Mrs. McNeely

Welcome to the Reading Room with Mrs. McNeely 

Hello! Family and Friends.  I miss you all!  Here are some web-sites that I have found for you to venture on while being at home.  Please feel free to email me with any question or if there is something you need, I will do my best to find that for you!  I will update this weekly with fun activities and ideas to keep your little ones reading away!


Literacy Website for Kids Girl Wearing Polka Dot Dress.png

Storyline Online

http://www.storylineonline.net


Read to Me

http://readtomelv.com

Starfall

http://starfall.com

 


Websites with Free Access 

Code: SCHOOL5853

abcmouse.com/redeem

readingiq.com/reedem

adventureacademy.com/redeem



Resources from the Bedford Libraries 

If you need books go online reserve them and

 they will pull the books and have them ready for

curbside pick-up!


Story Time from Home!

Homer
Famous stories read online for free with an email subscription!  www.learnwithhomer.com/library/stories


Just Books Read Aloud
964 children's books read aloud onscreen. Some stories are also available in other languages!
www.justbooksreadaloud.com


Magic Blox
Get one free book a month from an online children's book library!
www.magicblox.com


Mrs. P's Magic Library 
An award-winning free storybooks destination!
www.mrsp.com

Vooks
An online collection of beautiful storybooks storybooks brought to life onscreen.  Join for a free one month trial!
www.vooks.com





Here are some ideas per grade level to work on from now to the end of the school year.  When using the choice boards feel free to complete 2-3 a week.  If you complete one send it to me in an email!  [email protected] 

Kindergarten 


Find ten things in your house that start with each letter of the alphabet and draw a picture of them in your packet.

Read a story with your family. Then retell the story with the book closed! Check back to see how much you remembered.

Find one thing in your house that begins with each letter of the alphabet.

Help your family make lunch or dinner. With each ingredient you use, tell them what letter sounds you hear. (ex: in “egg” we hear /e/ and /g/)

Quiz your family on what sounds are at the beginning or end of words. See if you can stump them!

Make up a game using word sounds to play with your family.

Tell a story that goes along with your favorite picture book.

Draw 10 pictures and then tell a story to your family that goes with them.

Use chalk or markers or crayons to make silly letters for each letter in the alphabet.

Make up a rhyme poem and tell it to your family.

Make up a silly poem with all the words starting with the same sound. (like the favorite book with a “fiffer feffer feff”!)

Read a Dr. Seuss book, or listen to one online.

While listening to a book with your family, stop a few times and talk about what is going on in the story.

Create a make-believe or pretend animal for each of the letter sounds. Draw a picture!

Draw the letters in salt, shaving cream, sugar, or sand (ask a parent first!) to practice what they look like and what sound they make.

 

First Grade

Tell a story that goes along with your favorite picture book.

While listening to a book with your family, stop a few times and talk about what is going on in the story.

Read a story with your family. Then retell the story with the book closed! Check back to see how much you remembered.

Read two favorite books. Talk about how they are the same and how they are different.

Draw 10 pictures and then tell a story to your family that goes with them.

While reading a favorite book, find five tricky words and figure out how to pronounce them.

Read the same story out loud every day for a week. On Friday, tell a parent about how you think your reading got better that week.

Read three favorite books today.

Listen to a family member read you their favorite story. Ask them which part is their favorite and why.

Make up a story. Ask an adult to write it down as you tell it so you can read it later.

Read a book out loud. Tell what the problem is and how they solved it.

Describe the characters in a favorite story. What makes them unique?

Listen to a favorite book, then write down or tell a parent all the words that describe something (colors, sizes, age, smelliness, etc.).Use the pictures to help you.

While reading a book with your family, stop and talk about what clues you hear that help you guess what is coming next.

Find all the word wall words you can while reading one book.

 

Second Grade
Practice sight words on mrsperkins.com/dolch  

Read a book of your choice. Find all the words with the “ea” sound you hear in EAT and write them down.

Read a book of your choice. Find all the words with the “ea” sound you hear in BREAD and write them down.

Read a book of your choice. Find all the words with the “ea” sound you hear in STEAK and write them down.

Play a game that uses words (boggle, scrabble, bananagrams, etc) with your family.

Make up a word game that you can play with your family. Create the pieces with things you find in your house.

