Primary Division No, David! , David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School by David Shannon
Junior Division Water, Weed, and Wait by Edith Hope Fine -The students will read Water, Weed, and Wait and will learn what the steps are to create a school garden. Students will discuss as a class why gardens are important and why people have them. - After students have been inspired, students will plan to create their very own garden at their school. Students need to get this plan started as they research, plan, gather resources, and get approved by the principal. - After the garden is completed, students will host an “garden opening party” with foods available that have been grown in the garden. Cross curricular connections - Math: Students can research costs of materials, as well as the measurements of the size of the garden. Growth of plants can also be recorded and measured throughout their observations. - Media Literacy: Students will create posters and announcements to advertise the garden. Advertising will gather master gardeners, volunteers and locals who can help make the garden better. - Art: Students can draw pictures in their journals to connect with their writing observations. Students can also create stepping stones and name cards/signs within the garden. - Science: students will research certain plants and see what plants need what attention (amount of sun, shade, water etc.,). As the plants grow, students will observe and take notes on the similarities and differences among the plants. Students can also discuss and learn how the weather is affecting the garden (positive or negative effects). - Writing: Students will include their observations in a journal where they are able to explain what they see changing and happening each day. - Health: students can discuss how eating healthy foods is important. Students can taste test their vegetables planted after they have grown. - Social studies: students are participating and talking about community. They also will discuss how they must clean up the school yard to allow room for the garden (eg. pick up litter). Relevance Differentiation Since there are so many steps in creating a school garden, students have many different jobs and opportunities to participate in. (advertising, planting, picking grown vegetables) Other activities related to WRITING and READING Pass the ball: Reading/PhysEd Sight word practice. Write words your child is learning on a beach ball. Toss it back and forth and each time that a person catches it, they read the word their fingers touch. Musical Chairs-Reading Reading/Music Have each student bring a book. The first time we did this I asked each student to bring in their favorite chapter book. We then sat in a chair (myself included), randomly opened our own book to any part we wanted, and read for a designated about of time – typically 5-7 minutes. At that point, I simply said “switch”, we moved to the next book (going clockwise), randomly chose a page to start on, and continued reading.
Who Am I?: Students will create a riddle based on something they are learning in class (eg. animals in science, shapes in math, important people in social studies etc.,). Students will read the riddle to figure out the answer Question Cube: students will roll the question cube and answer the question focusing on the book/novel. Eg. Did you like the ending, why or why not? Dot, Dot, Everywhere a Dot Reading/Math Make a list of all the dots you can see. Go on a dot scavenger hunt with a digital camera. Create a photo montage of your dot collection. What Dot? There it is! Reading/Art Make a dot by NOT painting a dot. Try painting around your imagined dot, leaving the center blank. Actual size- Steve Jenkins Reading/Math/Science Students can find out the size of animals around the world. Students can measure each animal.
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