Mrs. Thiessen's Classroom

  Earth Day colouring pages Videos to Watch for Earth Day: The Lorax Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore) Franklin's Earth Day     starting at 11:40 min. Books to Listen to for Earth Day: Little Critter It's Earth Day Mrs. Fox's Class Goes Green Crafts to Make for Earth Day: It's a Wonderful World      What do you love about this world we live in?  Paint a picture! Tissue Box crafts Toilet Paper Roll Cars Paper and Recycling Crafts from Pinterest

11 Free Reading Websites for Kids This website contains websites for listening to and looking at stories as well as reading and letter games.  One of the free reading/letter games sites suggested on this website is  ABCya!   Reading Eggs    This website looks pretty good.  I tried the free trial.  It give children a placement assessment to get them going at an appropriate level and then has lessons, games and books for your child at the correct level.  You can register a number of children so each child is working at their own pace.  It doesn't indicate on this page how much a subscription costs after the 2 week free trial. Reading Eggs is designed to make learning to read fun, easy and highly rewarding for children aged 2–13 . The program includes hundreds of online reading lessons , thousands of interactive reading games and over 2000 online books that children love—and it really works! Register now for your 2 week FREE trial of Reading Eggs

A MONSTER TRUCK review on how to add can be found at Learn Math for Kids: Monster Truck Adding And here is a song for memorizing Addition Facts:   Addition Facts Song   Instructions for how to make a cute sock bunny:  Cute Sock Bunny Ideas and instructions for how to make paper plate spring animals:  Springtime Animals Some songs to help burn off some energy!   Shake Your Sillies Out  Clean My Room Wonky Donkey Song Have a great week!  Enjoy the outdoors!

Spring Break is just around the corner!  Though this year's spring break promises to be different than most others, I hope you will all be able to find something new, unusual, interesting and inspiring to do that will set this week apart. Here are some ideas for you to consider: 1.  Get Outside! Not all of these ideas will work in an era of social distancing but here are some ideas to get the creative juices flowing!   50 Fun Free Spring Activities   2.  Read a new book! If you haven't already checked out  Scholastic's Learn at Home Program , today is the day to do it!  It has fabulous stories to watch and read and activities and lessons that go along with the stories.  You can select the appropriate grade level for your child. 3.  Learn something new! National Geographic Kids is a great website for learning about animals, places on earth and science.  There are games, videos, quizzes, brain boosters and scientific information.   4.  Make something!

Here's a really great book for kids that explains COVID-19.  It's written in simple language that's easy to understand, but also tackles some of the big questions surrounding this issue.  You have to scroll down a ways down the page on this website but you can access the book for free. A Kids Book About COVID-19

  For some "make-at-home" math games, check out this Collection of Math Games . These can be made with things you already have at home and will make learning fun!