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Students take part in "Backward Day" at school. They wear their clothes backwards, do lessons in reverse order, etc.
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- 3rd - 5th Grade
Students explore the concept that to solve some problems, they may need to undo the key actions in the problem. This strategy is called working backwards asking the appropriate questions.
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- Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
Students explore the significance and meaning behind the celebration of Columbus Day. Through instructor lecture and demonstration, students identify some of the events and accomplishments associated Columbus's mission. Working in groups, students sing a song to help remember basic facts about Columbus.
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- 3rd - 5th Grade
Students engage in a lesson that focuses upon the Mexican Day Of The Dead and how it is celebrated. They conduct research using different resources and create a drawing depicting the holiday with a tombstone, decorations, and an appropriate background.
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- 1st Grade
Students explore patterns in counting by ones, twos, fives and tens. Using a calendar, they determine the number of days in a week, months in a year, and seasons. As a class, students count the number of school days. They use straws, bundled in groups of ten, to count by ten and play a game called, "I'm Thinking of a Number." Additional multisensory activities are included.
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- 1st Grade
Students drill and practice counting skills from 1 to 20. They count along with a puppet and when the puppet makes a mistake, the students correct it. In pairs, they connect cubes to make a train and count the number used. On the last day of the lesson, each student has a collection of 10 items. They roll the dice and pass that number of their objects to their partner.
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- Pre-K - Kindergarten Grade
Students learn about ducks. In this duck lesson, students examine the characteristics of ducks as they follow a teacher reading of "Five Little Ducks" on their computers. They use a Power Point to help them count backwards from five and begin a duck art project. They color an on-line duck picture and again sing the "Five Little Ducks."
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- 1st - 2nd Grade
Students participate in five teacher-led, whole class activities that explore sequences of time and the concept of faster and slower. They sequence school day events, create a book of their daily schedule, put the days of the week in correct order, listen to the story of the tortoise and the hare, and examine pictures of people of varying ages.
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- Kindergarten Grade
Students review the concepts of 100 in math class. They celebrate the 100th day of school and rotate between five stations in the class. They complete an exercise, edible, fingerprint and measuring station to celebrate 100. They share their experiences to end the lesson.
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- 1st - 2nd Grade
Students demonstrate their ability to successfully move and travel through the gymnasium using the directions of forward, backward, up, down, right, and left after the teacher describes each activity
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