Week 07

1st: Survival What is symbiosis?

Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdon by Jose Aruego


2nd Grade: Life Cycle (Worms)

Looking at Life Cycles: How do Plants and Animals Change? by Angela Royston

3-5th Grade: Review last week's Media/Constitution Scavenger Hunt and discuss process...one more time.

Pre-K/K:  F is for Frog
Frog cutout with Ff inside its mouth to introduce. Then 2 smartboard pages: shapes, little to big.

I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric. A. Kimmel

Other good stuff: http://www.kidsparkz.com/frogs.html

 Use finger play or let children act out the "Five Little Speckled Frogs" rhyme. Have five children sit on a strip of tape on the floor. Let one "frog" jump into the pool until the end of the poem.

Five Little Speckled Frogs
Five little speckled frogs, (Hold five fingers "frog" on top of your
other arm "log.")
Sitting on a hollow log,
Eating the most delicious bugs. Yum! Yum!

One jumped into the pool, (jump a finger off the log into the pool)
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are how many frogs? FOUR! (Hold up four fingers)

Four little speckled frogs,
Sitting on a hollow log,
Eating the most delicious bugs. Yum! Yum!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are how many frogs? THREE!

Three little speckled frogs,
Sitting on a hollow log,
Eating the most delicious bugs. Yum! Yum!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are how many frogs? TWO!

Two little speckled frogs,
Sitting on a hollow log,
Eating the most delicious bugs. Yum! Yum!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are how many frogs? ONE!

One little speckled frog,
Sitting on a hollow log,
Eating the most delicious bugs. Yum! Yum!
It jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are how many frogs? NONE!

HOPPING CHALLENGE
This can be played in a circle, a line, or as a "Froggie Says____" game. Give children a variety of "hopping" commands such as:

• Hop in one place.
• Hop and turn in a circle at the same time.    
• Hop on left/right foot.
• Hop backwards, sideways; make a square or circle.
• Hop over a line.
• Hop with a partner.
• Hop quietly to line up.

Week 06

1st: Survival
How are living things connected? What happens if one of the pieces is missing?
Video Clip for Intro: http://activities.macmillanmh.com/reading/treasures/stories/olteachres/2204091.html Click slideshow.

Animal Adaptations for Survival by Elizabeth Rose
Animals at Night by Sharon Peters


2nd Grade: Life Cycle (Worms)
Worm Facts: http://www.worm-farming.com/worm-facts.html
An Earthworm's Life by John Himmelman
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/kids/index.html

Life Cycle: http://www.worm-farming.com/worm-life-cycle.html (after reading)

3-5th Grade: Media/Constitution Scavenger Hunt

Pre-K/K:  E is for Exercise
Introducing E http://www.sesamestreet.org/play#media/video_2884592e-154d-11dd-8ea8-a3d2ac25b65b

Oscar singing "Stretch, Wiggle, HEY!" to begin http://www.sesamestreet.org/playlists#media/playlist_d045fc7e-27c1-4cee-8b92-b17aceb850af

Stretch by Doreen Cronin http://daybydaysc.org/September/7

Exercise with Grover http://www.sesamestreet.org/playlists#media/playlist_d045fc7e-27c1-4cee-8b92-b17aceb850af
"Do you like to Exercise?" http://www.sesamestreet.org/playlists#media/playlist_d045fc7e-27c1-4cee-8b92-b17aceb850af

Hokey Pokey
This is traditional but helps your preschoolers learn about their body while learning to stay fit! You can change this up to focus on discussions you've had in class. For example, instead of "you put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put your right foot in and shake it all about" say "you could put your right foot in and lift it up and down!"

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Body parts and preschool fitness all in one! After singing this once, try singing it very, very slow and then very very fast! Each year, our children LOVE to do this "super, duper, fast". We tell them that when we do it this fast, it is SO fast we can't even say the words so we replace all the words with "Blah, blah blah blah blah blah" while we do it "super duper fast"!


Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes with Elmo http://www.sesamestreet.org/games#media/game_218b7bc6-486c-11dd-bf7b-df62be721a24

Week 05

1st: Survival
Can any animal adapt to any environment? What are some tools that might be used to adapt?

TumbleBooks Video on Pigeons
Three Little Pigs by James Marshall (398.3 H)
Animal Centre Games (Mole Word Game) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/menu.shtml

2nd: Life Cycle
What is a cycle?
Life Cycle (frog, butterfly, parrot) "game" http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/scienceforkids/life_cycle/games.htm Don't forget to play the video! (metamorphosis= change forms)
Guess What is Growing Inside This Egg? by Mia Posada
Followed up by showing one more (frog or bird) cycle and discussing.
Review game http://funschool.kaboose.com/formula-fusion/games/game_fun_science.html

3-5: Good Deeds Day (9/11)  Discuss power of words and actions to do good. Show videoes from "I Will" Campaign and "Show Your Strength" Campaign on Edmodo page

Pre-K: D for Dinosaur, Dig, Drum
I had ABC dinosaur footprints leading them to the library. (It was also "green" day in pre-k!)
As they come in excited about what they saw on the floor, share:

STOMP, STOMP, STOMP AROUND Tune: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
 Stomp, stomp, stomp around
On your great big feet.

Swish your tail
Then turn around,
Now go take your seat!

• Once they have settled, show Smartboard pics
• (next year have yarn cut that shows the size of each to compare)

•  T-Rex by Vivian French

Dig for Dinosaurs http://www.sesamestreet.org/play#media/game_a84724b6-9ddc-4602-b6d2-656e236c406f  game (Only K-1, too hard for pre-k)

• Dinosaur Song

Youngsters participate by sing and acting out the motions to this dinosaur song by Kay who says, "My older three's loved it".
  I'm a Big, Old Dinosaur  (Tune:  I'm a little Tea Pot)    
I'm a big, old Dinosaur  (Make a mean face, the kids make the cutest mean faces)
 Big and Tall                   (Gesture hands big and tall )
 Here is my tail, here is my claw. (Gesture hands behind your back for tail and make claw hands)
 When I get all hungry  (rub your tummy)
 I just growl                   (have the kids exaggerate the grrroooowwwlll)
Look out kids I'm on the prowl. (Here I tickle each one of the tummy and they all giggle)

Did this with students seated.

• Dinosaur Fingerplay

During this early childhood fingerplay children will learn some key facts about dinosaurs. (Directly connected to smartboard pics)

The Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs lived long ago, (gesture palm up wave over your shoulder)
Some were tall (gesture high).
Some were low (gesture low).
Some liked water (gesture swimming).
Some liked land and were slow (gesture walking by alternating palms on your knees).

Pteranadons had leathery wings (gesture flying).
Brontausaurs, long necks (gesture to neck).
But the meanest dinosaur of all (gesture mean face).
Was Tyranosaurus Rex (gesture heavy stomping by alternating palms on your knees).

Comments: Ham it up! I did this one with them in a semicircle around the carpet.
Both adapted from: http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/dinosaur.htm

For 1st grade or older:
Kidsdinos: http://www.kidsdinos.com/ map, pics and video
More games for older http://www.kidsdinos.com/dinosaur-games/index.php wow!

Week 04

K-5 Due to short week after Labor Day weekend, did not do a lesson so I might double up to get everyone in to exchange books.

Pre-K

Lesson for Letter C

1. Started reminding them about A and B. What next? (From Smartboard) C!

2. As we read, Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! from Tumblebook listen for the bug that starts with a "C" for clues about what we will talk about today.  (caterpillar)
3. Look at comparison on the smartboard of an ant and caterpillar. (Tell me 2 differences, 2 similarities)
4. Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Before I read I passed out cut-outs of each food the caterpillar eats (one to each student), gave teacher tape. As I read, students were to listen for their food, go to the teacher for tape, and hang up their item on the rail.
5. To help them summarize the story, after I read, I lined students up as a caterpillar as I asked them questions about the details. Our caterpillar walked past the food we hang up to take a bite. We ended our follow-the-leader style caterpillar in the shape of a "C"