FIRST GRADE E-LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Week 3

MATH
● Oral Counting:​ Practice counting backwards from 120 by 1s.
● Counting:​ Count the people that live in your house with you. How many toes do they have altogether?
How many fingers?
● Shapes:​ Make a picture using 2 circles, 3 triangles, and some rectangles. Explain how you made it to
someone!
● Estimation:​ Guess how many bites it will take to finish your meal. Count each biteas you eat. How
close were you to your guess?
● More/Less:​ Go around your house and count the windows and doors. Are there more windows or
doors? Draw the one with more.

Additional Math practice (optional):

Sign-in to ​www.reflexmath.com​or w ​ ww.student.freckle.com​for more math practice

LITERACY
● Fluency​:​ Practice your fluency by reading the article “Animals Like to Eat” out loud to someone in your
house.
● Reading​: Read the article “Animals Like to Eat.” Answer the questions in the “Reading” section of your
activity packet.
○ Main idea:​ find the main idea of the article, and two details that support the main idea.
● Reading​: Read the article “Animals Like to Eat.” Answer the questions in the “Reading” section of your
activity packet.
○ Answer Questions:​answer the questions about what animals like to eat.
● Reading​: Read the article “Animals Like to Eat.” Answer the questions in the “Reading” section of your
activity packet.
○ Compare and Contrast​: find the similarities and differences between two animals.
● Reading​: Read the article “Animals Like to Eat.” Answer the questions in the “Reading” section of your
activity packet.
○ Ask Questions: ​what questions do you still have about what animals eat?

Additional daily activities (optional). This free resource has many online resources and books by grade
level. Simply go to the following website: www.scholastic.com/learnathome

SCIENCE/PLTW
● Asking Questions and Classifying: What am I?​ Make a list of animals. Find or draw a picture of
each animal. Play a game of animal charades with a partner who will try to guess the animal. How
were the animals that were guessed (but were incorrect) similar to the animal that you were acting out?
● Engineering Design: Organize a Zoo:​ Imagine you are building a Zoo using the animals from your
game of charades. How could you organize the animals based on similarities? Make a list of the
animals using two different ways (ex.Could you sort them by how they move, how they eat, by color, or
by size?) Draw your design.
● Engineering Challenge: Mimicking Animal Parts:​ Read: Polar bears have thick fur that helps them
stay warm in the cold places where they live in the Arctic. But penguins don’t have fur! Penguins have

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 feathers that keep them warm. Seals can also live in cold places. But seals don’t have feathers. They
have a thick layer of fat called blubber. Let’s use what you have learned about animal parts. Your
challenge: Design a glove that keeps your hand warm when placed in ice water. Which materials are
like feathers? Which materials are like fur? Which materials are like blubber? Which materials do you
think will be best for keeping your hand warm? What are some ways you could build your glove? Pick
these materials and build your glove. As you work, think about: How will you test the glove? How can
you mimic animal parts? What will happen to the materials when they get wet? Let’s test your designs!
Fill a bowl with ice water. Put your glove on one hand. Put both hands in the water: one with the glove
and one without a glove. Pull out your hands as soon as they feel too cold. Which materials worked
best to keep your hand warm? Which materials did not work well?
● Investigation: Light​: Use a light source (lamp or window). Find 3 objects that are see through. Find 3
objects that are kind of see through. Find 3 objects that are not see through. Draw or list your results.
● Communicating Science:​ Imagine you are in a dark place, but you have a light to help you see. Write
and illustrate a book about this experience. Think about where you are. It might be a cave or a closet
or some other dark place. Think about what kind of light you are using to see things. It might be a
flashlight, a candle, or a lantern. Think about what you might see. Plan your story. Beginning: I am in
a dark ______. I have a ______. Middle: I see ______. I see _______. End: I _____. Now, make
your book: Draw pictures and write words on the pages. Number the pages to show the order. Make a
front cover and a back cover. Write a title on the cover. Draw a picture of the storm. Don’t forget to
draw a picture of the author (you!) on the back cover. On the first page, draw a picture and write about
where you are. On the next two pages, draw pictures and write about what you see. On the last page,
draw a picture and write about what happens. Number the pages to show the order. Make a front
cover and a back cover. Don’t forget to draw a picture of the author (you!) on the back cover.
● Observation:​ Find a spot inside or outside that you can sit for 5 minutes. Mark an area that you will
observe with a circle (ex. a hula hoop, yarn tied in a circle, or socks laid out in a circle). Observe that
area for 5 minutes without talking to anyone. Draw or write what you observe. Be sure to use your
eyes, ears, noses, and sense of touch.

SOCIAL STUDIES
● Geography​:​ Look outside and find the sun. If it’s morning, the sun is in the East. If it’s afternoon, the
sun is in the West. Write down one thing that is East of your home and one thing that is West of your
home.
● Community​: ​Read a book (or ask someone to read one to you). Pick a character in the book. List
ways that the character is SIMILAR to you and ways the character is DIFFERENT from you.
● Community​:​ Think about a friend. List ways you and your friend are SIMILAR and list ways you are
DIFFERENT. Write about why you are friends.
● Civics/Rules​: ​Talk about how rules are made in your classroom. Who makes them and why?
● Civics/Rules​: ​Talk about how classroom rules apply to other community settings. (e.g. Rule:” Keeping
hands to yourself.” How does this apply in a store or at Boy/Girl Scouts?)

SEL
● With an adult, create a goal on how you will finish the school year regarding your grades.
● With an adult, establish a place in your home which can be your place to calm down when you have
intense emotions.
● With an adult, discuss cultural traditions they had growing up.
● Give at least 5 compliments to people you interact with during the week.
● Create a role play that includes someone having a problem and how they solve the problem.
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Specials:​ For each day we are out of school, please choose one of the specials listed below and complete one
of the assignments listed.

ART
● Using any materials you would like, choose one of the items below and complete the
assignment in your sketchbook. If you do not have your sketchbook, feel free to complete the
assignment on whatever paper you have available. Be sure to think about the concepts you
have learned in class and try to incorporate and identify them in your picture.
○ Thick and Thin Lines. Tactile Texture. Primary and Secondary Colors. Light, Medium,
and Dark Value. Organic and Geometric Shapes. Patterns. Overlapping.

Sketchbook Ideas to Choose From:

● Pretend you are an ant. Draw what you would see if you were an ant.
● Create a picture of what the worst thing about being a kid is? OR Create a picture of
what the best thing about being a kid is?
● Create a picture of where you would go if you were invisible. Write 1 or 2 sentences to
describe why you would go to this place.
● If 2 of your family members or friends turned into animals, what animals would they be?
Write 1 or 2 sentences to describe each animal and create a picture of these 2 animals.
● What is something you are good at? Create a picture of you doing what you are good
at.

P.E.
● Do 20 jumping jacks, 10 sit ups and 10 push ups
● Stand on one foot and count to 30, stand on the other foot and count to 30
● Listen to your favorite song and play freeze dance:ask a family member to play the song and pause
the song at random times in the song. Remember you have to freeze when the music stops playing.
● Jump with two feet together 10 times, jump on your right foot 10 times and jump on your left foot 10
times
● Ask a family member to play catch with you: practice pointing and throwing, two hands in front to catch

MUSIC
● Create a song with high and low sounds using different items around the house.
● Listen to a song you like, and move your body fast and slow to the rhythm.
● Sing a song you really like to someone in your family.
● Ask your parents to call another family member or a friend who doesn’t live in your house, and sing
them a song.

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ELA - 1st Grade, Week 3 Handouts

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Fluency 
Read the article out loud to someone in your house. Try to do your best to read smoothly 
and stop at all the punctuation marks!  
 
Reading 
 
1. [Main idea 5.1, Key Details 5.2] ​Find the main idea of the article and find two details 
that support the main idea. 
 
Main   
Idea   
 
 
Detail #1   
 
 
 
 
Detail #2   
 
 
 
 
 
2. [Answer Questions 4.1]  
 
What do bears like to eat? ____________________________ 

What do birds like to eat? _____________________________ 

What do lions like to eat? _____________________________ 

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3. [Compare and Contrast 9.1, 9.2] ​Choose two animals that you read about. Compare 

and contrast them using what you read and what you already know about that 

animal. 

 
 

4. [Ask Questions 4.1] ​Think about what you read. What questions do you still have 

about what animals eat? Write two questions here.  

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