April Choice Boards
Directions Please date the choice board as your child completes an activity box. Remember, activities should not be repeated. Send your child’s completed work to school each day. If your child completes an activity that is hands-on and cannot be brought in to school, pictures of your child completing the activity are always welcome. Send pictures to: Thank you! J
Language/Sight Words
Do your own sight word project and decorate the page around it. / Place your sight words cards on the floor randomly. Play Pick-up, I Spy. An adult will say ‘I spy’ (naming the sight word) and the child picks it up. The child gains points, pennies, hugs, or stickers for each word. / An adult reads the words to the child. Slowly say the following words. Count how many sounds you hear in each word. Write the words and the # of sounds you heard in each. twin, he, free, lug, fear, time, tooth, sad, fist. / Write 12 sight words in a Hop Scotch pattern. An adult calls out the word and the child gains points or pennies or stickers for the sight words he/she can hop to and say.Write 20 of your sight words using chalk, paint, or markers. / Write & clap the parts in these words as an adult calls them out to you. Write the number of parts you hear by each word: umbrella, rose, weather, rain, thunder, worm, daffodil, dirt. / Write, sound out and draw a picture for the following words: sad, mess, fin, sub, hen, hug, run, lap, sick, lock. / Write 10 these words change the last letter to make a new word: ham, fab, men, tell, kit, fix, pox, rob, sun, mug.
Blend these word parts and then draw a picture of what you’ve read: c-an, n-et, d-ig, j-og, t-ub. / Type and email 20 of your most challenging sight words to your teacher at: / Have an adult scramble up 15 of your sight words on a sheet of paper. Write them correctly beside the scrambled form. / Write & tap the sounds you hear in these words as an adult calls them out to you. Write the number of sounds you hear by each word: rag, rust, my, cry, if, belt, side, high, flag, cub, pens, fix.
Math
Write 31 and continue writing until you get to 53. / Trace 2 rectangular objects at home. Place them edge to edge and measure to see which is longest. Put a large check on the one that is the longest. Bring your tracings to school. / Draw to solve: There are 10 leprechaun coins. Seven are gold the rest are silver. How many are silver? / Practice with these addition and subtraction facts flashcards.0 1 2 3 4 1 4 4 4 4
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Write the addition and subtraction facts in a Hop Scotch pattern. The child gains points or pennies or stickers for the facts he/she can hop to and answer correctly. / Draw a lemon tree showing that some lemons fell off. The tree that had 10 lemons, but now only has 6. How many fell off?
10-_=6 / Draw 3 ways to make 5 using yellow and red circles. Example: 0 yellows & 5 reds. Make yellow circles for the first number and red for the second. / Draw 18 hearts and 11 suns. Draw lines to match those sets. Box the set that has more. Circle the set that has less.
Write 2 numbers
(between 1 – 10) on 10 lines of the paper. Box the number that is greatest and circle the smallest on each line. / Write by 5s and 10s to 100. / Write 18 and continue to 35. / Draw to solve: Ten jelly beans are in a bag. Four are red. The rest are yellow. How many are yellow?