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Week 7 ​(May 19-22) 

(Note: Monday, May 18th is Victoria Day - Enjoy your long weekend!) 
Please choose 1 literacy and 1 math activity to share with your teacher this 
week. You can take a picture or short video and send it via email.  

Literacy  Math  
Reading  We are starting work on measurement 
● Remember to read a good-fit  for the next few weeks. 
book for 30 minutes every day.   
Let’s keep those skills sharp!  Activity #1 
Pick an object as your measuring tool. 
● Read​ this passage ​about Great 
Use the T-chart to find items that are 
White Sharks and answer the 
lighter or heavier than your measuring 
comprehension questions.  tool. Record the items you measure 
  under each column. Choose three 
Writing  different sized objects to use for each 
● Listen/watch I​ f I built a School​ by  chart. Use the same items you 
Chris Van Dusen  measured for the first chart for each of 
● Design your dream school! Use  the other charts. See my example. 
this page​ to draw your dream   
school and write out the details.  T-chart sheet 
Remember:   
❖ Use at least five colours in  Why do you think the items in each 
your picture and don’t  chart changed when you used a 
leave too much white  different measuring tool? Write your 
space.  answer on the bottom of one of the 
❖ Capitals and punctuation.  charts. 
❖ G.U.M.   
❖ Try for 5-7 sentences (or  Example of doing activity #1 
more if you like!)   
● Fix the Sentence​ practice. 
 
Word Work 
● Learn about singular and plural 
nouns and complete these 
practice pages​. 
● Look out your window or go 
outside. Find some item(s) from 
nature, draw a picture of the 
item(s) and label the picture with 
the parts. Extension: do some 
research on one item, learn 3 
new facts about it. 
   
Activity #2  
 
Watch the video: 
 
kilograms and grams video 
 
Remember: 
1000 g = 1 kg 
 
List things that would be light and 
things that would be heavy. Estimate 
how many of the lighter things you 
would need to be equal to the heavier 
thing. For example, Three hard covered 
books would be about the same weight 
as a pot. List as many as you can. 

  

light  heavy 

3 hardcover books  1 cooking pot 

     

5 cooking pots    1 chair 

  

Activity #3 
Complete the following sheets (please 
remember to do what works for you and 
your child) 

Estimating grams and kilograms sheet 

Estimating grams and kilograms sheet 2 

More or less worksheet 

 
Converting grams and kilograms 
worksheet 
 
 
Challenging measurement

Make sure you fully understand the above

concepts before trying these.

Metric weight video

Converting metric units video

Metric unit conversion grams and kilograms

sheet
 Metric unit conversion kilograms to tonnes
sheet 

Science 
Spring is the perfect time of year to learn about animal habitats! We will add some 
STEM activities here to challenge the students to learn about how animals survive 
in their environments. 
Please note: This activity will be posted for the next t​ wo weeks​ (weeks 6 & 7) so 
you don’t need to rush through it! 
 
Click here to learn about dams and then design your own! 

Social Studies 
Link to a Weebly site for activities around Aboriginal Peoples. This can be worked 
on over the next few weeks. 
http://jcconnections.weebly.com/ 
Password: cuties2 
 
 

Wellness 
● A great site for getting moving h
​ ttps://family.gonoodle.com/ 

● What’s Your Name?​ Workout for kids: 

 
 
● Jump Up​ - Just Dance Kids 
 
● What is mindfulness and how do you do it? Learn with​ Cosmic Kids Zen 
 Den​. 

Extensions 
● More cursive writing practice pages: L ​ owercase k-o​. 
 
● Fine Arts: Ms. MacKinnon​ has created a fantastic page on our site with Fine 
Arts activities! You can find it under the “more” tab on our Forest Park 
Primary site or click the link above.  
 
● Splashmath  
 
● RAZ Kids for levelled books  
 
● Lexia Learning (​ Mrs. Losell’s class only)  
 
● Tumblebooks for read-along books  
username​: tumble735​ password​: books 
 
● Storyline Online for picture book read-alouds  
 
As we navigate this new way of learning, NLPS asks that we work
together ensuring the content we share with your child is accurate and
to assist in monitoring their online activity. Together, we can create a
safe learning environment for your child.