Home Learning Grid for Kindergarten
Friday, March 27, 2020.
Numeracy
Topic: Measurement – Compare Weight
Objective: The student should be able to:
• Use direct comparison to compare objects by weight.
Developing Vocabulary: New Vocabulary: heavier, lighter, weight
Lesson Introduction:
Briefly introduce the idea of weight by putting a book in a cloth grocery bag and put three books in another. Close the bags. Have students hold a bag in each hand. Ask the students, which bag has more weight? The students should indicate the bag with three books. Say, Yes. That weight or bag is heavier. Prompt the students to say heavier.
Now repeat this activity for lighter.
If possible and you have a bucket balance or a weighing scale at home, show students how it can be used to measure weight in the same example as explained above. Allow students to experiment with objects in the house.
Listening Time
If you don’t have a bucket balance or a weighing scale at home, please watch the video link below, which explains how to measure and compare weight.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+measure+and+compare+weight+for+kids&rlz=1C1GCEA_enKY863KY863&oq=how+to+measure+and+compare+weight+for+kids+&aqs=c
Learning Activity:
Gather a few objects from around the house such as a stuffed toy, a toy car, a fork/spoon, a Bible, a pencil, a bag pack with books inside, a box of sugar, etc. Have students hold a pencil in one hand and a bag of sugar in the other hand.
Ask students, do these objects feel the same in your hands of different? (Different) Ask, how are they different? Sample answer: The bag of sugar pulls my hand down, but the pencil does not. I can hold it higher.
Explain to the students that because the bad of sugar can pull down his/her hand, the object can be called heavier. The pencil could be held higher. That object can be called lighter.
Ask students to compare other objects in the house to determine which is heavier and which is lighter. Make as many comparisons as you can to practice the skill.
Task: Under the categories Heavy and Light, ask students to draw three pictures of objects that are heavy and three pictures of objects that are light. Instruct students to label all pictures and color them.
On the link below, please ask students to practice comparing weight using the vocabulary words heavier and lighter. https://www.turtlediary.com/game/heavy-and-light.html
Resources:
Computer
Objects around the house
Bible Story: The Fiery Furnace
Focus: Put God First
Objective: To know that God protects Daniel’s friends in the fiery furnace.
Listening Time.
Read Luke 10:27. Explain to the students that faith in God should be the first priority in life, but sometimes people allow other things to take priority. Share with students that focusing on other things more than a relationship with God and forgetting to take care of responsibilities is like having an idol. Identify items that could become modern-day idols, such as toys, gaming systems, and money, if these items become more important in life than God.
Please read the make-believe story. (see attachment via email)
Ask the following questions:
• What did Jordan think about all day at school?
• How was Jordan’s video game-like idol?
• What did Jordan do when he realized he needed to change the way he thought about his game?
Learning Activity: Complete the activity from the Bible textbook on page 64. Remind students that Jordan drew a picture to help him stay focused and keep God first in his heart. Direct students to draw a picture that demonstrates how they put God first in their life.
Resources
Bible Text
Pencil
crayons
Literacy: Writing
Objective: Students should be able to:
• Fill in the blank to complete the sentences.
• Print his/her first and last names.
• Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation.
• Spell words
• Sound the letters and put the sounds together.
Reading Activity: Children will complete page 37 in the (Journeys Reader’s Notebook). Parents, please read the instructions/words with your child.
Reading Book: “I am Glad”
Children will click on the link below: https://www.getepic.com/app/read/50007
And read the book.
Ask children to identify all the “Gl” words in the book.
Phonics: “Gl”-sounds
-words that have the “Gl” beginning sounds- (Glad, Glide, Gloss, Glance, Glossary, Gland, Glacier, Glare, Glitter, Glove, Glass, Glow, Gleam, Globe, Glue, Glee)
Instructions: Children will click on the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRbKtRO9ONk
and listen to the blend “gl” repeat the sound of “gl.” Allow children to write the words on paper.
Spelling Test words for tomorrow:
Ate, For, this ,will ,were your, here, said ,we, who
Resources: Paper, pencils, reading book, journey’s reader’s notebook, Epic website, computer, tablets, YouTube
Science/Social Studies
Please take some time each day to work on the Science/Social Project entitled “End of Unit Science and Social Studies Project.’ This project is due on April 6, 2020. Please send a short video of this project presentation to Mrs. Dawson via email.
The attachment was sent via email on March 22, 2020.
Thank you!
Our character trait of the month is Orderliness!
Watch this video with your child. Discuss the character trait “Orderliness” Please talk about this trait throughout the week.
I have completed my child’s Home Learning Task.
Parents Signature:
Answer Sheet for Bible Questions:
• What did Jordan think about all day at school? (his new video game.)
• How was Jordan’s video game-like idol? (the video game was becoming more important to Jordan than anything else.)
• What did Jordan do when he realized he needed to change the way he thought about his game? (He asked the Lord to help him think about the game less)