Grade 4 Weekly Learning Plan (Bird Theme)- April 13th-17th
Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Choose Spelling Journal Writing Choose word Journal Writing- Choose word list
word list and do —There are list and do an You have been and do an
an activity from many birds activity from watching birds activity from
Spelling Menu returning to Spelling Menu this week. What Spelling Menu
LA Warmup
Saint John. is a question
(10 mins)
What is your that you have
favourite kind of about birds and
bird and why do their behavior?
you like it?
Share the Write about Edit your writing Start collecting Start putting the
Acrostic Easter How to Make a for spelling and information for information that
poem that you Bird Feeder. punctuation. your bird report. you’ve collected
wrote last week. Don’t forget a Write a good See the into a booklet or
Read it to your title, goal, list of copy and add an information powerpoint so
LA-Writing family materials and illustration. below. Sample that you can
(15-30 mins) members. Call a steps. Follow Challenge: give report template share what you
family member the Procedure your attached. have learned.
& read your Writing instructions to
poem. Checklist someone else
(attached) and see if they
can follow them.
Practice basic Practice basic Practice basic Practice basic Practice basic
Multiplication Addition Subtraction Multiplication Addition
Math-warm up
Facts-play math Facts-play math Facts-play math Facts-play math Facts-play math
(5-10 mins)
game online or game online or game online or game online or game online or
with cards with cards with cards with cards with cards
Standard Standard Basic Basic Multiplication
Multiplication 2 Multiplication 2 Multiplication Multiplication Mash Up Song
digit x 1 digit digit x 1 digit Facts Facts -choose any
Math-
-play Multi Digit -practice -practice basic -practice card game (from
2 digit x 1 digit
Multiplication standard multiplication standard attached card
multiplication
Number Battle multiplication facts by playing I multiplication game sheet)
(15 minutes)
(see attached practice sheet Spy Products on white board,
card games) (attached) game (attached) paper, practice
pages (attached)
Reading a graph: Watch the birds Using the blank Ask someone
complete the in your sheet (or a piece questions about
bird pictograph neighborhood – of paper) create your graph like:
Math- activity sheet keep a tally a pictograph of Which bird did I
Graphing (attached) chart for each the birds you’ve see more often?
type of bird that seen this week – The least? How
you spot Don’t forget a many birds did I
title and a scale! see in all?
Grade 4 Weekly Learning Plan (Bird Theme)- April 13th-17th
Play Prodigy Play Prodigy Play Prodigy Play Prodigy Play Prodigy
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Extra Math -If game of choice game of choice game of choice game of choice game of choice
time from Useful from Useful from Useful from Useful from Useful
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website website website website website
Create a Observation Have any birds Listen to the Create a science
birdfeeder from Journal-draw visited your Bird Sounds journal entry
things around and label what feeder this Video and see with
your home/yard your birdfeeder week? Write which ones you observations
– this website looks like. down some know and which about one of the
has many ideas! observations ones have been birds that you
Science https://kidactiviti about the birds in your yard or have seen this
es.net/bird- or other neighbourhood week. Add an
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visit it. Is there ube.com/watch? descriptive
anything that v=mfFldO-B8vE words.
you could
improve?
Create an Use ArtHub and Egg Float If you have Play the
outdoor sketch a robin Experiment: baking National
scavenger hunt https://www.yout Place a ingredients, Geographic Kids
with a focus on ube.com/watch? hardboiled egg bake some “bird Bird Memory
items that a bird v=jyvfLcCiD-w in water. The nest” treats. Be Game (can be
might use to egg will sink. sure to ask for played online)
build a nest ie What do you permission! https://www.natg
twigs, yarn, think will Some ideas: eokids.com/au/pl
Extra Science
grass etc. happen when https://kidactiviti ay-and-
(when/if time)
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the water?
*Read and fill in Reading Log (30 minutes per day)
*Physical Activity (30 minutes per day) Fitness Calendar Attached for ideas
Grade 4 Weekly Learning Plan (Bird Theme)- April 13th-17th
Spelling Lists - Focus for this week: ge,gi,gy, hard “g”
List A: gentle, ginger, gym, gone, change, along, sugar
List B: generous, engine, geology, dragon, guess, garage, guard
List C: generosity, gigantic, ecology, oxygen, beverage, vegetable, disgusting
Words for Everyone: family, later, turn, move, face
Bird Report: Choose a Canadian bird and find out: their size, where they live, the colors of the males vs. females,
what their eggs look like, what their nests look like., what they eat, weight & height, where it lives and where it migrates
to, lifespan Extra challenge: see if you can find the song that they sing, You should have an illustration of the bird and
their egg.
Some sample birds: black-capped chickadee robin Canada Goose
pine grosbeak downy woodpecker starling crow
cardinal peregrine falcon blue jay goldfinch
hummingbird pileated woodpecker killdeer tern
grey jay cedar waxwing robin sandpiper
hummingbird yellow bellied sapsucker barred owl wood duck
bald eagle golden eagle seagull
Bird Sounds Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfFldO-B8vE
Identifying Birds Poster https://feederwatch.org/learn/identifying-birds/
National Geographic Kids Bird Memory Game: https://www.natgeokids.com/au/play-and-
win/games/birds-memory/
Bird Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vL_2rF8JHU
