Week Three – Lesson One

“Grow, Flower, Grow”

Parent information: Kids do: Assessment:
Activity Show students Mrs. Harris reading “Grow, Flower, Grow” in the following video: Listen to story. Take a picture of your
One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBNneZjdmeM&t=1s labelled diagram. Send
Watch “The Needs of it to your teacher via
Ask your student to think about the needs of a plant as he or she listens to the story. After Plants” video. classdojo or email.
the story, ask your student to draw a picture of a flower (or other kind of plant) and label
the things it needs (i.e. space, soil, water, sunlight). Draw a picture of a flower
(or other kind of plant)
For a fun song about the needs of plants, watch the following video: and label it with all the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBIQ1fTRzI things it needs. We call a
drawing like this a
“diagram”. We often use
diagrams to explain
scientific ideas.
Activity Sight Word Practice Have fun practicing your Take a picture of one
Two We have 5 new sight words for your child to practice this week. sight words! word that you wrote.
- make, take, white, who, as Send it to your teacher
via classdojo or e-mail.
Do a rainbow write! Write each of the words in red, then trace over them with orange,
yellow, green, blue and purple. Check out Mrs. Craven’s example on the class website
under the lesson one tab. Don’t they look pretty? 
Activity Teachers have assigned new books for your child to read in their Epic account. Make sure Log on to your Epic
Three to read 20 minutes a day! You can also use you RAZ Kids account for more books! Each account. Check your
week teachers will provide a new reading fluency or comprehension strategy that you can mailbox – this is where
Guided practice with your child to really strengthen their literacy skills. your teacher has put your
Reading Please have your child read 20 minutes a day. You can help by assigned reading!
listening to them read, reminding them to read or reading to
Daily them!
Activity
Reading Strategy: Stretchy Snake –If you are stuck on a word,
look at the letters and sound out the word slowly – stretch it out!