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Lesson Plans for February 2012

The lesson plans for February 2012 focus on teaching students the fundamentals of measurement, particularly in relation to math. The unit centers on understanding and applying measurement techniques to various objects, such as fish lengths and animal jumps.

Lesson Plans for February 2012

Lesson Plans for February 2012

Science

Balance and Motion

Week: February 6th-10th

Foss Kit: Investigation 1 Balance: Part 1- 2

Students discover many ways to balance two dimensional shapes made out of tagboard

*Objects can be balanced in many ways

*A stable position is one that is steady; the objects is not falling over

*Counterwieghts can help balance an object

Student will observe balanced objects and observe stable balanced systems

Week: February 13th-17th

Investigation 1 Balance: Parts 3 and 4

Students will use a piece of pliable wire and counterweights (clothespins) to make a pencil balance on its point. They will make mobiles from paperclips, rubberbands, straws, and index cards to apply their understanding of balance, stability, and counterweighting.

* A mobile is a system of balance beams, and objects

Student will observe, compare, organize, and communicate observations of balance and stability, using precise vocabulary.

Science Lab

Math

Learning to Measure and Measuring Distances

Unit 5: Fish Lengths and Animal Jumps- Measurement


Time


Computer Games
Brain Pop- Place Value
Shark Numbers
Place the Penguins

Week: February 6th-10th

Activity 1: Finish Time book (tell time to the half hour)

Activity 2: Five in a Row Subtraction

Activity 3: IXL (differentiated for each student)

Activity 4: Fast Math- in computer lab (differentiated for each student)

Week: February 13th-17th

Activity 1: Measuring Keepers (student workbook pg. 6)

Activity 2: itouches- Zoom (numberline, place value)

Activity 3: Computers (Subtraction Games)

Activity 4: Fast Math- in computer lab (differentiated for each student)

Week: February 21st- 24th

Activity 1: Investigation 1 Assessment, Explore Manipulatives

Activity 2: itouches/ipad

Activity 3: Computers

Activity 4: Subtraction Story Problem, Balancing Activities

Number Talks

Week: February 6th-10th

24+26=

19+20=

Week: February 13th-17th

10-7= 10-3=

8-4=

Measuring

Week: February 6th-10th

Monday and Tuesday: Unit 5: Investigation 1.1 Cube Towers and Measuring Collections- Understanding what length is and how it can be measured, identifying the longest dimension of an object, discribing measurement of objects that are in between whole numbers of units, understanding that measurements of the same lengths should be the same when they are measured twice or by different people using the same unit

*Extension- student workbook pg 1

Wednesday and Thursday: Unit 5: Investigation 1.2 Measuring with Cubes, Tiles, or Paperclips- measuring lengths with different size units, developing accurate measurement techniques, understanding that measuring an object using different length units will result in different measurements

*Extension- student workbook pg 3 and 4

Week: February 13th-17th

Monday and Wednesday: Unit 5: Investigation 1.3 Measuring Fish- identifying contexts in which measurement is used, using inch tiles to measure objects in inches, developing accuracte measurement techniques, understanding the meaning of at least in the context of linear measurement

*Extension- student workbook pg 5 (in small groups)

**Tuesday we will be doing Valentines Day activities

Thursday: Unit 5: Investigation 1.4 Fish Stories- solving problems about comparing lengths

*Extension- student workbook pg 11 and 12

Friday: Unit 5: Investigation 1.6 Assessment: How Long Is This Fish?

Week: February 21st-24th

Tuesday- Unit 5, Investigation 2.1 Measuring with Kid Steps- Measuring length by iterating a single unit, measuring lengths using different sized units, and comparing length to determine which is longer

*Extension- student workbook pg. 16-17

Wednesday- Unit 5, Investigation 2.2 and 2.3 Measuring with Different Units- Developing accurate measurment techniques, understanding that measuring an object using different length units will result in different measurments

*Extension- student workbook pg. 21 and 23

Thursday- Unit 5, Investigation 2.4 Measuring Jumps- developing accurate measurment techniques and solving problems about comparing lengths

