Curriculum > Elementary > Kindergarten > Social Studies
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Introduction Preview the Unit: A Story Well Told. Students will know that it is
important to learn about the world.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to recognize that people need rules to get along.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn that it is important to learn about our world.
Main Activity:
Students will learn that it is important to learn about the world. Students will expand their
understanding, moving outward to learn about other people starting with all the different countries in our
own classroom. Teacher will chart all the different countries they are from and we will find them on the
map and discuss.
Evaluation:
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will determine relative locations of different objects such
as the terms near and far, left and right, up and down, behind and in front.
Main Activity:
Students will sit in a large circle. Teacher will discuss left and right and show them how
to find it on their own hand. The left hand has the proper L. Students will review and then play a game
of Hokey Pokey singing the song and modeling the motions.
Evaluation:
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will continue to work on Vocabulary words: near/far,
left/right, up/down, behind/ in front.
Main Activity:
Students will use provided objects in a bag and pick one at a time and model the
vocabulary terms. For example one item can be a toy elephant and it can be located near the chair and
then another child will put it far away from the chair. This will continue till each child has several turns.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to use vocabulary words in context.
Main Activity:
Students will read the book page 2. Teacher will read aloud and ask students questions
about the pictures. Students will tell what pictures show and identify details that they recognize.
Students will have a follow up homework and practice activity on page 1 to complete and teach to their
parents at home.
Evaluation:
Teacher will monitor and observe
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will review and practice using learned vocabulary for the
week.
Main Activity:
Students will work in a small group and sit around a table. Students will each have a
block and two small toys. The teacher will give instructions that include position words such as put your
car behind your block.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
Objects to sort and count, shapes, zoo-phonics cards, letter stamps, play-do, map globe, white boards, markers, crayons, paper
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.3.1.1.1 Describe spatial information depicted in simple drawings and pictures.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Lesson 1, Follow the Rules. Students will know and be able to realize the reason we have rules.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will help make and be able to list the classroom school rules.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make posters that show how good they are good
citizens at home, at school, and in the community.
Main Activity:
Teacher will read aloud a book on school rules. Kids will brainstorm ideas on how to be a
good citizen in the classroom. Teacher will chart ideas and students will draw pictures on sticky notes
to show which rule they appreciated the most.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to understand the consequences of breaking
rules.
Main Activity:
Students will sit in a circle. Teacher will read all of the charted ideas for ways to be a
good citizen. Students will model this behavior and act out all the things listed. Teacher will then model
wrong ways to act (for example) the teacher will tell the students to all scream out the answer and
pretend they don’t know the rules. The teacher will then ask a question and all the kids will yell answer. Teacher will discuss why this does not work in a classroom and what would happen if everybody just
screamed out any answer all the time. Teacher will continue to use other examples to demonstrate that
without rules a classroom would not be manageable and students would not learn as much.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know the benefits of cooperating, taking turns, and sharing during the whole group lesson.
Main Activity:
Students will read morning message which will ask why it is important to follow rules in
school. Students will discuss and teacher will jot down answers. As a group the teacher will have all
the children answer various ways that are the right way to act in class. Teacher will create the start of a
anchor chart and have students illustrate each rule with a picture. Students will read the rules together
with the teacher and discuss all the ways we need to act in order to be a sharing caring classroom.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to define the word respect.
Main Activity:
This week we will spend much time discussing the rules of the classroom and how we
need to share and care and be nice to each other. Students will learn the term respect and be able to
discuss how we can respect each other. Students will brainstorm ideas and teacher will write them
down. Teacher will read a read aloud dealing with respecting
Evaluation:
Students will act out how to show respect.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know the following vocabulary terms at the end of the
week: School, rules. Class, respect, and cooperate.
Main Activity:
Students will look at a table filled with books discussing class rules and respect and
cooperation. Students will draw pictures for each of the words. We will make it into a class book and
will add it to our library.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
Objects to sort and count, shapes, zoo-phonics cards, letter stamps, play-do, map globe, white boards, markers, crayons, paper, farm animal toys, rubber duck, apples, pocket chart, magnetic letters
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 1 Lesson 2, Safety Signs. Students will know why we have safety signs and
symbols.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will recognize consequences of disobeying safety signs and symbols.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know why we have safety signs and symbols.
Main Activity:
Teacher will tell students about safety signs and why they are important. Teacher will
explain that safety signs often have symbols on them such as pictures that stand for something else.
Students will brainstorm the way they come to school in the morning. Teacher will help them recall any
signs they saw along the way. Teacher will then read a prepared poem on Traffic Signs. Students will
draw a traffic light and discuss what it means.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors. Homework and practice page 4.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand safety and community symbols.
Main Activity:
At the Social Studies center students will have a table of books on safety symbols and
signs to browse through and discuss amongst themselves. They will write post it notes with comments
in the books.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know and understand the vocabulary words
community and law.
Main Activity:
Students will read in their Social Studies books page 7. Tell the students that safety
signs and laws are for everyone to follow, drivers, people walking, people on bikes and in cars etc.
Teacher will be sure to emphasize that police officers help keep us all safe by enforcing us to follow the
rules.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand the importance of signs for safety.
Main Activity:
Teacher will set up an obstacle course during recess time. Students will make safety
signs to post around the coarse to remind students to be safe. Students will discuss what the signs
stand for and why as they go through the obstacle coarse.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand the importance of symbols and signs for
safety.
Main Activity:
Students will work in groups and make various signs to represent safety. Students will
either write about their sign or have a dictation taken. Students will make a safety symbol class book to
represent all the signs.
Evaluation:
All the kids read the book.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
Objects to use for patterning, shapes, zoo-phonics cards, letter stamps, play-do, map globe, white boards, markers, crayons, paper, pictures of signs, pocket chart, magnetic letters
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.2.2.1 Describe symbols, songs and traditions that identify our nation and state.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 1 Lesson 3. Taking Responsibility. Students will learn and know that citizens
have a responsibility to follow rules and laws.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to show examples of choices and consequences through
stories and role playing.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know that citizens have a responsibility to follow rules
and laws.
Main Activity:
Students will be told that they will learn why responsibility is crucial and what they can do
to demonstrate responsibility. Teacher will discuss how important recycling is and reusing an item is
one way to care for the environment. Taking care shows responsibility. Teacher will show pictures of
items that can be recycled. Have children list items that they can recycle at school and or home. Keep
track of what they recycle and discuss how they are following rules and taking responsibility to save the
Earth.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will discuss what It means to take responsibility.
Main Activity:
Students will read book page 8 and discuss the photos with the teacher. Students will brainstorm other ways one can take responsibility. Teacher will chart ideas. Students will draw pictures
of ways they can take responsibility such as cleaning their room, setting the table etc.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will identify signs and symbols.
Main Activity:
Students will look through appropriate level Social Studies books all based on symbols
and signs. Students will use post It notes to make comments about various symbols they find.
Evaluation:
Home work and practice pages 5-6.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know the vocabulary term responsibility and be able
to define it.
Main Activity:
Teacher will have students sit in a circle and open up with discussing the word
responsibility. Students will take a turn and try to discuss how them can be responsible. Students will
act out various senerios on how they can be responsible. Students will watch a short utube on
responsibility and discuss.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn and understand that citizens have a
responsibility to follow the rules and laws.
Main Activity:
Students will look at many books about rules and responsibilities and discuss. Students
will work in cooperative groups and come up with a way that they are responsible and make a class big
book. Each group will either write or dictate a way they all agree that they can be responsible for. Each
group will illustrate their page.
