Week 5: Learning Plan

This Week In Grade One May 4-8 2020
Task One English Language Arts- Wellness		Weekly Wellness Story Listen Watch the story “Ruby Finds A Worry” Discuss Talk to someone in your family about the story. Do you ever feel worried? What is worrying you? Who can you talk to? What can you do? Write/Draw Draw a picture of yourself with a worry. What is your picture about? Write a sentence about what your worry is, or label your picture.  Choose An Activity There are lots of things we can do to help us feel calmer when we are worried. If you have materials to create one of the ideas below, try making a worry tool. Tool #1 Homemade “worry stone”.  Use sculpting clay (the kind you can bake), salt dough, or a smooth rock.  If you are using clay, make a small ball, then press your thumb into it and bake. You can paint and decorate your ball or rock.  If you are feeling worried, you can hold the worry stone and rub it with your thumb. Tool #2 Make a Calm Down Jar. There is a link below for several methods. If your mind is swirling with worries, you can watch the calm-down jar to help calm your thoughts. Calm Down Jar Tool #3 Make a Worry Box Decorate a box in any way you like, you could glue pictures on it, paint it, colour it etc. When you are worried, write down your worry and leave it in the box, let the worry box hold on to your worries for you, so you can feel calm and happy. Tool #4 Draw a Breathing Square If you want to feel calm and happy, sometimes a breathing square can help. There is an example below. Use your finger to trace a square in the air, or on a piece of paper as you breathe.  Tool #5 Stress Ball Fill a balloon with flour, rice, or playdough. Tie the balloon, then put another balloon over top- exploding flour is not very calming! Tie tightly, and squeeze as needed to calm your worries.
Links		Calm Down Jar Ruby Finds A Worry
Learning Intentions		I can listen, speak, read, write, and represent to express my feelings and experiences.
Optional Extensions		Try making more than one calming tool and make your own No Worries Toolbox!
Task Two English Language Arts		Literacy: Mother’s Day Listen to the story How to Raise a Mom written by Jean Reagan. Task: Wordle List some words that describe your mom. What does she like? What is she good at? How does she make you feel? Some examples might be: ·  Smart ·  Funny ·  Adventures ·  Caring ·  Kind ·  Sporty ·  Genuine ·  Artist ·  Caregiver ·  Strong Decorate a beautiful heart shape and write the word ‘MOM’ in the middle in large letters. Write all the words that describe your mom all around it. Remember to give this to her on Mother’s Day (Sunday)! Task: Mom Survey Ask a parent to either print or write out the mom survey in the attachments. Write down what you think the answers are to the questions. Share it with your mom!
Links		How To Raise A Mom Abuela
Learning Intentions		I can Statements: ·  I can use descriptive words ·  I can make a list ·  I can listen to a story and remember important words and pieces of information from the story
Optional Extensions		Extension: Listen to the story Abuela written by Arthur Dorros and illustrated by Elisa Kleven. Tell me some of the Spanish words that you learned in the story. Do you have an Abuela (grandmother)? What do you call her? Write a description of her and what you like to do when you are with her. How is she special?
Task Three		The Tiny Seed - Writing Task  Watch the story, The Tiny Seed  Things to think about while watching:  What are some ways that seeds travel in this book?  The tiny seed ends up growing into a big beautiful flower. What happened to some of the other seeds? Why did they not survive and grow into a plant?  What does this tell you about some of the things that seeds/plants need to survive/grow? Writing task:  What do you think plants need to survive? Can you think of at least 3 things? Record your ideas on paper before listening to the song.  Watch The Needs of Plants song. Combine your prior knowledge and ideas about what plants need to survive with some new learning from the video. Add any additional information that you learned to the writing you did previously. You should have a list of 5 things that plants need to survive.  Choose a way to show what you know about the things plants need to survive. You could: -use loose parts to create a picture  -draw or paint a picture and add labels  -write a journal entry  -choose your own way to show what you know!
Links		The Tiny Seed  The Needs of a Plant
Learning Intentions		I can identify the needs of plants.  I can record information and new ideas.  I can share my understanding using a material of my choice (paint, markers, loose parts).
Optional Extensions		Complete an at home experiment!  What happens when a plant doesn’t have one of the things it needs to survive? What do you think will happen to a seed that has no light? Or a seed that has no water? Test it out!  Choose one type of seed that you have at home (maybe a vegetable seed or a bean).  Label different containers: -put one seed in water (no soil) -put one seed in soil (no water) -put one seed somewhere that it gets no light -put one seeds somewhere that it gets direct light -put one seed somewhere in an air-tight container  Check on your seeds daily and record your observations over the next week or two.
