Extra Snow Day Ideas

 

Make fake snow:

Make bouncing bubbles:

Spelling word practice:  Write words in/on/with

Shaving cream on plate, tray, or table

Rice in container

Colored ice on paper

Markers 

 - Form words with play dough, noodles, toothpicks, marshmallows, etc

Phonics:

**Paper snow balls - write long e words with e, ee, or ea and throw them at each other or into something.  Open and practice reading.  Could also you this with the words to know for the story.  

** scavenger hunt - look around the house for items with the long e sound.  Can they spelling them?

*** try writing a word ladder by changing a letter or 2 at the beginning or end

Example:  

Weed

Seed

Seep

Weep

Week

Peek

Science:

The next chapter planned in science is about weather.

They can read or watch videos on Epic! Or here is some.

Math - practice greater than and less than with regular cards, Uno cards, Legos, or dice.

Use a dry erase board, paper, paper in sheet protector or something.

Example:

Snow Days - online work information

 While we are out for several snow days, the children have some online assignments to complete.

* IXL assignments in math and language arts.  They need to complete the starred assignments.  It may also say teacher recommendations depending on which device you are using.  The language arts assignments are the usual ones for the week.  They will be having a math test soon, so these are the skills on the test.

* Boddle - I sent a message on ClassDojo with website information, username, and passwords.  Boddle is another free math website that we use in the classroom.

* Reading - The children need to read or listen to the story The Big Trip.  I made an assignment on ThinkCentral where they can read it or use the speaker button and listen to it while it tracks the words.  I also added a link on ClassDojo where they can watch a YouTube video of it.  They still have 1 RQ assignment as usual.

*Phonics & Spelling - The new spelling list includes long e words that are spelled 3 ways: e, ee, and ea.  Here are a few videos they can watch about the ee and ea vowel teams.

Here is a story including ee and ea words:

Don’t forget to have them practice with the free website Spellingcity.com.  They can play free games and practice spelling test.

They can also practice the words to know.

If you need help look at this old post for step by step directions.

https://littlecolts.blogspot.com/2023/01/free-online-high-frequency-word-and.html 

The children can also work on the Teach your Monster to Read website.  I sent information to everyone on ClassDojo about this website. They will work at their own pace.  They like this website because it it more game like.  

Focus Wall - Lesson 13 - Seasons

The challenge spelling words are shell and graph.

 

 

Thanksgiving Friendship Stew

 

Each child added their “friendship” snack to the pot and then stirred.

 

Here is the finished stew!

Now it is time to eat.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Working on our STREAM Project

 The children were asked to build a skier to go down the “mountain”.

The children could use different size sticks, pipe cleaners, straws, foil, and tape.  

The Planning Phase:

The Building Phase:

The testing phase:  They tried their skier and could make any adjustments they wanted or needed.

Then we had some races.

Make sure you come to STREAM Night  Tuesday, November 14th. It will be in the school gym from 5:30 - 7:00pm.  There will be activities and exhibits from all the classes.