2014-03-17

PreK

• Read: What's up, what's down a book about air, land, and sea 500 SCH Lala Schaefer

• Circulate books

• Watch, Tumblebooks: Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee Chris Van Dusen http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/full_book.asp?ProductID=103

KDG

Popcorn List #15

• Books on spring

• Tumblebooks: Cinammon and the April Shower

• Facts from a fiction book

Discuss Opinion of book - good / bad WHY?

1st

• Bark, George

• Pull up images of author Jules Feiffer (pictures/authors/feiffer_jules1.jpg)

• Show some other book titles for children.

• Read through Bark, George

2nd

Key words in nonfiction text

• Table of content

• Chapter titles and headings

• Index

• Glossary

• Guide Words

Materials Needed: LCD Projector. Access to FollettShelf

3rd

• Review of the Dewey Decimal Ranges 500-900

• Continuing from last week's video, The Dewey Dilemma.

• Show PPT from documents/orientation/dewey500-900.ppt Discuss each of the hundreds section and use the tips, cues, and motions as reminders.

• Call book titles and get students to respond.

4th

• Discussion: Simple Machines.

• Exercise: Review/demonstrate the different varieties of simple machines. Then, allow students to visit a website to find the different simpla machines located in a given room of a home.* determine

* timing - if allowed, send students to

• Exercise: using http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/frame_loader.htm, have the kids pick a place in a house to find all the simple machines.

Materials Needed:

• Access to simple machines file located in teh 4th grade folder.

• Access on all media center computers to above website.

5th

1. Guest Author, Holly Moulder

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