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= Earth Day Writing activity   = = posted by Theresa Zak  = = Write a Going Green Plan = Here’s an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child’s pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance. It’s time to go green! **What You Need:** **What to Do:** Simple ways to go green:
 * recycled copy paper
 * front and back panels of a cereal box
 * stapler
 * pen or pencil
 * 1) Discuss ways that your family can “go green.” How can your household be friendly to the earth? (See the list below for ideas.)
 * 2) Your child can make a list of these ideas on the recycled copy paper. Keep the list realistic and doable for your family. Encourage your child to record details for each item in the plan. If you’re collecting junk mail envelopes, for example, where will they be kept? When and where will trees be planted? How will each family member contribute to the plan?
 * 3) Have your child create a book for the Going Green plan. The cereal box panels are the covers and the copy paper is for the pages in the middle of the book. Staple these together.
 * 4) The final page of the Going Green plan should be a contract for family members to sign. Have your child create a sentence at the top of the page that states that all family members agree to the plan. Then each person signs his or her name at the bottom of the page.
 * Save return envelopes from junk mail. Use these to hold important items to school, such as lunch money, notes for the teacher, etc.
 * Start a compost pail or a compost pile for kitchen scraps. Don’t forget to add eggshells, coffee grinds, and fruit and veggie scraps.
 * Recycle newspapers, if you don’t already. You can also shred these up and add them to your compost pile.
 * Use both sides of paper for coloring pictures.
 * Swap magazines with neighbors, rather than subscribing to multiple magazines.
 * Plant trees in your yard and neighborhood.
 * Go on a monthly or weekly litter walk. Bring a garbage bag with you to clean up the street.
 * Don’t let the water run while you’re brushing your teeth.
 * Keep a bucket handy in the bathroom. When you are running shower or bath water and waiting for it to get hot, put the bucket under the tap. Use this to water plants or fill pet water dishes.
 * Grow a vegetable garden. Use natural pest controls, such as companion planting.
 * Choose one night a week to turn off all the lights in the house (and the TV, too!) and have a “lights out!” hour. During this hour, plan fun activities to do as a family, such as telling stories or sharing popcorn.

This is a nice web site that can be used with the SMART Board. Found and entered by Loretta McCoy

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Thanks for visiting my Sequencing Fun page. To play the games below, type in numbers to put the events in the correct order. Before and/or after each game, have students explain how to do the activity in th eir own words.

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Fiction/ Non-fiction Writing

Linda Solberg First Grade Sometimes the line between fact and fiction can be unclear, especially with the wide use of animal characters in works of fiction. Comparing nonfiction and fiction texts containing similar subject matter can help students develop critical thinking skills as they learn to bring their own prior knowledge as well as additional factual information to works that they themselves create. =__ Using “ Pair It Books” __= After reading the book //Daniel’s Dinosaurs//** By Mary Carmine and learning about the true story of** //Daniel’s Dinosaurs// **By Charles Helm, the students discuss the difference between fiction and nonfiction writing. From the classroom text set on the subject, the students listen to matching fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore resources to identify factual information about dinosaurs. To complete their exploration, students predict, question, confirm, and record information about one selected dinosaur. (This lesson plan focuses on dinosaurs, but the project can easily be adapted to any animal of interest.)**

=__ Creating “Pair It Books” __= Writing assignment 1 Fiction Book: The students begin creating their own “Pair it Books” by writing, editing and revising their own fictional dinosaur story. Using Pixie Image Tools the students will type illustrate and publish their original works.

Writing assignment 2 Nonfiction Book: The Students create a class “Dinosaur Fun Fact Book” with each student authoring and illustrating a page based on the research they have done on their select dinosaur. Upon completion these book will be displayed in class and enjoyed by all during our authors share.

WIKI entry by Maria Flevotomas and Missy McMillan OVIPAROUS ANIMALS UNIT This is a fun unit to introduce in the Spring. The children are excited to learn all they can about oviparous creatures and even teach their family about anything oviparous! The unit is introduced with a basket filled with plastic eggs, each filled with little plastic creatures that hatch from eggs. (snake, fish, bird, octopus, duck, caterpillar, spider, etc.) What do these creatures have in common?

Read CHICKENS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES by Ruth Heller. Brainstorm animals that hatch from eggs and those that don’t and chart them.

There are great books in our library that reinforce this unit of study. // Bently and Egg, An Extraordinary Egg, Eggs, First the Egg //, etc. and all the different life cycle books on turtles, frogs, birds, reptiles, insects, spiders,etc **

Writing activities: A is oviparous.

A is not oviparous.

Illustrate and make a class book. **

Math Number small plastic eggs and have students put in numerical order. Match number on plastic egg with that many jelly beans. **

Pocket Charts
 * Cut out pictures of oviparous animals and mammals. Children sort and place in correct column **

Literacy ** Write upper case letter on one half of plastic egg and lower case letter on the other half. Children match the halves.

Write rhyming words on half of plastic egg and have children match the halves.