Read a book of your choice. Find all the words that have a long-u sound. Write those words in columns by how the sound is spelled. (ex: ew words together, ue words together, u_e words together)

Read a book of your choice. Find all the words that have a long-e sound. Write those words in columns by how the sound is spelled. (ex: ey words together, ei words together, e_e words together)

Read a book of your choice. Find all the words that have a long-a sound. Write those words in columns by how the sound is spelled. (ex: ay words together, ai words together, a_e words together)

Read a book of your choice. Find all the words that have a long-i sound. Write those words in columns by how the sound is spelled. (ex: y words together, ie words together, i_e words together)

Read a book of your choice. Find all the words that have a long-o sound. Write those words in columns by how the sound is spelled. (ex: oe words together, ow words together, o_e words together)

Make a chart of all the ways you can spell a long-o sound. Write the words you hear today on your chart under the right heading.

Make a chart of all the ways you can spell a long-u sound. Write the words you hear today on your chart under the right heading.

Make a chart of all the ways you can spell a long-i sound. Write the words you hear today on your chart under the right heading.

Make a chart of all the ways you can spell a long-a sound. Write the words you hear today on your chart under the right heading.

Make a chart of all the ways you can spell a long-e sound. Write the words you hear today on your chart under the right heading.

 


 Third Grade

Write down every adjective you use for one whole day.

Write down all the helping verbs you hear for one full day.

Write down five sentences you hear and name all the parts of speech you can.

Write down all the Proper Nouns you use during one afternoon.

Listen to how many common nouns your family uses during one meal. Count them!

Read a favorite book and write down all the action verbs you see.

For ten minutes, brainstorm all the “ly” adjectives you can think of.

Find ten items in your house and write down whether they are common nouns or proper nouns, then write the opposite. (ex: Kleenex is a proper noun, tissues are a common noun. Which do you have?)

Read a favorite book and write down all the pronouns you see.

Count how many pronouns there are in an episode of your favorite tv show.

Write a story that includes 3 proper nouns, 5 common nouns, 6 adjectives, 2 pronouns, 7 action verbs, 3 helping verbs, and 5 linking verbs. Underline or circle each type with a different color.

Read a favorite book and write down all the linking verbs.

Help your family make lunch or dinner, and write down all the adjectives and adverbs that are used in the preparations. (ex: stir SLOWLY!)

Read three favorite books.

Describe the world you created in one of your online games. Use adjectives, verbs, and pronouns to make it interesting.


Fourth Grade
Fluency and Math :) 

Climb stairs: the first time count by 1s, the second time skip count by 2s, the third time skip count by 3s, etc. All the way up to 20s!

Re-read a favorite book out loud each day for a week. Write a few sentences about how your reading has changed over the week.

Use a deck of cards to practice your multiplication facts. Pull two random cards and multiply them together. Use the face cards to represent bigger numbers.

Write a short story, then read it to your family every day for a week.

Figure out how much of six individual items (bread, milk, cheese, toilet paper, coffee, etc) your family uses in one day or one week, then figure out how much you will need if school is out for 2 weeks.

Read two short books and compare them:

-problem

-solution

-characters

-setting

-main idea

Divide a deck of cards into equal groups. How many different groups can you create and how many are in each group?

Write these as division sentences.

Divide a deck of cards into equal groups. How many different groups can you create and how many are in each group?

Write these as multiplication sentences.

Open a bag of candy or cereal, or something with several pieces. Create three math sentences that can describe those pieces. (ex: 3 blue skittles + 5 red skittles + 12 yellow skittles = 20; OR

3 groups of 5 skittles each = 15 )

Figure out how much of seven individual items (bread, milk, cheese, toilet paper, coffee, etc) your family uses in one day or one week, then figure out how much you will need if school is out for 4 weeks.

Practice your multiplication facts through 12s.

Color a picture to represent each of your multiplication facts through 12s.

Listen to a story online or have someone read to you. Try to listen to the same story 3 times.

Re-read a favorite book.

Make a list of the best book(s) you read each week.

Phonics-Based Programs

Mindplay
mindplay.com

Read Naturally
readnaturally.com

Nessy (for 1 and 2nd graders)
nessy.com/us/

Lalilo (K,1 and 2)
lalilo.com

Lexia 
lexia.com

Freckle 
freckle.com