Week of April 27-May 1

Bonjour tout le monde!

I hope everyone is enjoying our lovely spring weather. It is so nice to feel the sun again after a long winter! This week's assignments have all been posted to our Google Classroom.
https://classroom.google.com/c/MTA5MjY4NzQ3NDNa

I have added some new Boom card decks for math, for rhyming, for the sound "on" and for spring vocabulary. https://wow.boomlearning.com/signin/student?req=login

Under the links tab above, I have added  Ms.White and Mrs. Waite's music teachers' blog.

I had to create a new account for our "Splash Learn" math activities. Please use the new class code and password that I e-mailed to you on Friday. The old ones will not work.
https://www.splashlearn.com/

Here are some fun ideas for working on sight words and spelling words: (suggestions in blue print are new this week)

• Crazy writing:  Place some shaving cream, rice, salt or sugar on a rimmed baking sheet. Have your child use their finger or a Q-tip to write their words.
• Finger paint in a bag: Put some paint into a large clear zip-loc bag. Close the bag tightly. Your child can now use their finger to write words on the bag.
• "Abracadabra!": Affix words to the wall or ceiling. Turn out the lights and use a flashlight to read the words.
• "Word Hunt": Write the words on flashcards and hide them around the room or even outside! Have your child find the word and then read it or spell it.
• "Surprise Bag" Place all words in a bag. Have your child draw a word card out of the bag. If they can read it in a "click", they keep the card. If not, it goes back in the bag.
• "Word Hop" Write the words on cards and place them on the ground a short distance apart from each other. Have your child jump from word to word reading them as quickly as possible. I can see this working well with sidewalk chalk on the driveway!
• Continue playing "Go Fish" with word cards. I recently posted a Go Fish reference sheet on Google Classroom, that will help parents to play the game in French (in the reference section of the "classwork" page.
• Write words in different ways" using Scrabble tiles, letter stamps or magnetic letters on a cookie sheet. You could also cut letters out of magazines or cereal boxes or have fun writing the words on the driveway with sidewalk chalk.

Happy birthday to Eric who will be turning 7 on Friday! "Bonne fête, Eric!"

A note on Google classroom: I personally find the "stream" page disorganized looking. If you click on  "classwork"  at the top of the page in Google classroom, you will see the assignments and suggested activities organized by topic/date.                                                                                                 

Do what you can, choose from among the activities I have suggested and don't put too much pressure on yourselves. Try to have fun and aim for 30 minutes of speaking listening/reading/writing and 15 minutes of math daily 
(45 minutes total/day)

Have a great week! 

Madame