Evaluation:
Teacher will watch and monitor, students will share the book and add it to the class library.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
Musical instruments, objects to use for patterning, shapes, zoo-phonics cards, letter stamps, play-do, map globe, white boards, markers, crayons, paper, pocket chart, magnetic letters
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values.
0.1.2.2.1 Describe symbols, songs and traditions that identify our nation and state.
0.1.4.7.1 Identify examples of rules in the school community and explain why they exist; describe incentives for following rules and consequences for breaking rules.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 1 Volume 2 Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip. Students will be focus on
the letters Tt and Uu.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand that people learn through groups, such as
fellow friends, schools, communities, and different cultures.
Main Activity:
Students learn that people belong to groups. Students will understand that there are
many different kinds of groups, but that people within groups share something in common. Teacher will
discuss how some members of a group share common interests. Teacher will use chart paper and
draw four pictures of different sports. Students will be divided into groups as they choose their sport.
Students will then be in groups and share what they know about that sport. Students will understand
what the word group means.
Evaluation:
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to identify Mary McLeod Bethune as a
teacher who taught and showed respect.
Main Activity:
Students will learn about the life of Mary McLeod and what she did to improve education
for African Americans. Tell them she fought against unfair rules that prohibited African American
women from getting an education like everyone else. Students will understand that Mary McLeod is an
example of someone who showed respect for all people.
Evaluation:
watch and monitor.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand respect and why character counts.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 11 about Mary McLeod Bethune and discuss how her character
as a person helps children understand how she shows respect for people. Students will then brainstorm
what it means to be a good character. Students will draw pictures of things that show how a person can
be a good character and teacher will take dictation.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand the important role of a teacher/or parent
and what they do for students.
Main Activity:
Using yarn, a hole puncher, craft paper, and markers students will create a medal that can
be given to a teacher/parent for his hard work. Students will be encouraged to include a picture and a
one word phase such as “helper” on their medal.
Evaluation:
watch and monitor
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will review the terms responsibility and hero.
Main Activity:
Students will make a class book discussing what a good character stands for. Students
will draw various pictures of things that represent a good character. Students will work in groups of
three to four to create a page to add to our book. Teacher will take dictation. Students will each come
up and share their part of the story during author share time.
Evaluation:
Students will watch and listen.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
Musical instruments, objects to use for counting, number cards, plants, pictures and books of plants, zoo-phonics cards, letter stamps, play-do, map globe, white boards, markers, crayons, paper, pocket chart, magnetic letters , chart paper
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values.
0.1.4.7.1 Identify examples of rules in the school community and explain why they exist; describe incentives for following rules and consequences for breaking rules.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 2 Preview the Unit My Country. Students will determine word meanings while using them and visuals to preview the unit.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to listen to patriotic songs and understand that it corresponds to early America.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know and determine word meanings while using them and visuals to preview the unit.
Main Activity:
Students will read and discuss the big Idea of Americans being proud of their country. Students will be told they will learn about their, or the United States if they are new to the United States. Teacher will show a map and discuss the 50 states. Students will see pictures of the American flag and discuss what it stands for. Students will look at other flags and also explain what they stand for. Students will color the American Flag and discuss what the stripes and stars stand for.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be introduced to songs such as Yankee Doodle and Our Flag and discuss how they correspond to early America.
Main Activity:
Students will listen and read the with the teacher the lines to Yankee Doodle and Discuss. The teacher will explain that it is a very old American song that the soldiers sang long ago. Students will be encouraged to sing along. Students will watch a u-tube of the song to see the motions that go with it. Students will have the poem available in the classroom to track and read the words to the song.
Evaluation:
teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will listen and respond to a poem about the American Flag
Main Activity:
Teacher will discuss that the poem tells how many Americans feel about their flag and it describes its colors and shapes and explains what they mean. Students will continue working on their ongoing art project making their own American flag.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to understand and recognize important places and heroes in the United States.
Main Activity:
The teacher will provide a table of books based on America and its heroes and symbols. Students will look through books and do post it notes making comments or questions they have about their books. Students will then have a class poster set up that is labeled American Symbols. Students will be given a sheet of paper and instructed to use the books to find some sort of American symbol to add to the poster. Teacher will take dictations.
Evaluation:
Students will share their work in the author chair.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to discuss art from different cultures and understand that is was made long ago.
Main Activity:
Students will research and discuss different cultures they comes from and show the class their flag and some possible symbols they are aware of. Teacher can utube different national songs for different countries for children to hear.
Evaluation:
Students watch and monitor.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values. 0.1.2.2.1 Describe symbols, songs and traditions that identify our nation and state. 0.1.4.7.1 Identify examples of rules in the school community and explain why they exist; describe incentives for following rules and consequences for breaking rules.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
– Unit 2 Students will determine word meanings while using them and visuals to preview the unit. Students will learn patriotic songs and read them in pocket chart.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to listen to patriotic songs and understand that it corresponds to early America.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know and determine word meanings while using them and visuals to preview the unit.
Main Activity:
Students will be told they will learn about their, or the United States if they are new to the United States. Teacher will show a map and discuss the 50 states. Students will see pictures of the American flag and discuss what it stands for. Students will work in groups to make posters about what they know about the United States. Teacher will also have students work on posters of various symbols from their countries. The posters will be ongoing.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be introduced to songs such as Yankee Doodle and Our Flag and discuss how they correspond to early America.
Main Activity:
Students will watch a u-tube of the song to see the motions that go with it. Students will have the poem available in the classroom to track and read the words to the song. Students will each got a copy of various songs. They will work together to cut up lines and each student will help create a big book or the songs.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will listen and respond to a poem about the American Flag.
Main Activity:
Students will work together on both the class song big books as well as posters about the United States and their various countries. Students will have a center set up with many different books regarding The United States. They will write comments and questions on post it notes.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to understand and recognize important places and heroes in the United States.
Main Activity:
The teacher will provide a table of books based on America and its heroes and symbols. Students will look through books and do post it notes making comments or questions they have about their books. Students will write or dictate about their favorite hero and draw pictures of them. Students will hang them up on wall.
Evaluation:
Students will share their work in the author chair.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to discuss art from different cultures and understand that is was made long ago.
Main Activity:
Students will share their posters and big book of patriotic songs. Students will each write comments and questions. Students will sing both songs.
Evaluation:
Students watch and monitor.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values. 0.1.2.2.1 Describe symbols, songs and traditions that identify our nation and state. 0.1.4.7.1 Identify examples of rules in the school community and explain why they exist; describe incentives for following rules and consequences for breaking rules.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 2 Lesson 1 – Students will learn where the United States is located on a map.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
– Students will be subjected to the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know where the United States is located on a map.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 14 in their Social Studies books. Students will listen to the pledge on u-tube. Teacher will make a chart poem of the Pledge.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to identify the American Flag and other flags they might know.
Main Activity:
Students will look through Social Studies books and locate as many different flags as they can. Students will then draw one that they have never seen or noticed before. Students will share flags with their peers and try to find the country it comes from on the map (with the help of a teacher) Students will understand and begin to recognize what the American Flag looks like and where we can find America on a map.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will practice saluting to the flag and saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Main Activity:
Students will pretend to be in a school band and put on a demonstration. They will follow a very simple rhythm and pretend to be a marching band marching to support the United States. Students will watch u you tubes of various different American Marching bands and discuss.
Evaluation:
Teacher will watch and monitor.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn what makes up the American Flag.
