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.).
Monday, May 18th
Victoria Day
Tuesday, May 19th
Let's Write! (20 min.)
Today's Topic:
Find an image of a pirate or use the one provided.
Describe how the pirate looks, smells, sounds, and acts.
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.)
Pay attention to quotation marks and change your voice to match who is talking.
Math Activity (20 min.)
Show an amount of money using
six coins.
How else could you show this amount?
Repeat for two other amounts.
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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.)
Taking Care of Myself (20 min.)
*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 = Write more than 6 sentences about your pirate.
25 Points = Make your treasure map paper
Artsy Fartsy Time
Making a Treasure Map ~ Part 1
Mrs. Huang is excited to make pirate treasure maps with you this week!
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Today is Part 1 : Preparing the Paper
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There are 2 ways to prepare your paper: the messy way (adult supervision required) and the less messy way (no adult needed).
Tea Bag Dyeing
Materials:
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1 - 5 bags of regular black tea
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kettle
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water
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cookie tray
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spoon
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glass bowl or measuring cup (holds bowling water)
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plain white computer paper
Crayon Shading
Materials:
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plain white computer paper
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yellow crayon
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brown crayon
Wednesday, May 20th
Let's Write! (20 min.)
Today's Topic:
Your pirate has been getting into trouble again and there are wanted posters up around town for his capture.
What is the pirate’s name?
What trouble did they cause?
What will the reward be for their capture?
Here are a fabulous list of pirate sayings and a word bank of pirate related words:
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 aloud to a partner and make
your reading sound smooth.
Math Activity (20 min.)
Choose one of the following
and name a number for each description.
1. Name a number…
a) close to 5
b) close to 20
c) closer to 5 than 20
d) closer to 10 than 5
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2. Name a number…
a) close to 50
b) close to 200
c) closer to 50 than 200
d) closer to 100 than 50
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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
Follow along with Mr. Thiessen singing "Mr. T. Has Many Kids".
Artsy Fartsy Time
House Points
15 Points = Make a Most Wanted Pirate poster
10 Points = Listen to Mr. Thiessen's music video
10 Points = Participate in Making a Treasure Map Part 2
Some music to get you in the pirate-y mood:
Making a Treasure Map - Part 2
Follow along with Mrs. Huang as she begins to explore the special landforms needed on a treasure map.
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Today is Part 2 : Drawing Landforms
Thursday, May 21st
Let's Write! (20 min.)
Today's Topic:
Pretend you are the captain of a pirate ship.
Use the Captain’s Log to describe what a day on a pirate ship would look like.
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Who is on your crew?
Where do you sail?
What chores need to be done on the ship?
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.)
Use your Reading Powers to connect, question, visualize, and infer while you read.
Story Time with The Mischievous Librarian
How to Code a Sandcastle
Written by Josh Funk
Illustrated by Sara Palacios
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Slideshow by Mrs. MacLean
Langley Picture Book of the Year #7
Math Activity (20 min.)
Choose 5 numbers less than 100.
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Choose 5 numbers less than 1000.
Put them in order from
least to greatest.
Tell how you know which
number is least.
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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.)
Artsy Fartsy Time
Making a Treasure Map - Part 3
It's time to start drawing on our amazing treasure maps!​
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Youtube Art teacher, Mr. Mayberry, will be showing you how to draw a map compass.
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Today is Part 3 : Island and Compass
Taking Care of Myself
*Today's Special Task: ​
Play Face Off with someone in your family.
House Points
10 Points = Complete a self assessment about your math work today
10 Points = Work on your treasure map today
10 Points = Play a game with your family
Friday, May 22nd
Let's Write! (20 min.)
Reading Time (10 min.)
Tell someone in your family about what you read today.
Math Activity (20 min.)
Today's Topic:
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Study the image provided before choosing one idea to write about:
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What is the creature beneath the ocean’s surface? (name, description, favourite foods, things it likes to do)
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Write about a FAILED attempt by the pirates to get past the creature with their treasure. (What did they do and what went wrong?)
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Write a step-by-step list of how you would SUCCESSFULLY get past the creature without causing harm to anyone involved.
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
30 Points = Complete your pirate writing
20 Points = Finish your treasure map and send a picture of it to Mrs. Huang housepointsbfa@gmail.com
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
There are a lot of bikes in the park.
If you counted
the wheels on all
the bikes,
how many might
there be?
How many wheels
could there not be?
Think of 3 or more possibilities.
You could draw a picture, use repeated addition
or multiplication.
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.)
Adventures with Miss Carlyn
Listen to Miss Carlyn's story
"Fishing with Grandma"
Artsy Fartsy Time
Making a Treasure Map - Part 4
We are almost done our maps!
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Time to add special features and of course, the treasure too!
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Today is Part 4 : Finishing the Map