Rushmore?

I am always amazed at how many activities families come up with during this stay-at-home scenario! Their Monday journal entries tell about picnics, backyard games, bike riding, walks, cooking, crafts, field day, water balloons, and projects. Evan made a wind detector outside and wrote about it, Matthew's family invented  field day fun, Nathaniel's family went on a picnic, and loads of families played and exercised together!

The wind detector project

Field Day

A family picnic

Some of the kids type or dictate, some print out and write their journals, and some use their own paper- all are wonderful choices, and we love reading them aloud during our Meets. Sharing the work validates each child's efforts and gives each other ideas as well!
Just a reminder on turning in -I can find your work online if you don't turn it in, but here is a quick how-to! After completing the assignment, click out of it. Then you will see VIEW assignment at the bottom. Click that and you will see the option to TURN IN. After clicking, the TURN IN word pops up again- click and you are good to go!

The logistics of the technology has been challenging- thank you for persevering! As always I am so grateful for the time, energy, patience, and assistance that you provide as they work on their google assignments- I know there are many competing things on your plate! Due to their age it is hard for them to be completely independent, however I have noticed many are feeling more confident with the steps once started! Their generation will surge ahead in tech!

Have a wonderful weekend and Mom's, enjoy your day! Kids, be loving and helpful to your moms that love you so much!

Happy Mother's Day,
Mrs. Dagley