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Composting
Learners discover the concept of decomposition. They examine how it makes the soil more fertile and how it helps plants. They put a compost bin in their backyard and record their observations.
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LIONS and TIGERS and BEARS. . .Oh My! Animals of Connecticut and the World
Young scholars identify and list the different types of pets owned by the children in the class.
They graph the total number of each type of pet owned. They draw or cut-out a picture of an animal. Using the materials listed above, the...
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Mammals
Pupils examine the characteristics of mammals through video clips, and slide shows. Lesson includes clips of fastest land animal, biggest mammal, loudest mammal and tallest animal.
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Firework safety
Students discuss the topic of, "should fireworks be banned," and as a group respond to the comments posted by kids on the Newsround website. They work in groups to design a safety campaign that will educate students in the year below.
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Pigs Don't Wear Pants
Students engage in the writing process and differentiate between what is real versus fantasy. They identify the rhyming words and follow the steps of writing to complete the page for the class book. The prompt is checked looking for...
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Pilkey Author Study
Third graders read and hear stories by the author, Dav Pilkey and research the list of books written by this author. They become illustrators to the novel "Captain Underpants: An Epic Novel," then they create a timeline of their lives...
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Ready and Action! Reading Time!
Learners work to improve their reading fluency and oral expression while reading aloud. With a partner, they read sentence strips and reread them to make the sentence more fluent and meaningful. They 'perform' their sentences for the...
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Zooming into Fluency
Learners read and reread decodable words in connected text. In this language arts lesson, students focus on improving their fluency to help them gain more meaning from the text. The story focused on is Arthur's Loose Tooth.
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Perfectly Popping
Students identify p in spoken words and the written letter the represents it. The story, Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss is read the the class. They then have to circle pictures that have the p sound in them. This assessment is done after...
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The Doctor Said Open Up and Say /o/
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter O. Students then listen to the book "In the Big Top," and write down the words from the...
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"Arrrrr" said the Pirate
Students practice decoding r-controlled vowels. Through various activities, they identify the change made to a vowel sound by adding "r." They decode words and spell them using Elkonin boxes. To conclude the lesson, students identify...
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Happy Birthday or Boring Birthday?
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with more expression. They observe a demonstration of wishing happy birthday with and without expression, and in pairs demonstrate reading with expression using the...
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To Be Or Not To Be: Reading With Expression
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carrol with and without expression, and discuss the differences. In small groups they...
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Sweet Potato Pie Goes Fast
Students practice their reading fluency by covering up parts of words in order to identify word they do not know, and by completing repeated readings. They read "Sweet Potato Pie" with a reading partner who times them and records the...
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Doctor : Open Wide And Say /o/
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter O. Students listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short /o/...
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Picture This
Pupils examine how to create mental images to help them comprehend what they read. They discuss what it means to visualize and they draw a mental picture of what they read. Students draw a picture of what they see in their minds while...
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Visualize It, Understand It, Remember It!
Students observe and demonstrate visualization exercises to improve their reading comprehension. They discuss how to visualize images, then draw pictures for sentences written on the board. Students read the poem Gumeye Ball by Shel...
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Idiom Games
Students identify idioms as groups of words with special meanings that paint a mental picture for the reader.They compete in a game in which they draw and interpret pictures of idioms.
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Can You Beat Jet Lag?
Learners examine the health condition of jet lag. Using mealworms, they test the effect of light on the development of them into adults. They answer discussion questions and examine the relationship of age and one's activity level.
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Lightning Speed Reading
Students focus on improving their reading fluency. They discuss what it means to be a fluent reader and practice repeated readings with a short story. They work in partners and take turns timing one another for one minute reads.
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Figurative Language 2
Students read nursery rhymes and advertisements to identify examples of figurative language. As a class, students discuss the use of figurative language and its effectiveness in advertising, children's books, rhymes, poetry, etc. ...
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Correlative Conjunctions
Students identify correlative conjunctions in sentences and then rewrite pairs of sentences as a single sentence with correlative conjunctions. They practice diagramming sentences of various sentence patterns and then write a personal...
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B B BEE!!
Students recognize phonemes in spoken words and match letters to phonemes. They focus on the letter /b/ and the meaningful representation of the /b/. They read 'The Honeybee and the Robber' by Eric Carle and hold up their bees when...
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Scales, Scutes, and Skins
Young scholars identify the various adaptations of reptiles and amphibians. After distinguishing between reptiles and amphibians, students discuss the ways in which their adaptations aid in their survival. They participate in a hands on...
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