Math Games To Try At Home

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks is a website full of ideas for math games that can be played at home with cards and dice.  There are reproducibles and You Tube videos to demonstrate each game. Below is the video for the Knock Off The Clock game that can be used for addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.

Click here to visit the Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks webpage for a full list of activities!

Free Audible Books

Audible is offering a small selection of their books free to students during this time.  You can see what is available by visiting the link below.  There are books in both French and English.

Free Audible Stories for Elementary School Students

Listen to the Magic Tree House Series

Starting this week, author Mary Pope Osborne will be sharing her Magic Tree House books online.  She will be reading her books, answering questions and has included craft ideas, activities and more!



https://www.magictreehouse.com/go/

The Rabbit Listened

This Surrey Picture Book of the year nominee by Cori Doerrfeld is a sweet story about empathy, kindness and the power of listening.

Suggested Activity:
-Draw and describe a time when you felt frustrated (click here for template)

View Canadian Films Online

Reel Canada is offering their collection of Canadian films online free of charge during the school closures.
They offer films for various age groups, and have both French and English titles.

https://www.reelcanada.ca

Found

Another one of our Surrey Picture Book of the Year nominees is the wordless picture book Found by Jeff Newman and illustrated by Larry Day.
Check out the video reading and suggested activities below.

Suggested Activities:
-Create a missing poster for any animal or stuffy 
-Draw your own wordless picture book (click here for template)

Surrey Book of the Year- Chapter Books

Check out this sway for where to read this year's Surrey Book of the Year nominees.  Read at least 5 titles and vote for your favourite at the end of May!

Surrey Schools Book of the Year

Nominees for 2019 - 20 with How to Access & How to Vote

Go to this Sway

Earth Day is April 22nd

Here is author Todd Parr reading his book "The Earth Book"

E-Books and Audiobooks at Home

E-Books

Click on image to visit webpage

Crabtree Publishers is offering their collection of E-Books free until June 30th.

If you haven't already checked out Epic Books, they have a great selection of e-books available.  My son found "Garfield" on there yesterday, which is definitely a popular title at our school library!




Audiobooks- Download the "Libby" app from the App Store.  All you need is your Surrey Library card to sign in.  If you don't have a library card, you can now sign up online!

The Remember Balloons

One of the books nominated this year for the Surrey Picture Book of the Year Award is
The Remember Balloons written by Jessie Oliveros and illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte.

Suggested Activity:
Draw and describe a special memory inside the shape of a balloon. Color, or glue coloured tissue paper over the shape.

The Remember Balloons Reproducible Activity

ACCESSING E-BOOKS

Watch the screencast below for detailed instructions on how to access e-books from our school library catalog!

Science World- Watch Documentaries Online

Now you can watch some of Science World's wonderful documentaries from home. Check out all of their available films here

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs 

Wild Ocean

Dinosaurs Alive

Children's Authors Doing Read Alouds

The following link is an extensive list of authors who are currently doing daily or weekly read alouds or activities.  Check it out!

Children's Authors Doing Online Read Alouds and Activities

Surrey Picture Book of the Year

Each year, ten recently published picture books are nominated for the SURREY PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR award.

After reading all ten books, students vote for their favorite.  The votes are tallied for students all over the Surrey school district and the winning book receives an award sticker for the front cover.  It is a lot of fun!

Just before spring break, several of our primary classes read one of the nominated books called "Petra"

In the story, Petra (who is a rock) imagines she is all sorts of different things.....a mountian, an egg, an island, an elephant etc.

After reading the story, students in Div. 12, 13 and 14 imagined what Petra might be on her next adventure and completed their own 'Petras' using construction paper and various craft supplies.

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