Bixby First Grade Learning Menu: Summer Time! Throughout the week we will be learning about Summer! What is your favorite thing about summer? Where would you like to vacation? What are your favorite at home activities? What is your favorite thing about America?
Recommended time to complete daily lesson: 45 minutes Please choose each day: 1 activity from each of the following: Reading/Writing, Math, Sci/Social Studies, Specials
Parents: Please feel free to modify any of these activities, making them more challenging or less challenging as you see fit. Students are welcome to write on paper, record on a computer, take a photo, and/or verbally discuss results with someone else. Please encourage your student to read independently each day for pleasure and to write creatively (poems, songs, letters, stories, journaling, etc.)
Virtual Field Trip: Parents feel free to take a virtual field trip to Ellis Island to visit the Statue of Liberty. Virtual Field Trip to Ellis Island
Reading/Writing Math Sci/Social Studies Specials
Write out these sight words Using different shapes, Pick a U.S. symbol from LET’S GET UP AND on a piece of paper. Then create a picture of a U.S. the list below: MOVE! put them on the floor. Call Symbol or a vacation Bald Eagle 1. Play hopscotch! out the words as you jump destination. United States Flag 2. Jump rope and count on the word. *Try to include: Squares, Liberty Bell to 30! Jump Circles, Triangles, The Statue of Liberty 3. Run around your Play Rectangles, Rhombus, Write 3-5 sentences house while counting to Over Ovals, Trapezoids, describing the symbol 50! Know Hexagons, and Octagons. that you choose. 4. Find a partner and Good play Row Row Row your Does boat! Day Where
Use the following words and Complete the word Create a Venn Diagram or Look for your favorite put them in ABC order: problem below: use the one below to American Flag Sun I traveled ten miles on compare and contrast throughout history and Play Monday. I then traveled vacationing to different draw the one you like Vacation five miles on Tuesday. locations such as the the most. Bicycle How many miles have I mountains and beach. *Bonus: Use items from Popscicle traveled on vacation? your house to fill in the Hot colors of your flag. Fun Create two more addition Examples: cotton balls, Eagle word problems that relate popsicle sticks, stickers, to summer and share with glitter, toothpicks, a loved one! magazine pictures, etc.
Read any story. Discuss the Make 3 different sizes of Pretend you are going Imagine you are a setting of the story. Is that a paper airplanes and fly swimming! Brainstorm dessert creator. Create place that you would want them. Did they all go the and/or research water a new ice cream flavor, to go on vacation? Write same distance? If not, safety. Create a sign for odd-shaped popsicle, or about why or why not. which size went the “pool rules” including another delicious cool farthest? Measure the complete sentences and treat for the distance each plane went illustrations. summertime and by counting the number illustrate your idea! of steps taken to reach the plane.
Pretend you are planning a Do jumping jacks and skip Water conservation is Listen to or Sing your vacation. Would you go to count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s about using water wisely, favorite patriotic song. the mountains or the beach? to 120. and not wasting it. What Some examples: Write about where you are some ways you can This Land is Your Land, would go. Illustrate your save water during the Star Spangled Banner, story. Read your story and summer? Do some Grand Ole Flag. show your illustration to a research or ask a family friend or family member. member, and create a poster informing others of your ideas to save water (include pictures).
Read a story and design a Complete the word Draw a compass rose on Trace your feet on travel brochure or poster to problem below: your driveway with chalk paper. Draw a large create excitement about the Mom bought a box of or on a piece of paper. oval around each foot destination you are learning twenty popsicles. My Include north, south, that you traced on the about. friends and I ate seven east, and west. Circle the paper. Design some popsicles. How many direction your school is cool summer flip flops popsicles are left? from your home. What for your feet to stay direction does your home cool! Create two more face? subtraction word problems that relate to summer.
Create an Acrostic Poem The ice cream man visited Create your own Create a song about using your favorite thing or our street. He was selling playdough at home! Mix: your favorite part of activity about Summer. Use ice cream for 25 cents 1 cup of flour. ½ cup of summer to the tune of an adjective each. I bought ice cream salt. ½ cup of water. Mix Rain, Rain, Go Away. that begins with each letter for myself and my 3 with hands. to describe your favorite friends. How much thing or activity. money do I owe the ice An example: cream man? Sunny Wet Insects Mud Add an illustration to your poem.
Venn Diagram:
Vacationing at the Beach Similarities Vacationing in the Mountains (Differences) (Differences)
Compass Rose: