Do you feel lucky?

Pre-K 

Songs
Lucky Leprechaun tune Jingle Bells
Leprechaun, Leprechaun,
Oh, where can you be?
Come a little closer now,
Don’t be afraid of me.

Leprechaun, Leprechaun,
You bring luck my way.
I’d really like to see you
On this St. Patrick’s Day!

St. Patrick’s Day Song Tune “Mary Had a Little Lamb”

I’m looking for a leprechaun,
Leprechaun, leprechaun.
I’m looking for a leprechaun.
Do you know where he’s gone?

He wears a suit that’s made of green,
Made of green, made of green.
He wears a suit that’s made of green
Do you know where he’s gone?

He lives by a rainbow and hides his gold,
Hides his gold, hides his gold.
He lives by a rainbow and hide his gold.
Do you know where he’s gone?

If you see a leprechaun,
Leprechaun, leprechaun.
If you see a leprechaun,
Please tell me where he’s gone!

From: http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/325.html 

K-1
My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza (home)

Do you feel lucky?  (Irish holiday) show on globe, What continent?

This project was done with a K-1 class just before St. Patrick's Day. The children's hands will decoupaged to a bigger piece that will also embellished with Moroccan inspired drawing for a gift for the classroom teacher for Education Week.   What continent?

Students will learn about the use of symbolism in cultural art as they learn and use design elements in creating a hand print. Khamsa - or Moroccan Good Luck Hand - means 'five' in arabic. The traditional Khamsas are often made out of precious metals.

What do we consider a "lucky number?"  Look at other examples of Moroccan designs. 

What you need:

• black construction paper
• white pencils for tracing hand print on paper
• pre-cut (kids can cut their own if time permits) magazine shapes. Fashion, textile and decorating magazines work best for this project. large circles, or squares - for palm of hand long 'wedge' shapes - for fingers various small shapes for added interest
• glitter/glitter glue, sequins, foil star stickers, colored paper reinforcements ( "O" shaped sticker-backed item found at office stores etc) leave some "O's" whole and cut some in half for variety.
• scissors
• glue sticks
• folder to keep each classes' together

What you do:

1. Present Lesson: Talk about other moroccan designs, show examples. Older children could research/report.
2. Trace hand on black paper using white pencil
3. Have children choose at large shape for palm, five 'finger' shaped and various small shapes.
4. Glue the five fingers first, then palm, and 'fill in' with small shapes
NOTE: It's o.k. - in fact better - if the collage extends a little beyond the traced hand. The excess will be trimmed off.
5. Embellish the hand design with stars, glitter, sequins etc.

These Khamsa Good Luck Hands really turn out beautifully! And would look great:

* strung together 
* used on the front of a note card or hand made book 
* decoupaged to heavy paper box  
* hung on a tree

I will have media student asst cut out and decoupage before May.

Adapted from: http://www.kinderart.com/sculpture/khamsa.shtml 

Grades 2-5 

Do you feel lucky? 3 reasons why I am lucky to be me... (on an index card with name)

Topics: baseball, good sportsmanship, success (Lou's definition, his parents')

Pre-read

1-2: Describe Lou's neighborhood.  (historical perspective)

 What are Lou and his friends doing?

What sport? What do you know about baseball?

7-8: Describe the uniforms.

12: Notice the newspaper headline. What is a slump?

 

While you read:

14: Find a fact and opinion. ( Lou to Mayo Clinic.  Lou wasn't selfish.)

15: What were the first symptoms that something was wrong?

17-8: why are there microphones on the field?

19-20: Compare this picture to the previous page.

23: What does Lou's uniform on a hanger represent?  #4 (four-leaf clover)

24-end: Do these pictures look happy or sad? Support with details!!!

Post:

NYC Mayor La Guardia told Lou, " You are the greatest prototype of good sportsmanship and citizenship."

• What did Lou do to help his team?
• How do you think other players felt about Lou?
• What else can a player do and say to be a good sport?
• Do you think Lou is a hero? Support your answer!

Lou Gehrig Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SKyfGK9brs
The transcript of the entire speech: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/gehrig.htm

 

New Year's with Big 6 and Super 3

Grades 3, 4/5

The first of the year is the perfect time to teach your students how to reflect upon the past year and prepare for a positive, fresh start to the new year. Writing New Years resolutions together is an educational group activity that will inspire your students to be their best while practicing writing skills at the same time.

• Ask for a show of hands of who has heard of New Years resolutions before. Furthermore, how many students have already practiced making (and trying to keep) resolutions?
• To make sure everyone is on the same page, introduce the concept of New Years resolutions and how it comes from the word "resolve". Discuss how adults often find them challenging to keep, so it's important to make your resolutions positive, concrete, and realistic. Tell the students that resolutions are like promises that you make to yourself.
• Model resolutions for your students by showing them a few examples of your own or from a list of top 10 resolutions. Discuss how you will monitor your success on keeping the resolutions. Workshop (with your students' input) how to come up with appropriate resolutions.
• Allow your students time to practice writing a set number of resolutions of their own (for school, home, other areas of life, etc.) You may want to offer younger students a template to use for this writing task. For example, When I am at ___________, I resolve to ___________ because ___________.
• Give the students an opportunity to share a few of their resolutions with the rest of the class. Model offering encouragement to each other.
• You can also have your students create accompanying illustrations for their resolutions, visualizing themselves accomplishing their goals. The illustrated resolutions will make a darling bulletin board display for the classroom, while providing visual reminders for the students to work toward their goals. Modified from: http://k6educators.about.com/od/januaryholidayslessons/qt/nyreslesson.htm

Introduce: Kidzworld http://www.kidzworld.com/article/26404-new-years-resolutions

• What are they?
• Why do we do it?
• HOW

Last Year

• How did my year begin?
• What did I expect to happen this year? Were my expectations met?
• What surprised me this year?
• What disappointed me this year?
• If I could do anything over, what would I choose?
• How was my academic performance? What are my strengths and weaknesses?
• How might I address these weaknesses?
• What have I learned this year? Academically? Personally?
• What resolutions did I make last year?
• If I did not keep my resolutions, why?
• Did my experiences this year match my expectations?
• What surprised me? Disappointed?
• If I could do anything over, what would I choose? What would I do differently?

Take the "Make the New Year AWESOME" Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQOcEDD5hR8

More Examples http://www.today.com/video/today/53958093#53958093

The New Year

• How will this year be different from last year?
• In what ways do I expect this year to be similar as last?
• What challenges do I expect to face this year?
• How might I best prepare for the challenges that I expect to face?
• What do I hope to improve in my life?
• What are my strengths?
• Considering my physical health, what are my strengths? Weaknesses?
• Considering my mental health, my state of mind, what are my strengths? Weaknesses?
• Considering my social network and social life, what are my strengths? What areas are in need of improvement?
• Of all the possibilities, what 2 or 3 areas do I wish to improve?
• What specifically will I improve for each? For each area, how will I mark change?

New year's resolutions, goals, and plans for change begin with a self evaluation. Take a moment to consider where you’ve been and where you would like to go. From : http://gradschool.about.com/od/survivinggraduateschool/a/newyeareval.htm

Year 2, Post #4

Pre-K:  Chick-a-Chick-a-Boom-Boom

 

Introduce:  

• Cut out letters that will be handed out to the class.  Ask them to hand the letter to you. Then, see if the class knows the name of the letter. Once all of the letters are pulled from the bag, have students help count how many letters there are altogether.
• Stress that there are 26 letters in the alphabet.
• Ask students what else they know about letters. Do they recognize the letters in their own name. (They may say that letters are in their names, make up words, that they know their ABC's, etc!) Encourage students to sing the very familiar 'ABC Song' with you.
• Let the students hang their letter in the tree with tape.

With the Story:

• Introduce the title, author and illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom; Ask students to look closely at the cover.  Point to a few letters and see if they can recognize.
• What might this book be about? Have they seen a tree like this before? What is growing in the tree?;  Explain to students that in this story, the very first letter of the alphabet challenges the other letters to join her in climbing this tree; Read aloud for enjoyment and to see what happens to the letters (and the tree)!
• You may want to ask some questions as the story is being read the first time, such as the following.

Do you think all of the letters will be able to fit up in the top of the tree? Why or why not? What might happen as more letters climb the tree? Why do you think the letters all fell out of the tree? What happened? Have you ever fallen down? What happened when you fell? What happened to the letters when they fell down?

Story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-V4zzXzpT8
Song: http://www.schooltube.com/video/2490bb8cd9848c3af3ec/

Read the story. Pass out letters to hang in the tree as students listen to the song.

 Resource Ideas: http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/chicka_chicka_boom_boom.html

For JC: ABC pages http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/chicka/chickacoloring.htm

K:

1-2:


3, 4/5:

Second Day of Rotation: Research

Kindergarten:

Campbell (Spiders)

Spooky Spider Song/Video  http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/weird-wacky-kids/parry-gripp-kids/spooky-spider-kids/   with graphic organizer activity

 

Mocomag Spider Facts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-tZ7-TzSM  book video

 

Children's Book of Spiders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhntN-G3mA0 book video

 

Diary of a Spider on Tumblebooks

Hinkle (Animals)

Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo by ES Redmond (Tumblebooks) and A Home for Pearl Squirrel by Amy Crane Johnson

 

Draw a picture of your animal. Listen to the story. Draw it a second time.

or Penguin Video, The Penguin Story (Tumblebook)

 

 

1st Grade:

Spiders

 

2nd Grade:

Spiders

 

3rd Grade:

Phases of the Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQRNzepe4wI

Charting the Phases using Big 6

 

4th Grade:

 

Intro:

Human Body 101  http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/science/health-human-body-sci/human-body/human-body-sci/

Body Systems http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yjLJfz6saU

For chart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrS7SCdd7-U

 

Finish with paper dolls as HW

 

5th Grade:

American Rev

Read 2 Historical Fictions w/CC Chart for textual evidence

 

Year 2, Post #3

K-3 Read Anything Good Lately? by Susan Allen (Tumblebooks)

3rd: Begin the genre discussion.

2nd: Use 3 lists of words. Seperate into 3 groups and see who can alphabetize list first.

1st: http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/pawpark2/pawpark2.html

K: Give them a stack of ABCs and have them put them in order on the floor...3 groups.



Gr 4-5: Review Good Fit Books conversation, review Destiny, review library procedures.

3 groups, 3 sets of books to order...

Pre-K: Colors?

Year 2, Post #2

Pre-K:
Practiced each class's library song for the first time.

We read Preschool to the Rescue by Judy Sierra except I called it Pre-K and we discussed being a hero is not a matter of size.

Kinders/2nd Grade:

Discuss ABC order.  Read a book.

 (K-2) With a discussion about Everybody-Read books being in ABC order (call numbers), read Alpha Betti by Carlene Morton. While I take 5 at a time to show them how to use shelf markers, the big group will use the shelving game on the smartboard.

Barber-2nd Will work with http://monarchlibrary.wikispaces.com/OrderInTheLibrary.
OR http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/alphabetical-order-1.html
OR http://www.spellingcity.com/alphabetical-order-practice.html?listId=3828572


Medium: http://www.primarygames.com/ABC%20Zoo/question_2.htm
http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=160 car crash

Other Kinders will use other ABC learning centers. A few are:

• Smartboard http://www.learningplanet.com/act/abcorder.asp
• Smartboard http://www.abcya.com/alphabet.htm
• Smartboard http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/pawpark2/pawpark2.html bears
• Clothespin sort
• Magnets

3rd-5th: Good fit books...and using Destiny. COWS available???

Year 2, Post #1

Kinders and 1st Grade:

 

I read The Wonderful Book by Leonid Gore.  We discussed cover and with each animal we talked about what NOT to do with your library books. Then I used the Kinder Orientation Powerpoint with simple rules and went over the 3 steps to checking out.

2nd-5th:
I went over Summer Reading results. Then we reviewed the Library Orientation Powerpoint before checking out. Emphasis on using shelf markers correctly.

Pre-K:
I read The Wonderful Book to these 2 groups. Then we sang "Going on a Bear Hunt" together. Song Link
Also, great storybook version on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKGCFxJLqbQ