Library+Plans+1st+Grade

Last year some of the more colaborative units were
 * September **

School Yesterday and Today
--- this was the one where we made butter, did a reading lesson from McGuffy’s reader, wrote with chalk on construction paper to mimic how they practiced writing with slates, wrote with quill Pens that Ms. McIntyre made. Children wrote questions about what school was like 100 years ago (see attached powerpoint with real pictures from schools back then) and Minnie Strohman school teacher in 1912 visited after a long and exhausting journey from North Dakota by train and buggy. [|School Long Ago.ppt] [|McGuffeysReader-pdf.pdf] I love this idea!! Vicky

Spiders
—and things that go bump in the night….This involved making a book ( a challenging job for new 1st graders --- they took notes and wrote the sentences in their books which were printed out and looked like spiders when complete. We might want to simply or involve Art in this – They seemed to like the webpage with the pictures of the gross spiders http://westmeade.net/Library/Spiders.htm http://westmeade.net/Library/Spiders1stGrade.html Here are the Note taking http://www.westmeade.net/Library/Spider_Notes.doc & Rport Form pages http://www.westmeade.net/Library/Spider%20Report%20Form.htm http://www.westmeade.net/Library/Spider%20Unit%20Evaluation%20Test.htm I think we should use this with the clickers.... http://www.westmeade.net/Library/Spider%20Diagram.htm -- kids had to draw the spider Here is the drawing to label http://www.westmeade.net/Library/spiderLabel1_edited-2.jpg Here is the kidspiration super grouper -- where kids drag bugs and spiders into the right container http://www.westmeade.net/Library/SpiderSuperGroupter.kid

Scary Stories Day at Halloween time.
We might focus on technology? Using fun
 * November **

Pilgrims
This could include stories also surrounding pilgrim/Jamestown themes--- http://www.westmeade.net/Library/thanksgiving.htm -- especially the one http://plimoth.org/kids/homeworkHelp/ this is the technology stuff http://activities.macmillanmh.com/reading/treasures/stories/teachcls.html Just stories and of course all the stuff for winter break --- and the cookies for Christmas and the Lattkes for Hanukkah
 * December **

Maps, globes & continents
I did a country each week from one of the continents -- with a story from that country (representative of a continent) – then shared a factual book from that country --- ex. Africa- Story: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain - use this also to reflect on weather and its effect on our earth! Non-Fiction book One Big Family -- the beautiful one about an African family welcoming a new baby Continued to expand the idea of finding facts --- and then constructing meaning from them. **Space & Planets http://www.westmeade.net/Library/Space.htm** This is a slide show which has photos of earth taken from space -- it is beautiful and illustrates sun set and lights coming on http://www.westmeade.net/Library/Ourplanetearth 070207.pps

1st 9 weeks: Sci: kit - solids and liquids S.S: Rules and laws, citizenship -- symbols of U.S. S.S: Folktales/myths/legends, maps and globes 2nd 9 weeks: Sci: kit -- Weather-- clouds condensation and water cycle --- MAGIC SCHOOL BUS VIDEO & BIG BOOK ON WATER WORKS- Peg S.S: symbols, holidays, goods and services 3rd 9 weeks: Coimparing and measuring Sci: kit and Earth's resources S.S: landforms, influential people, maps and globes, Tennessee 4th 9 weeks: Sci: kit and space & organisms