Main Activity:
Students will learn the song “Three – Cornered Hat”. Four small flags will be passed around and children will stand in front of them and wave as everybody sings the song. The song tells you that the flag has three colors, stripes, After students get a turn teacher will explain what it each part of the flag represents. Students will discuss the various parts of the flag and what they stand for.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will identify the flag of the United States and the flag of their own country.
Main Activity:
Students will look at a world map and be able to locate the American flag and the United States and locate four different flags and which country they come to. A teacher will be actively involved during this activity to assist with locating flags and countries they come from.
Evaluation:
Students watch and monitor.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.3.1.1.2 Describe a map and a globe as a representation of a space. 0.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values. 0.1.2.2.1 Describe symbols, songs and traditions that identify our nation and state. 0.1.4.7.1 Identify examples of rules in the school community and explain why they exist; describe incentives for following rules and consequences for breaking rules.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 2 Lesson 2 Symbols of the United States. Students will know what a symbol means.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to recognize national symbols and icons such as the national flag, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what a symbol is.
Main Activity:
Students will discuss what they know about the United States and what a symbol stands for. Teacher will display an American Flag and ask students what it stands for. We will all stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Students will be asked to say how they feel about the United States. Teacher will chart ideas. Students will learn that a flag is a symbol to represent the United States.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn various American Symbols.
Main Activity:
Students will read Unit 2 Page 16 in their books and discuss. The teacher will lead the discussion and discuss what each of the symbols stand for. Students will each get pictures of the American symbols such as Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Balk Eagle and the American Flag. They will each create a poster writing about and decorating their symbols.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn that symbols stand for important things about our country. Americans have symbols to show pride.
Main Activity:
Students will use large index cards, paper towel tubes, crayons and glue to make flags with American symbols on them. Teacher will provide Social Studies books on symbols at a table for kids to see and use to enhance their comprehension of American Symbols.
Evaluation:
Teacher will watch and monitor.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will discuss various symbols from different countries know what they stand for.
Main Activity:
Students will bring in symbols from their own countries (if different than US) and children will discuss and add them to the Social Studies wall.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Teacher will read Fly Eagle Fly and discuss.
Main Activity:
Teacher will read Fly Eagle Fly and discuss with the kids. Students will then make a big class book of symbols they have learned about that represent the United States. Students will work on a page in groups and when the book is completed will add it to the class book library.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.2.2.1 Describe symbols, songs and traditions that identify our nation and state.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 3 Lesson 2: Our Leaders Students will learn what the vocabulary term for leader and principal stands for
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will understand that leaders in the government, community, school, and home. Make and enforce rules.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn that leaders in the country, government, community, and school and home. Make and enforce rules.
Main Activity:
Students will brainstorm what they know about leaders. Teacher will chart a KWL chart to help build background. Students will draw a picture of somebody they know who is a leader in their life.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will read Unit 2 Page 17 and discuss who is a leader.
Main Activity:
Students will learn who the president of the United States is and what he does. Students will understand that teachers are leaders in classes, mayors are leaders in cities. Students will look at the pictures of Obama and discuss what he is doing in the pictures. Students will do Practice page 17 in class during Social Studies center time.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand that we need leaders
Main Activity:
Teacher will point out that people work together to make and enforce rules, such as on a school board or town council. Students will work during Social Studies centers and pretend to be some type of group that is in charge of making rules. Students will then make some school wide rules and make posters to advertise them. Students will share posters with the class and then put them in the Social Studies Center.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to name who some leaders are.
Main Activity:
Students will brainstorm a list of leaders. Teacher can suggest some local ones too. Students will then pick one of the leaders and go home and try and brainstorm ideas about that leader. Students will bring in information and make a class book about their leader and work in groups helping each other with their project.
Evaluation:
Students will share their leader books with the class.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know who leaders are and what they do.
Main Activity:
To wrap up the week teacher will fill in KWL chart. Students will watch a variety of speeches from various leaders around the United States and the world and discuss.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.4.7.1 Identify examples of rules in the school community and explain why they exist; describe incentives for following rules and consequences for breaking rules.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 2 Lesson 3 Our Leaders. Students will know that a leader is a person who helps follow the rules.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will understand and learn that voting is a method of group-making decisions.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand that it is important to have leaders.
Main Activity:
Students will look through various Social Studies books and look at different kinds of leaders. Students will use post it notes to write comments or questions about the leaders. Students will think about which groups they belong to.. Students will think about members of those groups. Students will discuss who in the groups make decisions. Teacher will explain that sometimes people vote on decisions.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand what it means to vote
Main Activity:
Students will read in their Social Studies book page 19 and discuss. Students will review that a vote is a way to choose and participate as well as a way to act as a responsible citizen. Students will discuss photo on page 19. Students will understand that the girl in the picture is voting. Students will understand that this is only way to vote and there are many ways one can vote.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand the process of voting.
Main Activity:
Students will pretend to be getting a class pet. They will have three choices. Students will have a class discussion as to why they chose that animal. Students will then take a vote on which animal they would choose. Children will help sort and count votes.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand that by voting you are making choices.
Main Activity:
Students will brainstorm other things they could vote on. With prompting from the teacher if needed students will do another class vote and discuss results. This time teacher will make a tally sheet to see how the votes are tallied.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will Learn who Benjamin Franklin is and how he showed patriotism. They will recognize him as an American Hero.
Main Activity:
Students will read about Benjamin Franklin and discuss. Students will be asked to raise their hands if they think of themselves as writers. Teacher will write down the words inventor, printer, scientist, leader, and patriot. Students will understand that Benjamin Franklin was all of these. Teacher will make a word web on the board that tells about Benjamin Franklin.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values. 0.1.2.2.1 Describe symbols, songs and traditions that identify our nation and state. 0.1.4.7.1 Identify examples of rules in the school community and explain why they exist; describe incentives for following rules and consequences for breaking rules.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 2, Lesson 4 Living with Freedom. Students will learn that citizens of the United States of America have certain freedoms.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Unit 2, Lesson 4 Living with Freedom. Students will learn that citizens of the United States of America have certain freedoms.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand that citizens of the United states have certain freedoms.
Main Activity:
Students will discuss what freedom stands for. Teacher will help define freedom as not being under control of another country or person and to have the right to do what you like. Students will be reminded that the Statue of Liberty is one of the United States symbols of Freedom. Students will each receive a printable of the Statue of Liberty and color and discuss it. Students will take turns posing like the Statue of Liberty. Students will then listen to a song about the Statue of Liberty and pose.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn the social studies vocabulary word freedom and discuss.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 21 of their Social Studies book and discuss. Teacher will ask students why they think freedom is important to people. Teacher will ask why do you think people want to live with freedom? Class will discuss as teacher charts ideas.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what a petition is.
Main Activity:
Students will be divided into groups of three or four. Teacher will help each group brainstorm a list of ways to improve the school for children and teachers, such as food, etc. Have groups decide which improvement they want the most and discuss how this is using their freedom. Have children present their petitions and their improvement ideas to the principal.
Evaluation:
Teacher oversees groups and assists.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand what freedom means and be able to give examples.
Main Activity:
Teacher will write the frame on the board… In America, I am free to_________. Students will be invited to brainstorm ideas and teacher will chart them. Students will draw pictures. Students will then work independently creating a page of freedom on their own.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a book about freedom and what it stands for.
Main Activity:
During Social Studies centers students will make a book page on freedom. Each group will present their page to the class. It will be added to our class books.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.4.7.1 Identify examples of rules in the school community and explain why they exist; describe incentives for following rules and consequences for breaking rules. 0.2.1.1.1 Distinguish between individual needs (conditions necessary to survive) and individual wants (conditions desired to be happy).
