April 7, 2020

Dear Parents;

I will  like to inform you that I will be contacting  parents this week. If you have any questions I will be happy to answer them. Also,   you could  pick up your child's package at the school office from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. These are activities will be for your child to do classwork at home. It would be a great idea to acquire the rest of the booklets so that your child can use them for classwork and their summer vacation. As you may know school will en on June 20th, 2020.

Also, I would like to inform the parents that I have been making phone call again to find out how the family is doing, and to help you with your concerns about your child's work. Zoom lesson on 7th, at 11:00 AM, and May 8 at 11:00 AM. I will called a group of parents for tomorrow's conference. The children were divide into four groups. I will let you know your child's group, and when to log into Zoom.

Lessons for May 7, 2020

Pray:  Our Father

Pledge of Allegiance:

• Ask your child what the colors of the flag means : red means courage; white means peace and purity; blue means justice.
• How many stars are in the american flag (50).

Calendar:

Vocabulary Words: mother, move, Mary, miracles, muffins, mittens, monkey, money, mouse

• First, have your child spell May.
• Then ask him for words with initial sound /m/.
• Then ask: How many days we have in a week?   What day are we in? What is the date? (Say day, month, number, year) Example: Today is Thursday , May 7, the year 2020.
• Have the children count forward from 1-10, and from 10 to 1.
• Count in ordinals from 1st- 5th.
• Have your child sing  "There are Seven Days"

Lessons for May 7, 2020

Pray:  Our Father

Pledge of Allegiance:

• Ask your child what the colors of the flag means : red means courage; white means peace and purity; blue means justice.
• How many stars are in the american flag (50).

Calendar:

Vocabulary Words: Mary, mother, Monday, mouse, motorcycle, mosquito, monkey, moon, mask, move 

• First, have your child spell April
• Then ask him for words with initial sound /a/.
• Then ask: How many days we have in a week?   What day are we in? What is the date? (Say day, month, number, year) Example: Today is Thursday,  May 7 the year 2020.
• Have the children count forward from 1-10, and from 10 to 1.
• Count in ordinals from 1st- 5th.
• Have your child sing  "There are Seven Days"

Religion:

Families

Aim: The children will learn:

• To be aware that each of us has a family to whom we belong.
• There are all kinds of families.

Vocabulary Words: family, brother, sister, mother, father

Strategies:

• First talk about the role your family members. Example: They take care of you; they clothe you; feed you; take you to the doctor when you are sick.
• Then show  photographs of your family members, such as mother, father, grandparents, uncles and aunts.
• Then explain that these are your family members , and that your child belongs to that family.
• Then talk about the size of your family and include various generations.
• Then I will distribute Activity Page 11.
• Then have your child draw your family.
• Then ask: How many family members are in our family? What are their job? What job do you have?
• Summarize what we learned.

Phonological Awareness:

Letters X x

Aim:The children will recognize the sound /x/ in words.

Vocabulary Words: excellent, X-ray, fox, box, six, xylophone,

Strategies:

• Firs, introduce the letters X x with Hello Carrie: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt7j9LfQ4V-dnTXxqp9GLqA
• Then ask: What letters are these?(uppercase X and lowercase x) What kind lines do we use to write them? What sound does the letters X and x make? What words in the video have the the X x in? Can you use a words with X x in a sentence?
• Then ask your child to use words with X x  in sentences.
• Then model forming X x with sticks.
• Then have your child practice forming X x with the sticks.

Homework: Have your child practice writing Uppercase X in Handwriting Book P. 62.

Math:

Explore Nonstandard Measurement

Aim: The children will learn to measure and compare the length of classroom objects.

Vocabulary Words: longer, shorter, measure, length, unit

Strategies:

• First, will explain to your child that when we measure length we want to find how long or short an object is.
• Then show him/her an object. Then tell your child that you want o find out the length of the object.
• Then ask your child where should I start measuring the object  from. (From the beginning of the object on the left side to the end of the object on the right side.
• Then ask your child to model measuring the object length using any small objects you have available .
• Then emphasize that the edge of the first object  should line up with the edge of the object and should touch.
• Then explain  that we can use many things to measure objects, such as paper clip, snap cubes, feet, hands, or whole body.
• Then have your child measure other object using different units of measurements> Example: paper clip, beans, or crayons.
• then have your child compare the length of the two objects they measured.
• Then ask: Which object is the longest? Which object is the shortest? What unit of measurement you use?

Story Time: The Story of the Ant Hill

Aim: The children will learn to work as a group to get things done.

Vocabulary Words: aunt hill, work, defend, insects

Strategies: 

• First, tell your child that all members of a family have jobs in order to help the family as a whole.
• Then ask your child what id their job as a family member.
• The tell them that the story they are going to listen to is about ants working together to help their colony.
• Then have your child watch "The Story of the Ant Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuZH7x1qDRU
• Then review the story with your child.
• Then Ask: Who is the story about? What do ants do together? Who was Hercules? What was Hercules job? Did he do his job? Why not? Who found out Hercules did not do his job? What did the ants do when they found out? How did Hercules feel when the ant discover he was not protecting the ant colony? What did he promised at the end of the story? What did the queen tell Hercules? What did you learned from the story?

Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5ajMMFO28

Suggestions:

• Have your child draw or color.
• Have your child pray every morning.
• Read to your child every day and ask questions.
• Help in the daily chores.
• Play games on ABCya!
• Play Alphabet or Number Bingo, I Spy, legos, puzzles, exercise, or meditate.
• Starfall. com
• Exercise every day.
• 10 Easy Science Experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MHn9Q5NtdY

Sincerely,

Mrs. Fundora