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Wanted Poster
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The students will examine a fairy tale character of their choice in great detail. They will then create a wanted poster that includes the following: a picture of the character, a written description of his/her appearance, a reward amount, and reason(s) the character is wanted.
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The Kissing Hand
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Helping make the transition from Home to School easier for the Pre-K child.
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Home to School - Made Easy
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This unit is to help in making the transition from home to school as easy and comfortable as possible. The child will become familiar with the teachers in the classroom and the routine and setting of the room.
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Life Cycle and Migration of Monarch Butterfly
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Following development of a butterfly, students set it free to begin a journey to Mexica for winter.
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Turtles
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The students will learn the basic parts of a turtle, the life cycle of turtles, and the kinds of turtles that live in St. Lawrence County.
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Once Upon A Fairytale
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This is a primary English/Language Arts unit on Fairytales. The unit will take about 4
weeks to complete. This unit will stress the elements of a fairytale. In this unit students
will read for the understanding of the character, setting, and plot points of specific
fairytales. The children will create their own fairytales through the writing process. With
the use of technology, the children will produce a fairytale book complete with
illustrations.
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100th Day Celebration
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How we can we help people in our community? What are some things we can be thankful for? How can we get information from many people all over the world? What steps do we need to take when planning a project or celebration?
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What Do You Hear?
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Students in Pre-Kindergarten will begin to learn to discriminate sounds at the beginning of words. Each student will be able to isolate the sound at the beginning of his/her name, and find other words that begin with the same sound.
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Plants
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A plant is a living system made up of parts that work together to meets its needs. In these activities, children explore plant growth and discover the parts of plants.
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Let's Write a Book!
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THe purpose of this experience is to write a book with third grade students to honor their retiring teacher. For presentation, the book will be made into a power point production.
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A Parade of Penguins
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Kindergarten students will study four different types of penguins over a five day period. This unit will be completed during the winter season between units dealing with bears and hibernation and eskimos and environment. Through a variety of group and individual work and projects students will learn about special characterisitics that each penguin possesses to adapt to their environment.
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Under the Big Top!
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Students become better listeners by performing specific tasks which help them to differentiate between the varied levels of listening.
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Rhyme Time
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This is a Kindergarten unit on rhyming. The unit will strongly emphasize rhymes found in literature. Incorporated into the unit will be listening to books, poems, songs, and words that contain rhymes. Students will compair words in a variety of ways to decide if they rhyme. Students will also write rhyming words. As a culminationg activity, students will do a re-write of a rhyming book. The unit will take approximately three weeks to complete.
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Nursery Rhymes
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Essential Questions: Why do we learn nursery rhymes? What makes a nursery rhyme interesting? If you were to write a nursery rhyme, what would you choose to write about and why?
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Kindergarten Pets
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This unit is to make the students aware of the different animals that make good pets. It also teaches the students how to care for pets.
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Life on a Farm
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Science/ELA
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Down on the Farm
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Essential Questions: What kind of background information helps children develop vocabulary in order to become effective communicators? What skills do children need to develop to become lifelong readers and writers? How can young children practice problem solving? What kinds of technology can young children utilize in order to collect information? What kind of practice in numbers and numeration helps young children understand basic mathematical concepts?
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Goodness Corillas in our Community
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The purpose of this learning experience is to extend student's prior knowledge of the term community.
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How Plants Grow
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This unit combines literature, technology and art to introduce students to how plants grow and the importance of plants in our world. It takes two to three weeks depending on how long each day you choose to spend on this topic.
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How The Weather Affects Us
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Verbalize the water cycle Identify the four seasons and characteristics of each. Identifies that the sun is out during the day. Identifies and knows the sounds for the letters; W, R, S, C and U. Draws conclusions that the weather can change from day to day.
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