First Grade Activities (Google Doc)
Grade 1 Elementary At-Home Learning Activities
For the Week of May 11, 2020
Thank you for doing your best to complete the Priority and Enrichment Activities.
The Extension Activities are included as optional activities to extend learning.
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To check off an Activity, double click on a checkbox, then right-click, then select the checkmark.
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Extension Activities → |
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Specials - Enrichment Activities
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Music |
Art |
Physical Education |
Technology |
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Reading/Writing |
Reading/Writing Priority Activities |
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Activity 1 |
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Non-Fiction |
Read / Watch |
Watch the following video about weather --- https://tinyurl.com/y8u6mq9r or choose a non-fiction book of your choice to read |
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Practice / Respond |
Complete the bubble map. Write the title Weather or if you chose a different topic in the center. Add the details that you learned watching the video or reading your book.
(attached at end of packet) |
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Activity 2 |
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Problem and Solution |
Read / Watch |
Watch the read aloud video.--- https://tinyurl.com/y8lqys2a or choose a book that has a problem in the story. |
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Practice / Respond |
After watching the read aloud or if you chose a book from your personal library to read, think what was the main problem in the story and how it was solved/resolved. Complete the problem and solution chart in your packet and discuss with someone in your home.
(attached at end of packet) |
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Activity 3 |
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Word Work- /ee/ and /ea/ |
Read / Watch |
Watch the following video over /ee/and /ea/ words. https://tinyurl.com/y29a6kke or practice reading aloud the words below in the practice/respond section independently or with someone in your home. |
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Practice / Respond |
Words (peak, peek, meat, meet, beet, beat, heal, heel, see, sea). Write your long e words with sidewalk chalk and draw a picture showing the difference in meaning. Send a picture to your teacher. OR Write each word in a sentence and underline your spelling word. Send a picture to your teacher. |
Reading/Writing Extension Activities |
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Activity 4 |
Focus |
Phonics- /au/ and /aw/ |
Read/ Watch |
Watch the following videos:https://tinyurl.com/ybkbpsge and https://tinyurl.com/y7j3x3ch
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Practice / Respond |
Get a sheet of paper and write the following sentences with the correct word in the blank from the word bank provided. Take a picture and turn it in to your teacher.
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Activity 5 |
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Sight Word Practice |
Read/ Watch |
Sight Word Memory. Use the last five words you have not used yet. Create two sets of cards using those five words. Mix the words up and lay them face down. Take turns flipping two cards over at a time. If your two words match, you keep the cards. At the end of the game,the player with most cards wins. (Sight word list:house, start, grew, way, friend, story, street, above, find, between, every, should, father, watch, children, hid, enough, dark, great, inside, light, seen, during, worn, wrong, you’re) |
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Practice / Respond |
Read and spell the sight words to a family member. Use each word in a sentence. You can just say the sentences out loud to a family member. |
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Mathematics |
Mathematics Priority Activities |
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Activity 1 |
Focus |
Double Digit Addition |
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Read / Watch |
Watch: https://tinyurl.com/yyygy3on or read the chart below.
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Practice / Respond |
Practice here: https://tinyurl.com/ya4sq3mx or solve the problems below.
Send a picture of your work to your teacher. |
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Activity 2 |
Focus |
Tell time to the hour and half hour using analog and digital clocks. |
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Read / Watch |
Watch https://tinyurl.com/y4m7t9gz or read the chart below.
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Practice / Respond |
Practice: When learning to tell time past the hour determining the correct hour can become a struggle. Many students get confused about the hour when reading the time on an analog clock, when the hour hand falls between two numbers. Here’s how to solve that problem: “make a hook”.
Practice: Identify time on three separate clocks such as a clock at home, internet pictures, or draw a clock for students and have them use the hook strategy to practice. Respond; Complete the clocks below, take a picture and send it to your teacher.
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Activity 3 |
Focus |
Tell time to the hour and half hour using analog and digital clocks. |
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Read / Watch |
Watch - https://tinyurl.com/ycchm8ru or read the anchor charts below.
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Practice / Respond |
Create an analog clock and label it with the time of 2:30 and a second clock with 4:00.
Take a picture and send it to your teacher. |
Mathematics Extension Activities |
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Activity 4 |
Focus |
Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour |
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Read/ Watch |
Watch: https://tinyurl.com/y7mm5gba or read the chart below:
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Practice / Respond |
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Activity 5 |
Focus |
Tell time to the hour and half hour using analog and digital clocks. |
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Read/ Watch |
Watch https://tinyurl.com/y7b4x7lf and play https://tinyurl.com/sy5k4uu or read the chart below.
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Practice / Respond |
Write and label the following times on the clocks above: 11:00, 2:30, 4:00, 9:30 |
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Science |
Science Priority Activities |
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Activity 1 |
Focus |
Life Cycles |
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Read / Watch |
Look at each picture on pg. 1 for this week. If you can, click on the pictures to watch short videos explaining what is happening inside the egg each day. |
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Practice / Respond |
Look at each picture. Observe how the chick is growing in the egg. Tell someone in your family what is happening in each picture and answer the questions at the end. Share a picture with your teacher. |
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Activity 2 |
Focus |
Life Cycles |
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Read / Watch |
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Practice / Respond |
Read pg. 2 for this week (also attached at end of packet), and describe in your own words, how an egg changes into a frog. Share a picture with your teacher. |
Science Extension Activities |
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Activity 3 |
Focus |
Life Cycles |
Practice / Respond |
Draw a picture and write about any pet you would like to have on notebook paper. Make sure to include why you want that pet, and tell about how it will change as it grows up (Its life cycle). |
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Social Studies |
Social Studies Priority Activities |
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Activity 1 |
Focus |
Celebrate America |
Read / Watch |
Read and discuss the following vocabulary words with your child: liberty – freedom symbol – something that stands for something else patriotic – showing love for your country celebrate – to honor or enjoy government – a political unit holiday – a special day of celebration reenactment – to repeat the actions of an earlier event culture – the language, beliefs, traditions, of a group of people |
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Practice / Respond |
Create a foldable of vocabulary words. Fold the paper to make four boxes. Choose 4 of the vocabulary words above. Write the word and illustrate a picture in the square. Write a sentence using the word. |
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Activity 2 |
Focus |
Symbols |
Read / Watch |
Watch the following video about symbols of the United States |
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Practice / Respond |
Explain to someone in your home why you think America is a great place to live |
Social Studies Extension Activities |
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Activity 3 |
Focus |
Symbols |
Read/ Watch |
Watch the following Brainpop, Jr about symbols;https://tinyurl.com/umok6ss |
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Practice / Respond |
On a sheet of paper, write what each of the following symbols represents for the United States Bald eagle, liberty bell, and statue of liberty |
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Enrichment |
Music |
Complete the activities you can. Try to finish all activities by the end of the week! ☺ Music Choice Board 5/11/2020
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STEAM |
STEAM Challenge Choice Board Choose one activity (or more if you want) to design and create. Only use items that are already in and round your house.
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Physical Education |
Choose one to two activities
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Technology |
Students that have internet capabilities should have two 30 minute sessions on WOWZERS - https://wowzers.com/ and on Smarty Ants - https://play.smartyants.com/login each week. |