Blacklock
Fine Arts Elementary
Kindness Mission
Each day at 7:00 pm, step outside your home (with your family) and make some noise (use your voice, instruments or anything that makes noise) for all the essential workers who help to take care of our community (ex. nurses, doctors, paramedics, hospital cleaning staff, grocery store clerks, truck drivers, etc.).
Important Parent Information:
Langley School District offers general technology help for students and families.
To access this service, please email supportme@sd35.bc.ca
Monday, May 11th
Let's Write! (20 min.)
Today's Topic:
Imagine you are in a very large hot air balloon. Where would you go and what would you see?
Click on the PDF to print a hot air balloon colouring page!
1. Instructions:
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​​​Write for at least 10 minutes.
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Write in your journal or special writer’s notebook.
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Pick any topic you like or use the topic for today.
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2. Look Over Your Work and Ask Yourself:​
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Does my writing make sense?
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Is there a better way to say that?
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Did I try to use some interesting and descriptive words?
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Did I start with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark?
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3. Make Corrections and Changes to Your Writing.
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4. When You Are Finished:
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Scan or take a picture of your work and upload it to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
Reading Time (10 min.)
Read to a friend or family member using a chat platform like Zoom, Skype, or Facetime.
Math Activity (20 min.)
Choose a number:
50 or 80 or 100 or 150
What are some different ways you can count up to and down from that number?
Consider counting by
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2s
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5s
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10s
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or as a challenge count by 3s or 4s!
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How will you share one way you counted?
Scan or upload a picture of your work to your portfolio (my Blueprint).
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Optional Math Activities:​
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Sign in to Mathletics after finishing today's math assignment. Check out the “Explore” and “Play” sections.
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Choose a math game you know how to play. (You could use a 100s chart, your computer/tablet, dice or cards.)
Taking Care of Myself (20 min.)
Think about the saying:
“Laughter is the best medicine.”
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Talk to people in your house about why you think laughter is good for us.
Have everyone share a time that they remember laughing really hard.
Science Time with Mr. T
House Points
10 Points = Complete Hot Air Balloon Writing
10 Points = Watch Super Science Time with Mr. Thiessen video
Tuesday, May 12th
Let's Write! (20 min.)
Today's Topic:
Today’s art activity is making paper airplanes.
Write out the steps involved in making a paper plane.
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Use words such as:
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first
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second
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third
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next or then
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finally
1. Instructions:
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​​​Write for at least 10 minutes.
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Write in your journal or special writer’s notebook.
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Pick any topic you like or use the topic for today.
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2. Look Over Your Work and Ask Yourself:​
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Does my writing make sense?
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Is there a better way to say that?
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Did I try to use some interesting and descriptive words?
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Did I start with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark?
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3. Make Corrections and Changes to Your Writing.
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4. When You Are Finished:
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Scan or take a picture of your work when it is completed and upload it to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
Reading Time (10 min.)
Read something funny. You can find several books with jokes and riddles on Epic.
Math Activity (20 min.)
Choose a number:
8 or 18 or 20 or 36
Find that quantity
of items.
Quantity: A quantity
is an amount, number,
or measurement that
answers
the question 'how much?'
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You can use rocks, seeds, books, blocks, toys, or other objects you have around the house or outside.
What different ways can you decompose (break into parts) that quantity into equal groups?
For example, 10 can be decomposed into 5 and 5 or 2 and 2 and 2 and 2 and 2)?
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How will you show your thinking?
Scan or upload a picture of your work to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
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Complete a Self-Assessment
for today’s Math work using the PDF.
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Optional Math Activities:
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Sign in to Mathletics after finishing today's math assignment. Check out the “Explore” and “Play” sections.
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Choose a math game you know how to play. (You could use a 100s chart, your computer/tablet, dice or cards.)
House Points
10 Points = Make BOTH of the paper airplane models
10 Points = Share at least 6 jokes with your family
25 Points = Complete the Science experiment from Monday
Artsy Fartsy Time
Making Paper Airplanes
There are two video links to help you create two different types of paper airplanes. All you need is normal white computer printer paper.
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You can pause the videos at any time while you follow along with the instructions.
You may choose to start with a coloured piece of paper or you might use markers to colour your plane when you are finished folding.
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**Important: Always fly your paper airplanes in spaces that are safe from furniture, breakables, and people.
Level 1
Level 2
Taking Care of Myself
Using the jokes that you read today in Epic and the ‘Knock-Knock’ jokes featured here, share the jokes and a laugh with someone in your family.
