Plavan Elementary - Distance Learning Plan Transitional Kindergarten

Materials Needed: TK Website Newsletter Worksheets for the Week Quick Note to Parents/Caregivers: Every child is at a different level and works at a different pace. Please adjust and modify the work as needed. Learning at home will look different than it does in our classrooms. Most students work best in the morning hours. You may want to create and post a schedule that works well for your family. Virtual Connecting: Zoom 2x per week FVSD does not authorize any recording of audio or video, or screen captures of any Distance Learning Activities by students or families. Theme: Dinosaurs Monday

Reading ● Read 30 minute ❏ Dinosaur Pet ❏ How Do Dinosaurs Say I'm Mad ?

● New sight word: was ❏ was song ❏ Review all in Sight Word Slide Show ❏ Write the new sight word on an index card or post it

and put it somewhere you will see it often ❏ worksheet

● Sight word worksheet

Writing ● Letter Focus: Zz and short a ❏ Zelda Zebra ❏ Letter Zz worksheet ❏ Circle map

● The Short Vowel Song ● Find the short a word ixl G.1

● Vowel worksheets: Short a book & questions ➔ Write uppercase and lowercase letters on the back

Math ● ST Math: 10-15 minutes ● I Can Say My Number Pairs Song ● Review the number 16

○ Number review video ○ Use the worksheet to show all the ways you

can make the numbers Sample ➔ Dino Patterns ➔ Dinosaur Puzzle

Other Activities ● Music with Miss Allen ● Storybots|Dinosaur Songs for Kids ● Flipgrid

Tuesday

Reading ● Read 30 minutes ● Letter Sounds Yo Yo (do your hand motions) ● Watch the Read Aloud:

❏ If the Dinosaurs Came Back o Ask questions before reading: o What was the story about? o What would you want the dinosaurs to do if they came back?

● Read fact card about a Paleontologist ● Paleontologist book (color & read) ● Counting Syllables worksheet

Writing ● Letter Focus: Short e ● Vowel Song

❏ Vowel worksheets: Short e book & questions ❏ Find the short e word ixl G.2

● Journal o Write the sentence on the paleontologist journal page: A paleontologist likes to dig.

● Draw the tools they use

Math ● ST Math: 10-15 minutes ● CGI Story Problem

❏ Sample ❏ Strategy Poster

➔ Dinosaur Puzzle

Other Activities ● Pick a story to listen to for your library time ● More books for library time ● Flipgrid

Wednesday

Reading ● Read 30 minutes ● Dinosaur Dig - Berenstain Bears ● Dinosaur book (fold, color, read) ● Read the fact card about volcanoes

Writing ● Letter Focus: Short i ● Vowel Sound song

❏ Vowel worksheets: Short i book & questions ❏ Find the short i word ixl G.3

● Sight word: was ❖ Sight Word Slide Show ❖ was Song

● Journal o Write the answers on the volcano journal page & draw a volcano o Build a Sentence worksheet: I see a volcano.

● Write the uppercase and lowercase letters on the back

Math ● ST Math: 10-15 minutes ❏ Teen Numbers Song

● Review the number 17 ● Use the worksheet to show all the ways you can

make the numbers ❏ Sample

➔ Dinosaur Puzzle

Other Activities ● Optional Challenge: Exploding Volcano ● T-Rex Yoga ● Flipgrid

Thursday

Reading ● Read 30 minutes ● Watch Read Aloud:

❏ How do Dinosaurs Stay Friends ? ❏ How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read ? ❏ Ask questions before reading:

❖ What characters do you think might be in this book? What makes you think that?

❖ Do you think there will be a problem in the story? Why or why not?

● Read about fossils

Writing ● Letter Focus: Short o ❏ Vowel Song ❏ Vowel worksheets: Short o book & questions ❏ Find the short o word ixl G.4

● Journal o Write the sentence on journal page: Fossils are bones of dinosaurs. o Draw a fossil

● Build a sentence: I found a fossil. ● IXL Phonics Lesson B.3

Math ● ST Math: 10-15 minutes ● IXL Math Lesson F. 6 ● Review Videos

❏ Subitize Rock The Big Numbers Song ● Stegosaurus cut apart & glue in order counting by

10’s ● Dinosaur Puzzle

Other Activities ● Zoom at 11am- class password will be sent out a few minutes before the meeting/wear spirit wear ❏ Lesson: bring a paper & pencil to draw and label a

T-Rex ● T-Rex video ● Flipgrid

Friday

Reading ● Read 30 minutes ❏ The World of Dinosaurs Big and Small ❏ How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?

● Colorful Dinosaurs book ❏ Color & read at least 3x

● Review Sight Word: was ❏ was song

● Review all in Sight Word Slide Show ● Review Word Family: -in

❏ Word Family Song ❏ -in Family worksheet

● Dinosaur Word Sort -it & -in

Writing ● Letter Focus: short u ❏ Watch the video: vowels song ❏ Vowel worksheets: Short u book & questions ❏ FInd the short u word ixl G.5

● Build a Sentence: ❏ The dinosaur is green.

● IXL Phonics Lesson A. 5

Math ● ST Math: 10-15 minutes ● Numbers in the Teens Song ● IXL Math Lesson E.3 ● Review the number 18

o Use the worksheet to show all the ways you can make the number Sample o Write the numbers from 0-20 on the back

● Volcano Puzzle

Other Activities ● Tiny the T-Rex Yoga ● Flipgrid