Listen to a story online and write a recommendation. | Create number sentences �that equal 98. | Create a weather report for your family about severe weather. | Research signs of Spring and create something beautiful to show what you know! | Act out a story from a favorite book! |
Learn more about a famous author, Jon Scieszka. | Play DreamBox to practice number sense and computation. | Do a little continent research and decide where you go on a trip. | Turn a household item into something new through drawing. | Can you create art like Eric Carle? |
Create a poster to find a lost book that you’ve been reading. | Create questions using a calendar for the month of April. | Research 2 animals then create your own animal. | Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music Enjoy exploring instruments and making music.. | Tim and Moby teach you all about the rhythm and beat of percussion instruments. |
Practice reading parts of your book like you were the character or narrator. | Learn about pictographs and make a graph telling about the books your family reads. | Compare and contrast two holidays. | Follow this digital story about compassion, empathy, and mindfulness. | Don’t leave fitness to chance! This body weight workout offers great variety. |
Observe the world around you and create a descriptive paragraph, poem, or song. | Play a card game to compare three-digit numbers. | Compare and contrast water and land ecosystems | Even though we are not in school, let’s continue to Buddy-Up daily! | Practice “grounding” to calm your feelings by watching an animal cam! |
2nd & 3rd Season 2 Episode 1 Apr 14-24
CHOICE BOARD
Language Arts
Math
Sci & S.S.
Lib, Art, Music, PE, Social Emotional
Directions: Select at least one new activity per content column to complete each week.
ELA: Two Thumbs Up
HLP Connection
It’s your turn to rate a book!
Go to StorylineOnline and listen to a story of your choice.
After listening, think about whether you would recommend this book to someone else. Would you give it two thumbs up (you really liked it)?
Write a note to a family member, friend, or your teacher explaining why you would or wouldn't recommend this book.
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ELA: Author Study
HLP Connection
Jon Scieszka is a famous author. He has written many books
that you may have heard, such as The True Story of the Three Little Pigs.
To learn more about Jon Scieszka, visit one of these websites: https://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/scieszka or http://www.jsworldwide.com/.
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ELA: Missing!
HLP Connection
Oh-oh!
The book you’ve been reading has gone missing!
Create a poster or flyer so that whoever finds
your book knows that you are looking for it.
Be sure your poster includes
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ELA: Character Talk
HLP Connection
How would the character in your book sound?
Pick a page or two in a story you are reading.
Think about the character’s mood or what is happening in the story.
How would the character or narrator sound?
Practice reading those pages aloud in the character’s or narrator’s voice.
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ELA: Stop and Observe
HLP Connection
Find a place in your home where you can sit down for 5 minutes to observe what is around you. Write down what you see, hear, and smell.
Use your notes to write a descriptive paragraph, create a poem, or compose a song about what you observed.
Share your work with someone in your family or your teacher.
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Math: What is the Question
HLP Connection
The answer is 98. What could the question be? Can you think of at least four different number sentences?
98 = __________
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Math: Play DreamBox
HLP Connection
Log into Clever to access DreamBox and practice �number sense and computation skills.
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Math: What’s the Date?
HLP Connection
Look at the April calendar. Create four questions that you can
answer using the calendar. Be sure to record the answers to your questions.
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Math: Create a Pictograph
HLP Connection
Log into Clever to access BrainPop Jr.
Watch the Moby and Annie Explain Pictographs video on BrainPop Jr.
Start a pictograph with your family showing how many books each family member can read over two weeks. The family member that reads the most books can pick a book to read to everyone as a bedtime story.
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Math: Compare Numbers
HLP Connection
Use a deck of playing cards with the face cards removed
(aces play as ones).
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Science: Severe Weather
HLP Connection
storm passing through your town.
weather.
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Social Studies: Continent Trip
HLP Connection
Imagine you won a trip to visit any continent in the world.
Where would you go? To prepare for your trip, you need to research about the continent you choose.
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AUDIO
Science: Animal Adaptations
HLP Connection
more about. What would you like to learn about
those animals? Make a list.
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Social Studies: Holidays
HLP Connection
Go to Clever and access the link to PebbleGo.
In the search box type “holidays”. Look at the choice of holidays and research two holidays.
Create a Venn Diagram (two circles that overlap in the middle) to compare and contrast the two holidays.
How are they the same? Write it in the middle.
How are they different? Write in their own circles.
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Science: Water or Land?
HLP Connection
Britannica Elementary, and/or Discovery Science to review
ecosystems.
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Library: Spring Wonders
HLP Connection
Look around your yard to find signs of spring
(flowers, butterflies, insects, and pollen).
Write “I wonder” questions about what you find. For example, “I wonder what butterflies eat?”
Then, visit Clever to access Pebblego or Britannica Elementary
to research answers to your questions.
Share your findings with your family by making a poster, video, or other creation using recyclable or natural materials from your home.
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Butterfly. Clip Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 31 Aug 2017.
quest.eb.com/search/186_1602791/1/186_1602791/cite. Accessed 2 Apr 2020.a
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Library 2: Books! Camera! ACTION!
HLP Connection
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movie clapper board. Clip Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 31 Aug 2017.
quest.eb.com/search/186_1604550/1/186_1604550/cite. Accessed 2 Apr 2020.
With help from family, record a video of yourself acting out the story from a favorite book you are reading.
Then, think of a brand new scene to add to the plot of the story.
Host a family movie night to premiere your creation.
AUDIO
Art: Found Object Sketches
HLP Connection
Find objects from around your house, trace them on to a piece of paper and then transform them into something new!
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Art: The Mixed Up Chameleon
HLP Connection
Video (based on the book by Eric Carle) “The Mixed-Up Chameleon”
The Mixed-Up Chameleon learns an important lesson about being itself when it wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be a chameleon. Play YouTube Video
Try making a collage of your favorite animal.
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Music: Explore Quaver’s
HLP Connection
2nd Grade username: Henrico2 pw: music2020
3rd Grade username: Henrico3 pw: music2020
Explore “Instruments & Knowledge”
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Music: Your Own Beat
HLP Connection
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PE: The Compassion Project
HLP Connection
Want more? Play EmpathEyes and Mindful Maze , too!
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PE: Roll the Dice
HLP Connection
Roll a dice to find out what exercise to complete.
Repeat 10 times. How many days can you do in a week?
No dice? Flip a coin 6 times… how many heads = your number!
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Social/Emotional Learning 1: Buddy Up
HLP Connection
Even though we are not in school, let’s continue to Buddy-Up! We need positive connections with others
during this time of social distancing! Buddy Up is an Everyday Activity from the Sanford Harmony
Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum that can lead to positive peer relationships and overall school success.
Try to do a Buddy Up every day of the week!
Instructions: 1. Identify an option for how to do a Buddy Up activity
2. Select a Buddy
3. Choose a Conversation Starter from the choice board and each Buddy answer the question asked
Virtual Buddy-Up Options
Buddy-Up through a call, video chat or Schoology with a sibling, parent, family member, friend or classmate. .
Buddy-Up Question Starters: Click here for the complete instructions.
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Social/Emotional Learning 2:
Coping Skills: Grounding Techniques
HLP Connection
Instructions:
Animal Live Cams:
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Change can make us worried, nervous, and even angry. When our feelings are strong “grounding” is an activity to help keep us in the present. Grounding skills can be very helpful in managing overwhelming feelings or intense anxiety. Grounding helps to regain their mental focus from an often intensely emotional state… it is also fun and relaxing!
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The Henrico Learner Profile (6Cs)
Find out more at http://blogs.henrico.k12.va.us/hlp/henrico-learner-profile/
Click to see the HLP up close
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