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Philanthropy in Michigan???Civil War Lesson 2: Forming Opinions
Students act out a section of the book Gentle Annie that is depicted in Chapter 4. They discuss the character position taken by each of the characters in the scene. They write a persuasive letter to one of the characters.
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START QUILTING
Young scholars use Start Quilting with Alex Anderson, 2nd Edition to make five simple wall hangings, each exploring different basic piecing techniques. A sampler quilt at the end of the book combines all the basic blocks from the...
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Knowing the Phone in an Emergency
Third graders brainstorm emergency situations. They watch a demonstration of finding emergency numbers in the phone book. They compile a list of specific items they should tell the 911 operator. They demonstrate how to talk to emergency...
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Record Memories of Earlier Times
Students identify ways in which the women's rights movement influenced a woman they know, and then document the important events in her life. Each student interviews an oldere woman. They compile their interviews into a class book.
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Depression Era Art
Students choose Depression era art to print out from the Internet. They write paragraphs about how the artists interpreted facts about the Depression in their art. The paragraphs and prints can become a student art critic book.
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Mrs. Wishy Washy
Students explore the book, Mrs. Wishy Washy. They listen to the story, participate in a picture walk, identify the patterns of repeated words, role-play the motions, and retell the story using props.
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Let's Paint!
Students read Jonah Winter's book, Frida, and Thomas Locker's, Miranda's Smile, and talk about the artists' styles. They practice their own painting styles.
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A Guided Tour
Students identify differences in information found on the internet and in print books. They practice navigating between different pages and using shortcuts. They evaluate a site and share their findings with the class.
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Trees-whiz
Students discover the importance of trees to the environment. After seeing trees in nature, they sketch various examples and collect all of them to create a book. In a journal, they develop questions they would want to ask a tree if it...
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Sketchbooks
Third graders review the importance of using a sketchbook in art. Using materials found in the classroom, they create their own sketchbook. They share their creation with the class and start sketching in their book.
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Unconditional Kindness
Students express their feelings about their neighbors and how to be kind to others. Teacher and students discuss the meaning of philanthropy and how they can be kind to others. After reading a particular trade book, students are assessed...
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Beginning Reading Design: A and I are Team Players
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the /ai/ correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ai/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students then...
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Ready, Set, Read!
Young scholars examine how to become more efficient readers by practicing repeated readings. They listen as the teacher models both non-fluent and fluent reading before working with a partner to read assigned sentences a number of times....
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Chugga, Chugga, Choo Chooooooo!
Pupils complete a variety of activities related to the /ch/ sound. As a class they read and recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letters ch. Students then listen to pairs of words and identify the word that contains the...
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Baby Sally is Upset Again!
Students, assessing how to read and write, join together grapheme's and the phonemes that make up words. They practice recognizing in oral and written form the vowel /a/. The book, "Matt and Rags," is introduced to the students in this...
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Journeys
Young scholars write a story using their journey to school as the setting. In groups, they discuss their experiences and browse through books to get ideas for their story. They practice using a thesaurus to find new verbs or adjectives...
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Sizzling Sausage
Students explore the sounds of the alphabet. They practice making the /s/ sound. Students repeat tongue twisters. They write words with the /s/ sound. Students read a book about sounds and their spellings.
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Four Dollars and Fifty Cents
Students use the book, Four Dollars and Fifty Cents, to discover ways that creditors can obtain payment from reluctant debtors
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Tools Make A Difference
Students compare and contrast older and newer types and designs of tools, and examine how the change in tools affected life along the river in the book, "A River Ran Wild." They classify the tools for cooking, hunting, farming, and...
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Happy the Fish
Students explore the ways in which people's actions affect fish. They discuss pollutants that are in the water. Students define the terms chemicals, cooling pond, and pollutant. They create a book about Happy the Fish.
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Graphs
Pupils listen to the book, TOPS AND BOTTOMS looking at different vegetables from the story that they have tried in class that week.
They then focus their attention on a graph called, "What is Your Favorite Vegetable?". They place a...
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Mars
First graders listen as the teacher reads a copy of the WEEKLY READER that talks about Mars and ask questions accordingly. They again listen as a section about Earth is read from the magazine. Now, the class orally compare and contrast...
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Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Bowls
Students listen to the teacher who explains the layering of the bowl; demonstrating marking and freehand cutting and fusing. They use satin stitch to practice on scraps. Teacher talks about finishing the edge. Students mimic.
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Particulate Matter: The Lorax
Students investigate how dirty air is outside. They read and discuss the book, The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss. They investigate using jars and lids to compare the dirt left each day as they remove the lids. They observe the lids and discuss if...