Week Four – Lesson Five

Parent information: Kids do: Assessment:

Activity Watch the video of Mrs. Harris reading, “What do Living Things Need?”: Listen to the story. Take a photo of
One https://youtu.be/ZCHzxs-K69Y your diagram and
Watch the song video about the send it to your
Watch the following video. It is a fun song to help remind us what animals need to needs of animals. teacher via e-mail
survive: or classdojo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4UDf3tF_ Create a labelled diagram of an
O4&list=PLPOojSqMpkcsy8Sr9IYrRVHtIqTIT782w&index=3 animal’s needs. You may choose
any animal you wish!
Ask your student to think back to last week when he or she drew a diagram of plant
needs. Today, students will be drawing a diagram (with labels) of what an animal needs.
It is important to remember that different animals have different shelters, or homes (ie. A
bird lives in a nest, where as a gopher burrows into the ground). Check out Mrs. Byra’s
example under the lesson 5 tab on the class website!
Activity Using the 100 chart your student made earlier in the week, we are going to practice some Watch the videos Take a picture of
Two skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.  your colourful 100
Here are some fun songs to help your child remember how to skip count: Using a red crayon, circle all the chart and send it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubzUkNLIyQ4 numbers on your 100 chart you to your teacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPgFfo0l3k say when you count by 2’s.  via e-mail or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQSdKlNvrmw&list=RDyQSdKlNvrmw&start_radio=1 classdojo.
Using a blue crayon, circle all the
Using a red crayon, ask your student to circle all the numbers on the 100 chart that are numbers you say when you
said when counting by 2’s. count by 5’s. 
Using a blue crayon, ask your student to circle all the numbers on the 100 chart that are
said when counting by 5’s. Using a green crayon, circle all
Using a green crayon, ask your student to circle all the numbers that are said when the numbers you say when you
counting by 10’s. count by 10’s. 
Some numbers may have more than one colour!  
Here is a video of Mrs. Craven to show you: Some numbers might have more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbJbOyOHkdY&t=3s than one colour when you are
finished! 
Activity Teachers have assigned new books for your child to read in their Epic account. Make sure Log on to your Epic account.
Three to read 20 minutes a day! You can also use you RAZ Kids account for more books! Each Check your mailbox – this is
week teachers will provide a new reading fluency or comprehension where your teacher has put your
Guided strategy that you can practice with your child to really strengthen their assigned reading!
Reading literacy skills. Please have your child read 20 minutes a day. You can
help by listening to them read, reminding them to read or reading to
Daily them!
Activity
Reading Strategy: Chunky Monkey - Look for chunks you know: word
families, word endings, and other words you already know.