*Extension- student workbook pg. 25 and 26

Friday- Unit 5, Investigation 2.4 Continued with Sub

*Extension- student workbook pg. 27-28

Social Studies

Literacy

Making Meaning – Finish up visualizing lessons

Being a Writer - Unit 5; Writing Non-fiction

Author Studies – Dr. Seuss

Phonics- Consonant Blends and R Controlled Vowels

Spelling

Being A Writer

Week: February 6th-10th

Monday: Present glogster research projects

Tuesday: BAW Unit 5: Week 1: Day 2, Student write facts about themselves

Wednesday: Continued- Play the Who Am I? game

Thursday: BAW Unit 5, Week 1, Day 3: Generarte a list of facts about the class in complete sentences

Friday: BAW Unit 5, Week 1, Day 4: Generate a list of facts about our school in complete sentences, Observation walk

**Did not finish last weeks writing lessons for the week of Feb. 6th-10th

Week: February 13th-17th

Finish lessons from previous week

Week: February 21st- 24th

Create your own Dr. Seuss inspired character and write your own story about that character.

Finish Storybird fictional story

Author Study

Week: February 6th-10th

Monday- Book Browse

*Computer Lab- explore seussville.com

Tuesday- Biography, Read Oh the Places You'll Go

Wednesday- Read The Cat in the Hat

Thursday- Read The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

Friday- Dr. Seuss timeline on seussville.com

Week: February 13th-17th

Monday- Read And To Think That I saw It On Mulberry Street

Tuesday- Valentines Day Fun!

Wednesday- Read Horton Hears a Who, Watch the 1970's video clip of the cartoon on seussville.com

Thursday- Read Horton Hatches the Egg, Watch the 1942 video clip of the cartoon on seussville.com

Friday- Watch Horton Hears a Who

Week: February 21st-24th

Tuesday- Read Hop on Pop and If I Ran the Zoo

Wednesday- Read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose

Thursday- Read Bartholomew and the Oobleck and The Foot Book, Extension: Make oobleck

Friday- Read There's A Wocket in my Pocket and Oh Say Can You Say?

Week: February 27th-March 2nd

Monday- Read Oh the Thinks You Can Think and I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

Tuesday- Read Ten Apples Up on Top and Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?

Wednesday- Read Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! and Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

Thursday- Read Yurtle The Turtle and Other Stories

Friday- Read Green Eggs and Ham and The Lorax, Extension: make green eggs and ham and watch Green Eggs and Ham, watch The Lorax on suessville.com

Workshop

Week: February 6th-10th

Activity 1: Computer- Raz Kids (Individually differentiated reading levels)

Activity 2: Weekly Reader- Black History Month

Activity 3: Read Around the Room (partner read)- Dr. Seuss books

Activity 4: School Library (interest books)

Activity 5: Word Study/Spelling- find and list words that have the dame word pattern (blends, word families, diagraphs, etc)

Activity 6: itouches/ipad- word games

Activity 7: Spelling- Shaving Cream Words

Week: February 13th-17th

Activity 1: Computer- Suessville.com

Activity 2: Weekly Reader- Presidents Day

Activity 3: Read Around the Room (partner read)- Dr. Seuss books

Activity 4: School Library (interest books)

Activity 5: Word Study/Spelling- Blends

Activity 6: itouches/ipad- word games

Activity 7: Writing- Create your own Dr. Seuss inspired Character

Week: February 21st- 24th

Activity 1: Computer- Storybird or RazKids

Activity 2: Weekly Reader- Where Do I Live?

Activity 3: Read Around the Room (partner read)

Activity 4: School Library (interest books)

Activity 5: Word Study- Cat in the Hat -at words

Activity 6: itouches/ipad- word games

Activity 7: Writing- Create your own Dr. Seuss inspired Character and write your own story

Phonics

Week: February 6th-10th

Consonant S Blends (st, sc, sk, sp, sn, sm, str)

Week: February 13-17

R Controlled Vowels (ar, ir, er, ur)

Week: February 21st- March 2nd

Base Words and Inflected Endings (ed, ing, est, er, es, s)

Making Meaning

Week: February 6th-10th

Monday: Student Books- pg 7 How I Pictured My Favorite Book

Tuesday: Students share with the class

**Take a break from MM until March, when we pick with Unit 5: Exploring Fiction