Week 14

I have gotten behind... Week 14 should have been plans to Nov. 12-16th.


*Started a Reading 50 K Challenge for Dec, will run through Thanksgiving Break and will pick up bookmarks on Monday. (Next time send an Alert Now to remind kids to get bookmarks signed and bring in.)

Week 13

Grades 2-5  Check out and then silent reading time for 50K Challenge!

1st: No classes due to short week.

K:  Caught up on the Letter I

Pre-K: J is for Jokes

Video about the Letter "J" from http://daybydaysc.org/September/27

• jeans
• jumping
• joking
• jelly beans
• jingle

Read "The Bears We Know" from Tumblebooks  (junk, jump, joke)

Review letter and related words on smartboard.  Then explain "joke".  Share some of my favorites (sometimes with visual aides on the smartboard to help them get it):

• What did zero say to eight?     Nice belt.

• Knock Knock
  Whose there?
  Boo.
  Boo who?
  I didn’t mean to make you cry!

• Who's there?

  Lettuce

  Lettuce who?

  Lettuce in, it's freezing out here.

• Q: What do you call cheese that’s not yours?

  A: Nacho cheese!

• What do you get when a hen lays an egg on the roof?
  An egg roll!

• Why do cows wear bells?
  Because their horns don't work!

• What did one snowman say to the other?
  Do you smell carrots?

• How do you know it is raining cats and dogs?
  When you step in a poodle!

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  Where do bees go to the bathroom?
  The BP station!

 

Knock, Knock  with banana and orange...

 

Week 12

1st Grade: 
Giving Thanks by Chief Jake Swamp
Thanksgiving by Gail Gibbons

2nd Grade:
How Do Bats See in the Dark?  by Melvin and Gilda Berger
Pick enough questions for each student to have one. When they ask the question read the answer from the book?

3rd Grade:

Pre-K, Kinders:  I is for Ice Cream
Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxS8AimvbBI

Something Good by Robert Munsch  http://daybydaysc.org/September/23

See wiki for more.

Week 11

1st Grade:
House of Leaves by Kiyoshi Soya  and Nature Walk  by Douglas Florian (trail dedication)

2nd Grade: sound
Sounds All Around by Wendy Pfeffer 534 PFE
What information is repeated from what your teaher taught?  What is new?

3rd and 4th: Finding a Good Fit Book Strategies

5th Grade: ghost stories
Southern Ghosts by Nancy Roberts 398.2 ROB  Railroad Bill
Robin Hood?  List for specific characteristics of what it means to be southern?

Pre-K, Kinder: H is for House
Introduce with a video for H is for House: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5eWPZnD1s

The House that Jack Built by Janet Stevens  A great book to read with an individual kid, did not translate as well with a larger group.  too old-fashioned? outdated?

Which one of these pictures looks more like your house?
The Little House by Virginia Lee Buton E BUR or Building Homes by Graham Rickard  690 RIC
Who lives here?   The White House  by Leonard Everett Fisher 975.3 FIS
What kind of house does this "animal" live in?
Do Spiders Spin Webs? 595.4 BER
The Life Cycle of a Bee 595.79 BAI
Amazing Fish  597 LIN

End with smartboard activity matching animals to their houses.

Week 10

Book Fair: Open checkout for all, but no classes

Week 09

Two day week only checking in and out for all.

Week 08

K-5 Discuss first attempt at READ 50K

PreK :G is for Gorilla and Good Night
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman

Great to introduce:

• Gorilla Puzzle http://www.first-school.ws/puzzlesonline/alphabet/g_gorilla.htm 
• I am a Gorilla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QkwLkkgUY&feature=fvwrel 
•  http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/mountain-gorilla/?vgnextfmt=printable Great pics of REAL gorillas, Where would you expect to see REAL gorillas?
• Good Night, Gorilla on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVpGyBYelF8&feature=fvwp&NR=1 Read by a student 
• Monty Miller, Smart Gorilla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVmUYagUxc About a gorilla who knows the importance of reading, cute little music video