Current Lessons
Week of December 2nd through December 6th
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| Kindergarten | Students will listen to Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep by Teri Sloat, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. This book is a Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award Nominee. Students will stamp the M and N using KidPix. They will then stamp things that have the same beginning sound as each letter. For example: under the letter F they might stamp a flag. |
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| First, Second, and Third | Students will listen to Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep by Teri Sloat, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. This book is a Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award Nominee. Students will use the KidPix program to illustrate and write about a sweater that the sheep in the story might like to wear. |
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| Fourth | Students will listent to Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. This book is the story of Jack, a student who doesn't want to write poetry when he is requred to by his teacher. As he writes notes to his teacher as part of the assignment, he learns a lot about poetry, and about himself. Students will watch a PowerPoint presentation created by Mr. Spencer to introduce a unit on poetry that they will be completing. |
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| Fifth | Students will begin a unit on robotics using the Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System. | |||