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 3 Workers. The big idea is everyone has to do work.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will learn jobs of today and long ago.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn that many workers help us every day.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 22 and discuss. Teacher will discuss various workers at home, at school, and in the community. Students will discuss workers they know at school, in their family, and in their neighborhood. Teacher will start a KWL chart on what they know about workers.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will continue to learn about different jobs workers do.
Main Activity:
Students will discuss what a grocery store is. Students will brainstorm all different parts of a grocery store such as meat, vegetables, dairy, and grains. Students will discuss different jobs each people do.
Evaluation:
Kids watch and monitor and discuss with teacher.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to match a job description title with a description of the work that is involved with it.
Main Activity:
SStudents will listen and respond to a nonfiction story about a community worker. Students will read a story about A Busy Day at Mr. Kang’s Grocery Store. Students will learn about many of everyday tasks that a storekeeper must do to meet the needs of every customer. Students will then name stores in the area and discuss what owners need to do in order to meet customer needs.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will listen to various songs about the market and discuss.
Main Activity:
Students will listen to songs such as The Corner Grocery Store, To Market, To Market. Students will invite them to tell something will buy after singing the songs. They will draw a picture of what they bought and label it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn different types of jobs and discuss.
Main Activity:
Students will have a variety of flowers collected on a table. Students will arrange them and sort them and pretend to be storekeepers. They will be encouraged to set up the flowers to sell by putting them in different cans, watering them, labeling and pricing them etc.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.2.1.1.2 Identify goods and services that could satisfy a specific need or want. 0.2.4.5.1 Distinguish between goods (objects that can be seen or touched) and services (actions or activities).
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 3 Lesson 1 Students will identify the occupation of people at home, in the community, and at school.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to identify occupations their parents or guardians have.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know and identify occupation of people at school, in the community, and at home and be able to describe how each worker is helpful to others.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 27 of their Social Studies books and discuss. Teacher will prompt questions such as: What would a classroom b like without a teacher? What would happen at lunchtime without food servers? Why do we need so many different workers at school? Teacher will brainstorm and chart ideas. Students will be engaged in the whole group discussion.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
: Students will learn that many people live and work in a community.
Main Activity:
Students will read and look over page 28 and discuss. They will brainstorm and discuss how various jobs people do are super important such as fire fighters, and police officers how they help keep us safe.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what workers do in their school.
Main Activity:
Students will research and compile a picture graph that shows the number of workers in our school. They will draw a picture of each job and tally what they do at the school. Teacher will guide them and they will discuss what they do. Students will see all the various jobs and which people work more at which job.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn many different job types.
Main Activity:
Students will play a game of job concentration. First give students copies of patter A9. Have them identify the workers, color the pictures, and cut them out. Then they will work in partners or small groups and combine their pictures and mix them up. They will put cards facedown in rows and play the game of concentration.
Evaluation:
Teacher walks around and monitors and assists.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a big book of different kinds of jobs.
Main Activity:
Students will look at books about jobs at the social studies center. Students will choose an occupation and draw and write about it. They will create a big book page to add to a class book on job opportunities. Students will write about their page and illustrate it. At the end of the day or when the pages are fully finished students will watch as teacher helps assemble the book. Students will each share their page and have questions and comments.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.2.1.1.1 Distinguish between individual needs (conditions necessary to survive) and individual wants (conditions desired to be happy). 0.2.1.1.2 Identify goods and services that could satisfy a specific need or want.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
(Unit 3 Lesson 2) Working For Money. Students will know the relationship between work and money.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to explain and understand why people have jobs, and how these jobs impact their lives, families, and communities.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know the relationship between work and money.
Main Activity:
Students will learn about why people work. Have children brainstorm why people work. Start a chart with different jobs at house on one side and school on the other. Have students discuss why people work and write down the kids ideas. Have students name jobs they have at work and talk about what the kids have to do for those jobs. Then read page 31 with kids and discuss different ways people make money and how they use it to buy services.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to explain why people have to make choices when buying things.
Main Activity:
Teacher will have a display of stuffed animals. Children will raise their hands if they would like to have one of the stuffed animals. Then ask them to imagine that the toy if for sale in a store. Discuss what they would do if they wanted a toy. Then place a tag on the toy for ten dollars. Then show another tag for five dollars. And discuss choices. Have kids point to more expensive and less expensive toy. Talk about paying for the toy one with a five dollar bill and the other with two five dollar bills. Ask children to look, think, and choose and give reasons for their decisions. Point out that in order to get something (a toy) the child has to give something up (one or both bills) Repeat with other toys till all the children have had a chance.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Understand the consequences of choices.
Main Activity:
Students will understand that a want is different from a need. Students will have the three words look, think, and choose. Explain that families can rarely afford to buy everything they want. That is why we need to learn to make choices when shopping. Students will be introduced to the concept of saving money and what it means.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand the concept of saving money.
Main Activity:
Students will use recycled containers paint, assorted trimmings to make saving cans. Students will discuss that they will make a savings bank in which they can put coins and bills. Have kids bring in containers and make them. Students will take canister savings bank home to teach their families and save at home.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what the can choose for buying.
Main Activity:
Students will set up a class shoe store. Kids will make price tags on shoes. Students will discuss their own experiences about buying shoes. Students will look at the illustrations in the Big Book to explain what people do in a shoe store. Each day during the week kids will play different roles such as buying the shoes, selling the shoes. Before buy the shoes the students will be reminded to look, think, and choose.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.2.1.1.1 Distinguish between individual needs (conditions necessary to survive) and individual wants (conditions desired to be happy). 0.2.1.1.2 Identify goods and services that could satisfy a specific need or want. 0.2.4.5.1 Distinguish between goods (objects that can be seen or touched) and services (actions or activities).
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 2 Lesson 3 Using Resources. Students will learn about how people use resources to make goods
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to recognize that available resources determine how a basic need or want is met.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know how people use resources s to make goods.
Main Activity:
Students will learn the word resource and know that people use resources to make goods. They will read page 34 and discuss how resources are for everyone and we must be careful how we use them. Students will have a large piece of chart paper on the board prepared for them. It will be an outline of a tree. Students will each write down on a piece of paper different items that can make from a tree. Some examples might include: chair, paper, oranges etc.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand what resources are.
Main Activity:
Students will look through magazines and or newspapers and make a book of resources. Their book should include four parts: water, soil, trees, and animals. Then have them search through old magazines and newspapers for pictures of goods and products that come from each main resource category. Students will share books when they are finished.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand the importance of recycling and how it effects resources.
Main Activity:
Students will create a daily journal this week detailing the ways they attempted to conserve resources, such as recycling or reusing a product. Have them enlist the help of their parents. After a week of logging, ask them to share their experiences with the class. Discuss how important conserving resource is and how easy it can be.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a resource corner and understand what it stands for.
Main Activity:
Students will be guided to start a resource corner with information about caring for Earth. They will look through social studies books on recycling, magazines, and printed out pictures by the teacher. Students will each pick one area of information and design a cover for it. Teacher will put of covers in the Social studies center.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a class book or resources.
Main Activity:
Students will look through many books on resources in the social studies center. Each small group will choose one resource and write about it and illustrate it. Teacher will help assemble the class book and each group will come up to the authors chair and share their page.
Evaluation:
Questions and comments as teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.2.1.1.1 Distinguish between individual needs (conditions necessary to survive) and individual wants (conditions desired to be happy). 0.2.1.1.2 Identify goods and services that could satisfy a specific need or want. 0.2.4.5.1 Distinguish between goods (objects that can be seen or touched) and services (actions or activities).
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 3 Lesson 4 From the Farm to your Table. Students will learn about following steps to discover how a resource is used to make a product. Corn is grown, cleaned, processed to tortillas, and then delivered to the home.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
From the Farm to your Table. Students will know how we get food today.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn that it takes and ample amount of steps for a crop to get to the supermarket to be sold.
Main Activity:
Students will be told that they will learn how products are made and how they get to the store. Every day the food students eats comes from a farm. Some food comes directly from farms while other food goes to a factory and can be used to make different foods. Students will see pictures of apples, oranges and plums and know that they go from the farm to the store. They will then see pictures of jam, tortillas, and know they have to go to the factory to get made into products. Students will discuss this while the teacher draws illustrations and discusses.
Evaluation:
Teacher discusses and guides lesson.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will continue to learn about the process from the farm to the table.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 36 and discuss what happens in the pictures with the guidance of the teacher. Students will do practice page 28 during center time and label and mark how the sequential practice is done from the farm to the table.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know which foods go from the farm to the table and which fruits get processed at a factory.
Main Activity:
Students will look through many science and social studies books about farming. They will have a list divided into two sections (Natural and Made in a Factory) and will have to place pictures of what they find in the magazines (or they can draw themselves). Students will discuss their charts with their peers and ask questions and make verbal comments.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand how a factory is run.
Main Activity:
Invite students to pretend they are running a factory during social studies. Ask them to vote on a good that the class wants to make. Then have them list the steps in making that good. Encourage children to bring materials from home to contribute to the class factory. Have children make their products using the step by step they listed.
Evaluation:
Teacher assists watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a book marking the sequential facts of Farm to Table.
Main Activity:
Students will work whole group and brainstorm steps to explain how an item gets from the farm to the factory to the store. Students will break up into cooperative groups and design a page that they are assigned to. It will become a class book and students will share their part of the book to the class in small groups.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.2.1.1.2 Identify goods and services that could satisfy a specific need or want. 0.2.4.5.1 Distinguish between goods (objects that can be seen or touched) and services (actions or activities).
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
– Unit 3 Lesson 5 Goods around the World. Students will recognize that all jobs are significant.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
– Students will know how to compare and contrast jobs around the world. Students will be able to distinguish between producers and consumers.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will recognize that all jobs are significant.
Main Activity:
Students will learn that the United States gets products and goods from other countries and how we sell products and goods to other countries. Teacher will explain that people around the world have jobs and selling products and goods that we buy.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn what far away and nearby stand for.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 37 and discuss. Teacher will guide the discussion and have students point to each picture as they are discussing them. After teacher will help the students locate the continents on a globe or map. They will discuss how they think they get products to the United States from there. Students will learn that different workers make different products and will discuss how they do this.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know that certain products can only be found in certain areas.
Main Activity:
Students will be invited to brainstorm reasons that certain goods may be found only in certain areas of the country or in other countries. For example, different types of rice grow better in Southern California than in Canada and better in areas of Asia as opposed to Europe. Students will interview their parents about products found in their homes that are from different countries. They will draw pictures of this and label.
Evaluation:
Teacher will watch and monitor.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know that some people trade goods with each other to get what they need.
Main Activity:
Students will be asked to cut out ten pictures of products advertised in newspapers or magazines. Then students will talk about their products and make trades with other peers to get the product that they want or need.
Evaluation:
Teacher assists watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to name some products that come from different countries than their own.
Main Activity:
Students will look at Social Studies books about products from around the world and write post it notes with comments and questions on them. Students will do page 29 in their practice workbook during small center time. Teacher will work with kids in this center.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.2.1.1.2 Identify goods and services that could satisfy a specific need or want. 0.2.4.5.1Distinguish between goods (objects that can be seen or touched) and services (actions or activities).
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 4 Preview the Unit Where We Live. Students will know that people in different places around the world.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to grasp that people live in different places around the world.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to grasp that people live in different places around the world.
Main Activity:
Students will know that people live in different places around the world. Students will discuss where they live. Teachers will help students to know where their home address is. Teacher will be sure they understand that if they got lost, a police officer or other trusted adult would ask for their address. Students will each practice writing their name and address on an index card and use sparkles to make a border.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will recognize similarities and differences between two things.
Main Activity:
Students will display a globe and lead children in a variation of “The houses That Jack Built”, beginning with the Earth and ending with the address of our school.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know beliefs and related behaviors of characters from times past.
Main Activity:
Students will read How the Sky Got its Stars by Dona Perrone. Students will discuss what they know about coyotes and teacher will show various pictures of coyotes and note that they can look like some breeds of dogs. Teacher will discuss how coyotes are wild animals that are smaller than wolves and very very smart. They will learn that Native Americans wrote many stories including a coyote, because they admired their ability to survive. Teacher will read aloud and ask students to predict. Teacher will tell them that a legend is a very old story that people have told over and over again. After reading and questions prompted by the teacher students will take turns acting out the legend. They will then draw a picture about it and write their favorite part of the story.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and observes.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will identify ways that they coyote was different from other animals.
Main Activity:
Students will read various other folk tales and compare and contrast them to How Stars Got it Stars. They will make a Venn diagram of both stories and notice similarities and differences.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will create a poem that plays the tune to Frere Jacques and sing it and write it down. Teacher will guide students to make sure the poem rhymes.
Main Activity:
Students will read other folk tales and write comments and questions about them.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.3.1.1.1 Describe spatial information depicted in simple drawings and pictures. 0.3.1.1.2 Describe a map and a globe as a representation of a space. 0.3.2.3.1 Identify the physical and human characteristics of places, including real and imagined places.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Students will know four different land types: valley, hill, plain, and mountain.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Teacher can draw a Venn diagram that has a land on one circle and water on another. Students will discuss land and water and both. Teacher will write down what students are brainstorming and have a class discussion.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know four different land types: valley, hill, plain, and mountain.
Main Activity:
Teacher can draw a Venn diagram that has a land on one circle and water on another. Students will discuss land and water and both. Teacher will write down what students are brainstorming and have a class discussion.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know and review the vocabulary words: Earth, land, valley, plain, mountain, hill, water, stream, lake, river, and ocean.
Main Activity:
Teacher will use a large piece of chart paper and write the above objectives of the day vocabulary words on them. Students will discuss what each word is. Students will break up into centers and choose a vocabulary word and draw a picture of it. Teacher will provide smaller squares of paper to draw on. When the child is finished drawing they will paste it next to the vocabulary word on the chart paper.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and observes.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Teacher watches and observes.
Main Activity:
Students will read pages 43 and 44 in their Social Studies books and discuss. Students will look through National Geography magazines and cut out pictures of different types of land and label them.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a big book or different types of Land on Earth.
Main Activity:
Teacher will have a guided lesson on discussing different types of land on Earth. Students will work in center groups and choose a land to work on and write about on a big page. Students will work together to write about their land and then each do an illustration about it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Teacher will assemble big book and students will share.
Main Activity:
Students will finish their page in the class Land big book. Students will share pages and read to the class. During centers students will look at all kinds of books about land. Students will write post it notes with comments or questions.
Evaluation:
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.3.1.1.1 Describe spatial information depicted in simple drawings and pictures. 0.3.1.1.2 Describe a map and a globe as a representation of a space. 0.3.2.3.1 Identify the physical and human characteristics of places, including real and imagined places.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Students will compare and contrast models and maps.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will use models and maps to describe real places.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will compare and contrast maps.
Main Activity:
Students will be given many different maps to look at. They will talk about what a map is and compare how they are alike and different. They will notice blue for water, green for land etc.
