April 24
Opinion Writing - Day 1
1. What is a fact? What is an opinion? Watch this video from Teaching without Frills about facts and opinions to find out.
1. What is a fact? What is an opinion? Watch this video from Teaching without Frills about facts and opinions to find out.
2. Watch this video from Teaching without Frills to find out how you tell if something is a fact or an opinion.
3. Play a Game. (You will need index cards or pieces of paper, and a pencil)
- Before playing, you or your child will need to write these sentences on the cards or paper.
- Dogs are cute.
- Cats are ugly.
- Pigs have legs.
- Frogs hop.
- Basketball is not fun.
- I love school!
- My dad has hands.
- I have a chin.
- Mrs. Layman is nice.
- Mr. Settle is a PE teacher.
- Put the cards in a pile.
- Before you begin, pick a place for facts and a place for opinions.
- You could choose two opposite sides of a room.
- You could play outside and draw two rectangles with sidewalk chalk.
- You know your child. Consider asking what your child would like to do.
- Now, pick a card and then read the sentence.
- Think about whether the sentence is a fact or an opinion and put it in the right place.
- Explain your answer to your big person.
- If you're right, you get to keep the card. If you're wrong put the card back in the pile.
- Play until all of the cards are gone.
- Extension: You could write one additional fact and one additional opinion sentence to use in the game.
- I've attached an answer key below.
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4. Answer these two questions and then click submit.
Telling Time
1. Watch this video about telling time. I know you've watched it before. Please watch it one last TIME today.
1. Watch this video about telling time. I know you've watched it before. Please watch it one last TIME today.
2. Click here to practice telling time to the hour and half-hour on Quizlet.
3. Play one or more of these games on Quizlet about telling time to the hour and half-hour.
For those of you who are unable to do the activities above, try one or more of these activities instead.
1. Make a Paper Plate Clock (You will need a paper plate, thick paper or cardboard for the clock hands, markers or crayons, and a paper fastener.)
2. Play a Game. (You will need a paper plate clock or clock with adjustable hands, a coin, and two dice.)
1. Make a Paper Plate Clock (You will need a paper plate, thick paper or cardboard for the clock hands, markers or crayons, and a paper fastener.)
- Write the numbers on the paper plate to look like a clock.
- Cut a short, skinny rectangle for the hour hand.
- The word "hour" is shorter than the word minute, so write the word "hour" on the short, skinny rectangle.
- Cut a long, skinny rectangle for the minute hand.
- The word "minute" is longer than the word hour, so write the word "minute" on the long, skinny rectangle.
- Push a paper fastener through the end of the hour hand, then through the end of the minute hand, and then through the center of the paper plate.
- Take a picture of your paper plate clock and post it on your portfolio in Class Dojo.
2. Play a Game. (You will need a paper plate clock or clock with adjustable hands, a coin, and two dice.)
- If you are playing with more than one person, the person with the smallest hands goes first.
- On your turn, flip a coin.
- If it lands on heads, move the minute hand to the 12.
- If it lands on tails, move the minute hand to the 6.
- Next, roll the two dice and add the numbers together.
- Move the hour hand to that number if the minute hand is on the 12.
- Move the hour hand half past that number if the minute hand in on the 6.
- Then, you need to say the time that is on the clock.
- Example: Jen flips a coin. It lands on tails, so she moves the minute hand to the 6. The she rolls a four and a three on the dice. She adds four and three more to get seven. She moves the hour hand half past the seven because the minute hand is on the 6 (half-past the hour). She says, "It is half-past seven, or seven-thirty." Jen is correct.
- If you are correct you get 5 points and that is the end of your turn.
- The game is over when the first person gets to 60 points.
- Record yourself playing this game and post it on your portfolio on Class Dojo.