Hi everyone! I'm so sorry for missing the last two weeks. We had a horrible hurricane and I couldn't post my lesson outlines. The good news is that I'm back, and I may say this all the time, but next week is going to be so much fun!! I'm a huge proponent of engaging lessons that meet the student's needs while helping them to grow as learners. I'm also a sucker for thematic lesson plans and next week is a must for my students - Apple Week. Don't you find great joy in teaching fun topics?
Before we start talking shared reading, let me tell you about a couple of activities that we'll be doing. We will be sampling yummy crockpot applesauce. Of course I don't have the time to make it from scratch so I use jarred applesauce and warm it before the students arrive. They have never figured it out and I hope you don't tell them! We'll sample different varieties of apples and graph our favorites. We'll sample some apple candy and for incentives I'll pass out Apple Jacks. We'll also have a basket full of fun apple books.
The standard that we will be learning is a little more challenging than others, but still very engaging and interesting to students. We'll be taking a look at how events can connect through history and science. In order to do this, we'll look at John Chapman's life. The students will determine what each event causes later in John's lifetime. For example, it is believed that many apple orchards exist because of John's work. Without his travels we would not have had so many crabapples. We'll also be taking a look at how apples can add nutrition to our diets, the pollination process and the apple lifecycle. Just think of a time line and lifecycle wheel.
I am super excited to give my students independent workstation materials that couple so well with our shared reading and writing. These centers will center around the five core components of reading: phonics, phonemes, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. I've spent a lot of time trying to create materials that work for each student, are engaging, purposeful and self explanatory. Thank goodness I finally figured it out. Click on the image below to find the unit.
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