Evaluation:
Teacher will watch and listen.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what a neighborhood is and understand the vocabulary word transportation.
Main Activity:
Students will look at a variety of maps in their social studies student education. Students will discuss compare and contrast various different types of models and maps.
Evaluation:
Teacher discusses asks questions.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make different types of maps including their neighborhood.
Main Activity:
Teacher will model how to make a map. Students will look at various different books filled with maps and discuss. Then during centers students will break up and create their own maps. They will compare and contrast maps.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to identify map symbols and make their own maps symbols.
Main Activity:
During whole group teacher will model how to follow a map symbol key. Students will read maps together and discuss. Students will then brainstorm how to make their own map key using their created symbols. Students will share and then work will get hung up in the social studies area.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will draw a map of school to their house how best they think they can.
Main Activity:
Students will make their own maps from school to their house free hand. They will create a map symbol key. Teacher will assemble each map into a class book of maps.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.3.1.1.1 Describe spatial information depicted in simple drawings and pictures. 0.3.1.1.2 Describe a map and a globe as a representation of a space. 0.3.2.3.1 Identify the physical and human characteristics of places, including real and imagined places.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Volume 4 Unit 1 Rooster’s Off to see the World. Students will know the sound /h/, and know that it is spelled Hh.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will understand the concept of writer’s workshop and work on sentences that follow a specific sequence.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what a city and suburb are.
Main Activity:
Teacher will show various pictures of cities and suburbs. Teacher will guide a discussion on how they are alike and different. Then teacher will put a Venn Diagram up and students will help talk about same and different aspects of suburbs and cities.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know and understand characteristics of a farm.
Main Activity:
Teacher will show various different kinds of farm books and discuss characteristics of a farm. Students will then break into centers and draw a picture of their dream farm and label it. Teacher watches and monitors.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will recognize that different regions need different kinds of shelters.
Main Activity:
Students will read Social Studies pages on different regions and shelters. Teacher will provide many books showing different kinds of regions and shelters where people live. Students will work during centers and explore the various books and write questions and comments about it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Learning and Language Objectives: Students will be able to compare city life from farm life.
Main Activity:
Students will be able to compare and contrast city life and farm life. Teacher will read the story A City Mouse and discuss the problems of the mouse and living in the country verses city. Students will choose where they would prefer to live and draw and write about it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Student will make a big book of regions.
Main Activity:
Students will work in groups during centers and be assigned a different region to draw and write about. Students will work together and teacher will assemble and make a big book of regions.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.2.4.5.1 Distinguish between goods (objects that can be seen or touched) and services (actions or activities). 0.3.1.1.2 Describe a map and a globe as a representation of a space. 0.3.2.3.1 Identify the physical and human characteristics of places, including real and imagined places.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 5 Time Goes By. Students will understand and be able to identify the sequence of the days of the week.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will know the vocabulary terms for yesterday, change, and tomorrow.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know and name the days of the week.
Main Activity:
Teacher will do Morning Message and students will name and sing the days of the week. They will clap them out in syllables. Students will take turns pretending to be the teacher and do guide students through calendar.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know the words change, yesterday, and tomorrow.
Main Activity:
During morning message students will discuss what change means. Students will give many different examples of change. The teacher will guide them to talk about how our day changes. Students will tell their neighbors different ways they feel change can happen. They will draw a picture of something that can change and write about it during centers.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know days of the week.
Main Activity:
Students will work during centers to paint the words of the week.
Evaluation:
Students will read their painted days to a neighbor while teacher watches and observes.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what yesterday and tomorrow mean.
Main Activity:
Teacher will act out the words yesterday and tomorrow by pointing thumbs backwards for yesterday and forward for tomorrow. Students till practice the calendar naming what yesterday was and what tomorrow will be.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will draw pictures of what they did yesterday and write about it.
Main Activity:
Students will discuss that yesterday already happened. They will brainstorm things they did in school yesterday and at home. Teacher will take a dictation if students cannot write themselves what they did.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.1.1.1 Use a variety of words to reference time in the past, present and future; identify the beginning, middle and end of historical stories.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 5 Use a one Month Calendar. Students will be able to place events in temporal order.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to use a calendar to record events and recognize important dates.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know the vocabulary words for month, week, day, and calendar.
Main Activity:
Students will learn about a one-month calendar. To help children learn the days of the week, they will learn a song. On seven sheets of paper write the days of the week. Ask one student to stand in the front of the group and display them in order. Students will trade days and put themselves in order.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will name the days of the week in order.
Main Activity:
Students will look at Big Book to point out a day, a week, and the name of the month. Then the teacher will ask questions such as Which day begins in the month of February. Students will continue to answer guided questions. They will get a blank calendar and fill in the days of the week and numbers.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will be able to complete homework and practice page 44.
Main Activity:
Teacher will read aloud review question at the bottom of the page, and help children name the days of the week in order. Teacher will continue to work with kids asking various questions. Students will fill out paper. Students will discuss what chores they do at home and on which day.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a journal about things they do in a week.
Main Activity:
Students will watch as teacher models how to make a blank book with seven sheets of paper and one sheet of construction paper for the front cover. They will date each pager and write what they did on that page. They will share their journals with their peers after seven days.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a journal about things they do in a week.
Main Activity:
Students will continue to work on their journal.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.1.1.1 Use a variety of words to reference time in the past, present and future; identify the beginning, middle and end of historical stories.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 5 Months of the Year. Students will identify the 12 months of the year.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to place the names of the months in temporal order.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn the 12 months of the year.
Main Activity:
Teacher will say the months of the year and the order in which they occur.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches helps and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know the names of the months in temporal order.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 56 and discuss. Students will name what month their birthdays fall on and come up and point to it. Students will be encouraged to find differences among names of the months. How many begin with capital J, etc? Students will rainbow write the months of the year.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will write the months of the year.
Main Activity:
Teacher will write the months of the year on index cards. Children will match each card to a month on Big Book page 56. They will be encouraged to name months in a single line and then read them aloud together.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn about a one-year calendar.
Main Activity:
Students will read and recite a poem that the teacher puts on chart paper on page 57. Students will be encouraged to count on their fingers as they listen. Students will learn how each month can be written numerically as well. Students will write the months using numbers.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will chart and use graph skills while using a calendar.
Main Activity:
Students will look at flip book page 57 and discuss. Students will be asked to discuss how they use the calendar in their family. Students will be asked all sorts of guided questions where they need to look at a calendar to answer. Teacher watches and monitors.
Evaluation:
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.1.1.1 Use a variety of words to reference time in the past, present and future; identify the beginning, middle and end of historical stories. 0.4.1.2.1 Describe ways people learn about the past.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 5, Change Over Time. Students will know that change occurs over time from season to season.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will be able to place the names of the months in temporal order.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn about seasons and how places and people change from season to season.
Main Activity:
Students will be invited to identify which season they are in now and write its name at the top of the board. Teacher will ask what comes next and next and continue till all four seasons are on the board. Teacher will use arrows to show that they make a circle. They show how seasons come again and again. Teacher will continue to name all the seasons as they go around in circles.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn the word season.
Main Activity:
Students will look at page 58 in flip book and discuss. Teacher will sing Winter Spring Summer or Fall song. As students look at picture they will be asked to notice how things seasons are different and how some are the same. Students will be asked various questions to help them see clearly some differences in seasons.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will write about their favorite season.
Main Activity:
Students will look at various books about seasons and discuss. They will then choose their favorite season and draw a picture of it and tell why they like it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will do practice page 47 and understand change over time.
Main Activity:
Students will do practice page 47 in small groups and discuss.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a class book of the four seasons.
