Watch and listen to Ms. Chang read What to do With What You Grew by Roland Gahler. If you want to try growing something after reading this, check out the Kitchen Scrap Garden post! Children in Italy have been creating something to brighten their communities during their lengthy lockdown. They have been creating rainbows and putting them in their windows with the message “Andra’ tutto bene” which means, “Everything will be okay”. Thanks to social media, this is now being done all over the world!
Your kindness challenge this week is to create a rainbow (using any materials you wish) and display it in a window for your neighbours to see! I made one using cut out hearts and patterned paper and put it on my front door. You can make a rainbow any way that you like (drawing, paper, craft materials, etc.)! Watch and listen to Ms. Chang read Taan's Moons: A Haida Moon Story. Permission to read this story online has been granted by Mckellar & Martin Publishing Group Ltd. Kitchen scrap gardening is when you grow plants from food items you'd normally throw in your compost bucket. Kids love this idea, and it's a great way to reinforce the sustainable living concepts of recycling and reusing. Plus, it's just fun to grow new plants from old plant parts! This is something that's easy to do at home - lots of vegetables just need water (see below)! Check out this website for instructions on how to grow food from kitchen scraps! Below, you can see some pictures of the green onions that I grew at home! Create an “At-Home” Journal!
You can decorate the cover and fill it with journal entries each day of what this unique time in our lives looks like, how you’re feeling, what you did, etc. This may be a keepsake you will treasure for years! If you have a printer home, I've also posted some journal pages that you can print out and fill out at home! I've posted a couple examples below. Hi everyone!
One of the activities for this week was to write a letter to a friend. I wanted to post an example of what the letter might look like, and also send a little message to say hello to my students! If you would like to send a letter to a friend in the class, please email me a photo of the letter and I will pass it on to your classmate's family. When you're working on the letter, please don't worry too much about correct spelling, or even being able to write entire words if your child is not there yet. It's more important for them to practice sounding out the word (stretch it out - ex: have, h-aaaa-vvv) and writing the letter sounds that they hear. If your child is not quite at the letter-writing stage, have them draw a picture of what they're doing at home and then label the picture with words or letter sounds. Take care! Listen and watch Ms. Chang read the story Plant a Seed & See What Grows by Roland Gahler. Wednesday, April 22 is Earth Day! To celebrate, I've included a song by Michael Ryther called "Why Can't Everyday be Earth Day?" and a Sesame Street video that takes us on a tour of a Recycle Depot.
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