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Two Thumbs Up

Listen to a story online and write a recommendation.

What is the Question?

Create number sentences �that equal 98.

Severe Weather

Create a weather report for your family about severe weather.

Spring Wonders

Research signs of Spring and create something beautiful to show what you know!

Books! Camera! Action!

Act out a story from a favorite book!

Author Study

Learn more about a famous author, Jon Scieszka.

Play DreamBox

Play DreamBox to practice number sense and computation.

Continent Trip

Do a little continent research and decide where you go on a trip.

Object Sketches

Turn a household item into something new through drawing.

The Mixed Up Chameleon

Can you create art like Eric Carle?

Missing!

Create a poster to find a lost book that you’ve been reading.

What’s the Date?

Create questions using a calendar for the month of April.

Animal Adaptations

Research 2 animals then create your own animal.

Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music

Enjoy exploring instruments and making music..

Your Own Beat

Tim and Moby teach you all about the rhythm and beat of percussion instruments.

Character Talk

Practice reading parts of your book like you were the character or narrator.

Create a Pictograph

Learn about pictographs and make a graph telling about the books your family reads.

Holidays

Compare and contrast two holidays.

Compassion Project

Follow this digital story about compassion, empathy, and mindfulness.

Roll The Dice

Don’t leave fitness to chance! This body weight workout offers great variety.

Stop and Observe

Observe the world around you and create a descriptive paragraph, poem, or song.

Compare Numbers

Play a card game to compare three-digit numbers.

Water or Land?

Compare and contrast water and land ecosystems

Buddy Up

Even though we are not in school, let’s continue to Buddy-Up daily!

Coping Skills

Practice “grounding” to calm your feelings by watching an animal cam!

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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.

  • Click on the choice title to open detailed guidance for each choice.
  • Each choice focuses on Henrico Learner Profile (HLP) 6 C’s - Learn more about the HLP HERE
  • Return to the Choice Board by clicking Return to Choice Board Print Choice Board >

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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.

  1. Log into Clever to access BrainPop Jr.

  • Click this link to open a movie that will tell you all about this amazing author.

  • After listening to the movie, choose one or more of the activity tabs under the movie to complete.

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

  • Details about where the book was last seen
  • Pictures that help to identify the book, characters, and setting
  • Directions for returning it to you

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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).

  1. Shuffle the deck and make one face down stack.
  2. Both players take 3 cards off of the top of the pile and create a three-digit number. The player that has the largest value wins �the round. If there is a tie, players start �a new round.
  3. Continue play until all cards have �been used.

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Science: Severe Weather

HLP Connection

  1. Pretend you are a meteorologist reporting on a severe weather

storm passing through your town.

  • Go to Clever and access the link to Pebble Go.

  • In the search box, type Extreme Weather to select your

weather.

  • Using the information you learned, create a news report for your family about this storm.

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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.

  1. Go to Clever and access the link to PebbleGo or Britannica.

  • Search for the continent you would like to visit.

  • Based on what you researched, make a list of the places you would want to visit while there, the animals you would see, and the clothes you would pack for your trip.

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Science: Animal Adaptations

HLP Connection

  1. Brainstorm 2 animals you would like to learn

more about. What would you like to learn about

those animals? Make a list.

  • Go to Clever and use Britannica, PebbleGo, or Discovery Science. Type the name of each animal you are researching in the search bar. You can record information on paper. Example.

  • Bonus: Can you use the information you researched to design (draw) a hybrid animal? A hybrid animal would be a mix of these two animals. What is this new animal called? What are its adaptations? If you have materials at home, you could build your new animal.

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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

  1. Explore ecosystems: Log into Clever and use BrainPop Jr.,

Britannica Elementary, and/or Discovery Science to review

ecosystems.

  • Go to Clever and use Pebble Go. Search Animal Habitats to explore animals that live on land and animals that live in the water.

  • On paper, or in google slides, create/draw an aquatic (water) ecosystem and a terrestrial (land) ecosystem.

  • Label and write sentences describing your ecosystem.

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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.

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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

  1. Go to Clever
  2. Select the Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music Tile
  3. Enter My Quavername and My Password

2nd Grade username: Henrico2 pw: music2020

3rd Grade username: Henrico3 pw: music2020

  • Choose Student Interactives &

Explore “Instruments & Knowledge”

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Music: Your Own Beat

HLP Connection

  1. Log into Clever to access BrainPop.
  2. Select the BrainPOP Tile

  • Choose “Percussion Instruments”
  • Then find something in your household that you could turn into a percussion instrument, like a drum or a shaker.
  • Try to play the rhythm and beat with your favorite song!

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PE: The Compassion Project

HLP Connection

  1. Go to Clever
  2. Select the EVERFI Tile

  • Choose “Compassion Project”
  • Play the Compassion Playground

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.

  • 2nd Grade
  • 3rd Grade

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Social/Emotional Learning 2:

Coping Skills: Grounding Techniques

HLP Connection

Instructions:

  1. Watch an Animal Live Cam.
  2. Locate the following:
    1. 5 things you see
    2. 4 things that make noise
    3. 3 things with texture
    4. 2 things that smell
    5. 1 thing you taste

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)

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