Task Four		Caterpillar Observation Task 1: Notice Wonder Look closely at the pictures and watch the video of the caterpillar. Observe what it looks like (body parts, colors, patterns, shapes, textures, size) and how it behaves.  Draw a scientific sketch of the caterpillar and label 3 or more body parts or 3 descriptive words of what you see (because we haven’t talked about the body parts, the kids can write what they think they are or use describing words for eg. it looks spikey, legs, hairs).  Discuss with your parent everything you notice. Choose your 3 best observations (something you had to look really closely at to notice instead of just the things you saw right away) and write them down. This can be appearance or behavior. Discuss with your parent the things you wonder about the caterpillar. Choose 3 of your best questions. Things that you don’t already know the answer to and something you actually want to find out. Write your 3 questions.
Links		Caterpillar Video
Learning Intentions		I can look closely and represent details I can create a scientific sketch with labels I can share observations I can ask questions for further investigation Criteria for Success: I added 3 or more careful observations I added 3 or more thoughtful questions that I want to seek answers to My sketch is accurate because I looked at the shape of my object, it has many details, at least 3 labels or descriptive words
Examples
Math  Task One		Math: Measurement Listen to the Story Inch by Inch written by Leo Lionni. In the story the inch worm measured different body parts of his animal friends. Your task is to choose a tool to measure with. We are measuring with non-standard units so choose something that is not a ruler. Some examples of tools could be a pencil, chop stick, glue stick, LEGO, Barbie Doll.... Task: With the tool of your choice measure parts of your body like your arm, leg, foot or hand and record how many lengths of your tool that body part is. Next, measure someone in your family the same way. Remember to measure the same body part. Try and measure at least three different members of your family. Once you have collected your data, create a bar graph (see below) that shows how each person’s body part compares in length to one another.
Links		Inch By Inch
Learning Intentions		I Can Statements: ·  I can measure with non-standard units ·  I can understand the importance of 1:having a baseline when comparing lengths (starting point) and 2: Using the same tool or unit when comparing lengths ·  I can compare the length of two different items and communicate which is the longest/shortest
Optional Extensions		Extension: Do you know how tall you are? Figure out your height. Figure out the height of the rest of the members of your family. Can you pictorially represent the height of each family member (drawing, graph, photography)
Math  Task Two		Math Word Problem  Watch the video called, “I can say my number pairs” I Can Say My Number Pairs We call pairs of numbers that make 10, friendly numbers. Friendly numbers are pairs of numbers that are easy to remember and help us to quickly add numbers together!  Can you think of friendly numbers that make 5? How many pairs are there? Write down your answers.  Watch the story, The very hungry caterpillar. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Word problem How many fruits did the very hungry caterpillar eat by day 5?  Show your answer using pictures and a number sentence. Using friendly numbers might help you solve this problem!  Learning Intentions:  -I can add numbers to 20 -I can use addition to solve a word problem -I can show my thinking using pictures and numbers Extension:  How many foods did the very hungry caterpillar eat altogether?  Can you think of friendly numbers (number pairs) that make 20? How many pairs can you come up with? Record your answers.
Math Task Three		Math Garden This is a fun way to practice math facts that can be done inside or outside with chalk.  Draw a flower or a sun with a large centre, and large petals or points. Decide if you want to practice addition or subtraction. Write a number in the middle (a higher number for subtraction). Write a number from 1-10 outside each point or petal.  Then add or subtract and put the answer in the petal.  You can make your problems as tricky as you like!  See if you can create a whole math garden. Subtraction Flower Example Addition Sun Example
Math  Task Four		Math Part Part Whole  Tasks: Students can choose 1 of the 2 tasks below. Choice 1: This will help students who are developing their understanding of breaking numbers into parts, and finding a missing part.  Watch the video “Introduction to part part whole”   Part Part Whole     Use objects found in your house and a part part whole mat as seen in the video to complete the attached missing parts sheet. When finished, play the game ‘Salute’ with cards from A-5. See video for instructions.         Learning Intentions: I can find the missing part using my own strategy. I can break a larger number into 2 small parts using objects. Choice 2: This task will benefit students with a good grasp of part part whole and move into how addition and subtraction are related. Watch the video about fact families. Fact Families Video Fill in the worksheet to show how the 3 numbers relate to each other by filling in the blanks so the equations are true.                                     Eg.for the numbers 5, 3, 8                                                  5+3 = 8   3+5 = 8   8-3 = 5   8-5 = 3 Fact Families When finished, play the game ‘Salute’ with cards from A-9 (see video for instructions). After you have played for a while and tried different strategies to find the missing part, see if you can show the 2 addition and 2 subtraction equations for that fact family.  I can add and subtract numbers to 18. I can find a missing part of an equation.
Links		Salute Game Instructions Salute Game
Extension		Can you apply your understanding of part part whole to solve the problems. Can you identify if the numbers in the problem are the whole or part? Ted had 12 Pokemon cards. He gave some to Jen and now he has 4. How many did he give away? There are 15 animals in a field. 8 are deer. The rest are moose. How many are moose?