Main Activity:
Students will make a class big book of four seasons.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.3.2.3.1 Identify the physical and human characteristics of places, including real and imagined places.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Students will recognize the reasons for President’s Day in February.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will know and be able to explain the word honesty.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will recognize the reasons for President’s Day in February.
Main Activity:
Teacher will explain that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were two past Presidents that affected the way we live today. : Students will learn basic jobs of the president. Students will learn that honesty is very important and that a president must be honest in order to have the people believe and trust in him.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know why we have President’s Day in February.
Main Activity:
Students will do an art activity in order to recognize both Washington and Lincoln.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will recognize and define what honesty stands for.
Main Activity:
Teacher will have a class discussion about honesty. We will talk about how it is important to be honest with our friends and family. Students will draw a picture of themselves being honest with their peers. They will write in caps what they are talking about.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will discuss when their birthday is write it down and draw a picture of themselves celebrating.
Main Activity:
Students will make a class book of birthdays. Students will each write their birthday down and draw a picture of what they do on it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know why George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were trustworthy.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 59 in their social studies books and discuss. They will discuss why they think we celebrate these birthdays. Students will discuss why the President’s name is on money. Students will pretend they are president and write a small story about what they would do.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values. 0.4.1.1.1 Use a variety of words to reference time in the past, present and future; identify the beginning, middle and end of historical stories.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6. Stories of the Past. Students will know that we can learn about stories from the past.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will know some American Holidays.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Teacher will read Big Idea on page 315 Teacher manual and discuss.
Main Activity:
Teacher will do a KWL chart on Things they know about people living in the past.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors while charting KWL chart.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know they can learn from stories about the past.
Main Activity:
Students will look at page 60 and discuss. Students will be asked if they have ever seen a show or pictures about people of the past. Students will discuss what they can learn from the past. Teacher will discuss Plimouth Plantation in Plymonth Ma. Students will watch as teacher charts information.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn old songs from the past.
Main Activity:
Teacher will play “Yankee Doodle”, and encourage children to join in. They will notice and repeat the last verse: “Mind the music and the stop/ And with the girls be handy. Students will then learn simple dance steps and know that the song could be about a boy and a girl going to a dance. Students will then partner dance.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will look at picture on page 60 and discuss how houses from long ago are different than from today
Main Activity:
Students will notice the girl was carrying a candle and discuss why. Teacher will ask students where the vegetables the boy is holding came from.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will work on Cause and Effect.
Main Activity:
Students will be invited to act out nursery rhyme Jack and Jill. They will discuss the cause and the effect of the poem by acting it out. Teacher will write cause and effect on the board and students will know the difference between the two words.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values. 0.4.1.1.1 Use a variety of words to reference time in the past, present and future; identify the beginning, middle and end of historical stories.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6 The Story of George Washington. Students will listen and respond to a biography of
George Washington.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will recognize important details of George Washington’s life.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will identify and remember why George Washington was a great leader.
Main Activity:
Before reading page 61 in the big book and be asked about George Washington and recall about him. Teacher will discuss various things about the past such as how people got around in the older days, how there were no markets or restaurants.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will read and discuss story about George Washington.
Main Activity:
Students will read and discuss about George Washington. Teacher will ask guided based questions about George Washington and life during this time.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will draw and write about George Washington.
Main Activity:
Teacher will ask questions about George Washington. Students will then draw and write about one fact they learned in the biography.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will understand Cause and Effect in relationship to George Washington.
Main Activity:
Teacher will help students understand that one way to learn about somebody is something he or she might have done and what happens later. Teacher will write Cause and Effect and help students understand how it can relate to George Washington. Example George Washington led the army and effect is people wanted him to be their president.
Evaluation:
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will draw a portrait of GW and write down facts about him.
Main Activity:
Students will draw a portrait of GW and write facts about him.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.1.1.1 Use a variety of words to reference time in the past, present and future; identify the beginning, middle and end of historical stories. 0.4.1.2.1 Describe ways people learn about the past. 0.4.2.4.1 Compare and contrast traditions in a family with those of other families, including those from diverse backgrounds.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6 Stories about the past. Students will make timeline of events during the era of George Washington.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will read books about George Washington and be able to recall facts.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will recall facts about George Washington.
Main Activity:
Students will show a u-tube about the life of George Washington. Students will look on page 67 in book and use it as a comparison to help make a time line about George Washington.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know that George Washington was a farmer and at one point had five different farms that he visited nearly every day on horseback.
Main Activity:
Students will look at all different books about farming and then draw a picture of their idea of George Washington as a farmer. They will write a sentence about their picture.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a sculpture of George Washington.
Main Activity:
Students will looks at different books about George Washington and discuss. They will use modeling clay to make a head sculpture of George Washington. They will have various colors to add the wig etc. Students will display their work and write about how they made it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a big book about the life of George Washington.
Main Activity:
Teacher will help students break up into groups to discuss the timeline of George Washington. Center groups will break up and choose different parts of his life to write about. They will write and illustrate as a group.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will continue to work on George Washington Class Big Book.
Main Activity:
Students will finish up big books. They will each take group turns to share their work. Students will write comments and questions on post it notes. Students will add book into the class library.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.1.1.1 Use a variety of words to reference time in the past, present and future; identify the beginning, middle and end of historical stories. 0.4.1.2.1 Describe ways people learn about the past. 0.4.2.4.1 Compare and contrast traditions in a family with those of other families, including those from diverse backgrounds.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6 American Holidays. Students will learn about holidays celebrated in the United States.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will identify national patriotic holidays.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn holidays celebrated in the United States.
Main Activity:
Students will recall holidays they have celebrated for far in school. We will check over the school calendar in Unit 5 and discuss holidays. Students will be invited name a holiday and discuss what it is. Teacher will chart all answers and keep chart up for the week.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know the vocabulary words for holiday and Thanksgiving.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 65-66 and discuss.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what Thanksgiving means.
Main Activity:
Students will draw and label pictures of what Thanksgiving is all about.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a Thanksgiving book.
Main Activity:
Students will work whole group to brainstorm a story about Thanksgiving. Students will break up into groups and illustrate story.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will act out a play about Thanksgiving.
Main Activity:
Students will act out a play about Thanksgiving.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.1.1.1 Use a variety of words to reference time in the past, present and future; identify the beginning, middle and end of historical stories. 0.4.1.2.1 Describe ways people learn about the past. 0.4.2.4.1 Compare and contrast traditions in a family with those of other families, including those from diverse backgrounds.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6 American Holidays.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Unit 6 American Holidays.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will draw a Still Life about the holiday Thanksgiving.
Main Activity:
Students will review what Thanksgiving is all about and draw a still life representing it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make Fact Cards about people from long ago including holidays they know.
Main Activity:
Students will look at a variety of Social Studies books about American Holidays and draw fact cards on index cards for three different holidays.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will play an olden game of the past called Dominoes and know that they used to play this on holidays in the past.
Main Activity:
Provide a set of dominoes and encourage students to find one with the most dots, zero dots, and so on. Depending on children’s interest, partners of simply build roads by counting and matching numbers of dots.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Children will make a Log Cabin.
Main Activity:
Students will know that long ago people lived in log cabins. Students will use popsicle sticks to create a log cabin.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will draw pictures of American Holidays Past.
Main Activity:
Students will draw and label pictures of American Holidays from the past.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.1.1.1 Use a variety of words to reference time in the past, present and future; identify the beginning, middle and end of historical stories. 0.4.1.2.1 Describe ways people learn about the past. 0.4.2.4.1 Compare and contrast traditions in a family with those of other families, including those from diverse backgrounds.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6, Students will read a time line.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will use vocabulary words related to time and chronology correctly.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will place events in temporal order.