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Which joke got the biggest laugh? What other jokes can you tell?
Wednesday, May 13th
Let's Write! (20 min.)
Today's Topic:
Watch the video, How to Fly a Kite.
Write a list of safety tips you need to follow when flying a kite.
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1. Instructions:
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​​​Write for at least 10 minutes.
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Write in your journal or special writer’s notebook.
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Pick any topic you like or use the topic for today.
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2. Look Over Your Work and Ask Yourself:​
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Does my writing make sense?
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Is there a better way to say that?
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Did I try to use some interesting and descriptive words?
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Did I start with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark?
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3. Make Corrections and Changes to Your Writing.
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4. When You Are Finished:
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Scan or take a picture of your work when it is completed and upload it to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
Reading Time (10 min.)
Practice “inferring” while you read.
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What do you think the author wants you to figure out?
Become a book detective! Look for clues in pictures and words and think about your “maybes” while reading the book.
Math Activity (20 min.)
Choose a number:
16 or 20 or 24 or 36
Think of a story
where you share
that number of
something
between 2 or 3
people
in your family.
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It could be cookies, toys, marbles, or anything you want to write your math story about.
Record your math story using pictures, numbers and words.
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Scan or upload a picture of your work to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
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Optional Math Activities:
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Sign in to Mathletics after finishing today's math assignment. Check out the “Explore” and “Play” sections.
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Choose a math game you know how to play. (You could use a 100s chart, your computer/tablet, dice or cards.)
Taking Care of Myself
Using the ‘Knock-Knock’ template, fill in your own ideas to create three of your own jokes.
Share your jokes with someone.
How many laughs did you get?
You've Got to Move It, Move It!
*Today's Special Task: Go for a walk, bike ride, or follow along with a dance video.
Keep track of how far you biked or walked or how long you danced.
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Email your kms or dance time to BFAkmclub@gmail.com
House Points
10 Points = Complete Kite Flying Safety Tips writing
10 Points = Create more than 4 new Knock, Knock jokes
10 Points = Do something physically active today
Thursday, May 14th
Let's Write! (20 min.)
Today's Topic:
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After several crashes, your cardboard box began to fly.
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Who has joined you on your trip?
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What did you pack?
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What special buttons, levers or equipment did you build into your box?
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How high did the box fly and what were the reactions of the people who saw you?
1. Instructions:
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​​​Write for at least 10 minutes.
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Write in your journal or special writer’s notebook.
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Pick any topic you like or use the topic for today.
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2. Look Over Your Work and Ask Yourself:​
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Does my writing make sense?
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Is there a better way to say that?
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Did I try to use some interesting and descriptive words?
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Did I start with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark?
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3. Make Corrections and Changes to Your Writing.
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4. When You Are Finished:
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Scan or take a picture of your work when it is completed and upload it to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
House Points
10 Points = Have a Spring Dance Party
10 points = Email your grand total of house points for the week to
10 Points = Email your grand total of house points for the week to housepointsbfa@gmail.com
Reading Time (10 min.)
Practice using your “Reading Powers”
while you read today.
What connections did you make?
What questions did you wonder about?
What did you visualize?
Did you infer anything while you were reading?
Story Time with The Mischievous Librarian
Today's story features a very famous
music composer named Franz Schubert.
Let's meet him before we read this week's Langley Picture Book of the Year #6:
Because - Written by Mo Willems and Illustrated
by Amber Ren
Slideshow by Mrs. MacLean
Langley Picture Book of the Year #6
Math Activity (20 min.)
An array is a quantity of items
organized into rows and columns.
Choose 12 items.
What different ways
can you organize them
into arrays?
Draw the arrays and label them with numbers.
Go to the “Activities” section of your myBlueprint account to find today’s activity and select “Start Activity.”
Scan or upload a picture of your work to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
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Complete a Self-Assessment
for today’s Math work using the PDF.
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Optional Math Activities:
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Sign in to Mathletics after finishing today's math assignment. Check out the “Explore” and “Play” sections.
or
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Choose a math game you know how to play. (You could use a 100s chart, your computer/tablet, dice or cards.)
Taking Care of Myself
Spring Dance Party:
Do each movement for 30 seconds
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Free dance
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Pretend you have a hula hoop and keep that hula up
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Wiggle while standing
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Spin to the left, then to the right using airplane arms
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Two-foot hop and backward swim with your arms
Follow along with Mr. and Mrs. Thiessen as they dance to Dance Monkey by Tones and I.