Lots of art activities

From this unit, we go on to the life cycles of frogs (and bring in tadpoles so that the children can observe the life cycle, Butterflies (buy the larve and observe the metamorphosis) and then as a culminating activity, visit the Butterfly Farm in Via Grande. It is a great field trip! Here are some more fun Buggy activities to help you spring into Spring! From Mrs. Gillett** Bug Theme - Predictable Chart [|Pictures for the Predictable Chart] [|All Kinds of Insects Reader]** Insect Sorting Color Pictures [|Black and White Pictures] ** Insect Photographs  [|Ant Photograph] [|Butterfly Photograph] [|Mosquito Photograph] [|Bee Photograph] [|Grasshopper Photograph] [|Dragonfly Photograph] [|Ladybug Photograph] [|Smaller Photographs] Connection to Literature Preschool and Kindergarten Activity
 * Using this predictable chart for shared reading is a good introduction to the Bugs theme unit. The repetitive text could introduce insect names. The text could read: A bee is an insect. A butterfly is an insect, An ant is an insect, A dragonfly is an insect, A ladybug is an insect, A grasshopper is an insect. A mosquito is an insect. The accompanying pictures and emergent reader is found in the links below:
 * [|Color Insect Sorting Pictures]
 * Below you will find photographs of the insects spoken about in the predictable chart. These are great for discussion purposes. You can also find smaller photographs. These can be placed in a center for the children to look at and match the words to the ones on the photograph.

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Emergent Reader Retelling The 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle is an all time favorite book to be used in conjunction with the Bug theme. Not only does it introduce the days of the week, numbers but also the life cycle of a butterfly. Children love this book! In the the links below you will find an emergent reader, enlarged pictures for making a big book, predictable chart pictures used for retelling the story and modeling the reading process. [|Hungry Caterpillar Retelling Predictable Chart Pictures] [|Hungry Caterpillar Reader] [|Enlarged Pictures for the Reader] More Printable Emergent Readers In the Bug theme there is a total of 8 printable emergent readers, you will find more in the links below: **Butterfly Cycle Emergent Reader Shape Book

It can be used as a book for the children to read on their own, after they have been introduced to the life cycle of the butterfly. It introduces the children to the stages of the butterfly, as well as, to the use of ordinal numbers. The children are required to cut and paste the correct picture with each line of the story. First, I am an egg. Second, I am a caterpillar. Third, I am a pupa. At last, I am a butterfly.** More Printable Emergent Readers - Bonus Readers
 * It can be used as a book for the children to read on their own, after they have been introduced to the life cycle of the butterfly. It introduces the children to the stages of the butterfly, as well as, to the use of ordinal numbers. The children are required to cut and paste the correct picture with each line of the story.
 * [|Butterfly Cycle Shape Book]

Ants Rhyme Printable Emergent Reader [|Ants Rhyme Emergent Reader] ** ** Bugs, Bugs Printable Emergent Reader - //Bugs, Senses// Emergent Reader, //Counting Bugs Fun// Emergent Reader found in the link below:
 * [|Bugs on the Move Emergent Reader]
 * [|Bonus Readers (3)] **

[|Sort the Words to Match the Sentence] Suggested Center Ideas link you will find a ladybug template or butterfly template that can be used for a making a shape book. Younger children can cut and paste the insect pictures along with the matching word (visual discrimination). Older children can print their own sentence about an insect using what was written during shared writing time as a model. The children could also be provided with a template to complete their own sentence where they would be required to fill in a word (could be a sight word). Example: Insects have three body parts. The children would only be required to print the sight word have. Information on Shared Writing found in the link below: ** Printing Ideas and Printing Book - found in the links below: [|Printing Ideas] [|Printing Book] Math Games - Spinner Math Game Game Place a top in the middle of the number board. The number where the top lands is colored in on the accompanying chart. The child that has the chart colored first is the winner. Older children would be required to say the number they land on. Other Games This game above could be used for alphabet recognition. you will find ladybug templates used for playing math games.
 * The children cut and paste the words in the link below to match the sentences on the connect the dots pictures.
 * [|Shared Writing]

you will find ladybug templates used for playing math games.

Preschool Match the ladybugs with the same amount of spots. Kindergarten Number Activities 1. Select a number and children draw that many spots on the ladybug. 2. Teacher draws the spots on the ladybug and the children print or select the number that represents it.

3. Print an addition sentence representing the ladybug shown. Example: 2 + 3 = 5 Connect the Dots Numbers Bug Picture ** **
 * [|Connect the Number Dots Butterfly]

Music Integration

[|Insects Are Very Much the Same Song] **Physical Education Games for the Bugs Theme Unit Caterpillar (co-operation game) Butterfly Race Equipment - feather representing butterflies **
 * [|Bug Facts Song]
 * Divide groups into 5-7 children.
 * Children lineup behind each other.
 * Players sit and wrap their legs around the person in front of them to form a caterpillar. Can the caterpillars move forward, backwards and sideways? Can the caterpillars move to a designated spot?
 * If the caterpillar disconnects, it must reconnect before moving again.
 * divide children into small teams (4 or 5 per team)
 * children try to blow the feather (butterfly) to a designated spot
 * the team that is able to get it to the designated spot without droping it is the winner
 * if the feather falls on the floor, the team must start over from the beginning