Main Activity:
Students will be told they will learn about a way to show the order in which events happen. They will read aloud the poem “Old Year, New” on page 301 and discuss names and sequence of months. Each child will get one month from the calendar and stand up and try to put them in order from left to right.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know and be able to read a holiday time line.
Main Activity:
Students will read Hurray for the Fourth of July. This book describes descriptions of a family’s holiday activities with patriotic rhymes and songs. Students will draw a picture of their favorite part of the book and share..
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will read a time line.
Main Activity:
Students will read pages 67 and discuss. Students will make their own time lines about holidays or important events in their lives.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will read information about a time line.
Main Activity:
Students will do practice page 52 in small groups and discuss. They will then make a time line of events that have happened in school this year.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know that time lines help show things in order.
Main Activity:
Students will make a time line of themselves from birth till now.
Evaluation:
Teacher assists watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.2.4.1 Compare and contrast traditions in a family with those of other families, including those from diverse backgrounds.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6 Students will know what various types of time lines are.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will know what a time line stands for.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will brainstorm holidays they celebrate and like.
Main Activity:
Teacher will need small squares of paper, three for each child, crayons or markers, and Activity pattern A15. Students will be encouraged to commemorate holidays as well as other holidays that their family observes. Next to each holiday, write the name of the month. Each child will get a patter of A15. They will paste their pictures above or below the correct month for that holiday. Children will share their time lines and ask each other questions about them.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a three section time line.
Main Activity:
Students will choose a subject that has three steps to process. Students will write down the words first next and last on each column. They will draw and label pictures and share with the class.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
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Main Activity:
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Evaluation:
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will brainstorm a list of activities they do each day in class.
Main Activity:
Teacher will write list on the board. Volunteers will illustrate various parts of the day. Students will arrange pictures in sequential order.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will write a How to Story.
Main Activity:
Students will use the writer’s workshop process and brainstorm and write a How To story using first, next, then, and last.
Evaluation:
Teacher assists and helps edit stories.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.2.4.1 Compare and contrast traditions in a family with those of other families, including those from diverse backgrounds.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6, Students will discuss local Holidays across America.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will discuss local holidays across America.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will discuss local holidays across America.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 68 and discuss. Teacher will ask prompted guided questions. Students will then choose a holiday that celebrate and write and draw about it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn about festivals everywhere.
Main Activity:
Students will learn about celebrated festivals around the world. Students will divide into groups and learn about a different festival. They will read a book about it and illustrate and write about it. They will share with the class.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will design a make up festival.
Main Activity:
Students will work in pairs and design a make up festival. They will write and illustrate it and share it with the class.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn about changing of season festivals.
Main Activity:
Students will learn about changing of season festivals through books. They will choose a festival and write and draw about it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will read books about holidays.
Main Activity:
Students will read books about holidays and put post It notes in them with questions and comments.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.1.2.1 Describe ways people learn about the past. 0.4.2.4.1 Compare and contrast traditions in a family with those of other families, including those from diverse backgrounds.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6 Colonial Life. Students will recognize how people lived in earlier times.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will compare and contrast life in the present with life in the past.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will brainstorm what they know about people in America who lived long ago.
Main Activity:
Students will do a KWL chart about American long ago.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know the vocabulary terms for present, past, and future..
Main Activity:
Students will brainstorm vocabulary meanings of objective words and write them in a sentence.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will distinguish life in the present verses life in the past.
Main Activity:
Students will look at books about America and discuss differences of like now and long ago. Students will ask questions to be answered and teacher will add to KWL chart.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what the past is and what the present is.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 69 and 70 and discuss. Students will do page 53 in practice book and discuss.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a book about the past present and future.
Main Activity:
They will make it three pages at least and write and draw about how they notice the world under these three categories. Teacher watches and monitors.
Evaluation:
Students share work and discuss.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
0.4.1.2.1 Describe ways people learn about the past. 0.4.2.4.1 Compare and contrast traditions in a family with those of other families, including those from diverse backgrounds.
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6 Students will tell fact from fiction.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will know what fact and fiction stand for.
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Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will define fact and fiction
Main Activity:
Students will listen to the same story two different ways page 364 Teacher edition and do a Venn diagram with first story and second story as titles. They will discuss.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will identify story elements that are make – believe, such as talking animals.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 71 in student edition and discuss.
Evaluation:
Teacher will prompt questions and monitor.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will read non-fiction books that they think a family member would enjoy looking at.
Main Activity:
Students will take home non-fiction book and share at home. They will be encouraged to talk about things they think make the book true. They will write facts on an index card.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make hats from the olden days.
Main Activity:
Students will make bonnets and teacher will explain that women and girls always wore something on their head. When the girls are ready to sew their bonnets, help them thread. Boys will make pilgrim hats.
Evaluation:
Students watch and monitor.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will play a colonial game called Quitos.
Main Activity:
Teacher will tape a line on the floor and place the target a few feet away. Model for children how to stand behind the line and gently toss a ring toward the target.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Students will know how to recognize how people lived in earlier times.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will compare and contrast life in the present with life in the past.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will recognize how people lived in earlier times.
Main Activity:
Students will know the vocabulary terms for present, past, and future.
Evaluation:
Students will look at pictures of people today, in the past, and futuristic pictures and understand what the vocabulary terms stand for.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will read page 69-70 and see how people lived in the olden days.
Main Activity:
Read pages 69-70 and discuss. Students will make hats from olden days and learn that girls did most of the sewing.
Evaluation:
Teacher will prompt questions and monitor.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn games from the past.
Main Activity:
Students will be introduced to Quitos a colonial children’s game played in the past. Teacher will tape a line on the floor and place the target a few feet away. Model for children how to stand behind the line and gently toss a
Evaluation:
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will act out colonial days activities
Main Activity:
Teacher will provide a simple play and kids will take turns acting out different parts of it.
Evaluation:
teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will make a big book of colonial times.
Main Activity:
Students will draw and illustrate facts about life in the olden days. They will work in groups. Teacher will break kids into groups to work on various parts of the book.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Materials / Resources (including technology)
State of Minnesota Standards Covered
Weekly Informational Knowledge Overview - (Students will know...)
Unit 6 Family History. Students will understand family interdependence.
Weekly Procedural Knowledge Overview - (Students will be able to...)
Students will tell about family heritage using stories, songs, drawings, and family trees.
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Friday
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will learn the vocabulary word for ancestors.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 74 and discuss what ancestors are and how they lived long ago. Students will brainstorm who their ancestors are and discuss. They will then make a family tree. They will draw the base of the tree and add lots of leaves. They will make their tree in school and then take it home to have their parents help them.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will know what current events are.
Main Activity:
Students will read page 75 and discuss major events of the past and current events. Students will read some newspaper articles guided by the teacher. Students will make a Children’s News Journal throughout the next week. They will find current event stories and cut them out and add them in.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will think about an event that would affect their school life, such as a new playground or cafeteria food added.
Main Activity:
They will become reporters and interview classmates about what they think of the current event and how they would like to change it or stay with it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will brainstorm ideas to change school for next week and make a big book of them.
Main Activity:
Students will work in groups the next two days and brainstorm ideas to change the school for the following year. They will write down what they would like to change and illustrate it.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and monitors.
Learning and Language Objectives:
Students will finish big book of school changes.
Main Activity:
Students will finish big book of what they would like to change for the following school year. They will present it to the Head Master and hope they get their changes.