In this activity students identify the different relationships that can be found in a community and create a class Community ABC Book.
A word work activity to accompany the story Chrysanthemum.
Students will listen and match sounds ... either rhyming sounds, beginning sounds, ending sounds or vowel sounds.
While reading the story "Seven Fat Cats", students will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)
Students will use the teacher created exploration tub, charts and cards to understand the concept of "Then and Now."
Students will use letters to make several short words. The words being constructed will be in word families and discussion should occur over chunks and letter patterns. At the culmination of the activity, all letters will be used to make one word.
Students will create and share their own rock art. Part of this lesson is done as a shared reading experience.
This lesson takes a closer look at character, tapping into what a character thinks, says, feels, does, and tries, as well as his or her strengths and weaknesses. Students will use what they read to analyze the character in the story.
Students will put on a puppet show and retell fairy tales.
Students will create thought bubbles for either the brother or the sister from Patricia Polacco's story "My Rotten, Red-Headed, Older Brother".
After reading the story "The Little House", students will discuss changing patterns and then create a seasonal mandala.
This lesson will help expose students to other cultures and traditions.
After reading Carol A. Johnson's book titled "Family", students will create a classroom graph of their family members.
After reading Leo Lionni's story titled "Frederick", students will illustrate a scene from the story.
Using a variety of informational text, students will explore places in their neighborhood.
During the class' plant unit, students will observe a plant and write and illustrate what they have learned in their discovery journal.
Using the interactive writing procedures, students will write sentences and illustrate ways seeds travel.
Using the interactive writing procedure, students will write about vehicles that float.
Students retell a story to reinforce sequencing.
Students will explore literature about Africa and exhibit an interest in learning more about it. This unit will introduce them to the seven continents of the world.