Grade One Learning Activities

Monday- Letter G (Game)

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Balloon Tennis

What you will need: paper plates, balloons, masking tape, plastic or wooden spoon.

Tape your spoon to the back of your paper plate. Then use it like a tennis racket and the balloon as your ball. Hit the balloon back and forth and see which team can keep it in the air the longest.

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You can also play individually by using one racket and try to keep the balloon in the air.

Family Game Night

Dust off all those games in the closet and play a couple of board games together.

Paper Plane Landing Strip Make a paper plane. If you’re not sure how click HERE for step by step instructions. Use masking tape to create a landing strip on the floor (see picture). Take turns throwing your plane and add up your score. See who can get the highest score.

Math Games :

Click on the titles below to play fun online math games.

Island Chase SubtractionJet Ski AdditionAmusement Park AdditionDucky Race Subtraction

Tuesday- Letter H (Hawaiian)

Listen to Reading - click the link below to listen to the story Froggy Goes to Hawaii by Johnathan London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVdQT11aQTc

1) Write about your favorite part of the story.2) Write about a time that you went on a trip.

Wednesday- Letter I (Ice Cream)

Ice Cream Digraphs-

Writing- Choose one of the following writing prompts and write away!!! (Remember…you can always do more than one!)

1) If you could invent a new flavor of ice cream, what would it be?2) Write a story about a land made entirely of ice cream.3) Do you prefer your ice cream in a cone or a bowl? Explain why.4) What is your favorite memory that includes ice cream?5) If you could eat ice-cream with anyone in the world, who would it be? 6) Write a story about the life of an ice cream cone.

Ice Cream Fact Families - Complete the fact families for each of the cones on the sheet. A fact family is a set of facts (4 facts) with the same three numbers.

Ice Cream Ordinal Numbers- draw an ice cream cone (on a piece of paper) like the one shown then follow the instructions below

Color the 1st scoop blue Color the 9th scoop yellow Color the 10th scoop red

Color the 2nd scoop green Color the 4th scoop purple Color the 8th scoop brown Color the 3rd scoop orange Color the 5th scoop green Color the 7th scoop pink

Thursday- Letter J (Jungle)

Read Aloud- Click HERE to listen to the story “The Umbrella” by Jan Brett. After you finish listening, answer the comprehension questions below:

Why was Carlos going into the Cloud Forest? Why did Carlos climb the tree? Why did Carlos leave the umbrella on the ground? Why wouldn’t Toucan leave the umbrella? What can you tell about Kinkqiou?

Writing- see writing options below. The best part of the jungle is…? If I was a jungle animal, I would be…

Math- Answer the Jungle Word Problems below. Don’t forget to use pictures, numbers and words to show your answer.

Jungle Day!

The alligator caught 18 fish. He ate some of them. He has 13 left. How many did he eat?

The cheetah ran 20 km. The ostrich ran 13 km. How many more km did the cheetah run than the ostrich?

The parrot has 9 blue feathers. She also has some red feathers. Altogether she has 15 feathers. How many feathers are red?

Animal Crackers Fact Families – Click HERE to print a hands on learning activity that will help your child develop an understanding of addition and subtraction fact families.

Jungle Riddles-

Friday- Letter K (Kite)

Read Aloud- To listen to Kite Day by Will Hillenbrand click HERE

Writing- write a procedure with the title: “How To Fly a Kite”

Skip Counting Kites- Click the link below to print and create a fun kite that will also help you practice your skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mmek-97l4j01sY1hBSbVA4ZfrE0thlnt/view

Number Bond Kites- Click the link below to print kite themed sheets to review number bonds to 20. file:///C:/Users/robinjil/Downloads/Number%20Bonds%20Kites.pdf

What is a Number Bond? Number bond is a model that shows how a pair of numbers can join together to make a bigger number or how a number can be broken down into smaller numbers. You might also hear the words part, part, whole to describe this.