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Down on the Farm: Challenge Activities (Theme 8) Unit PlanDown on the Farm: Challenge Activities (Theme 8) Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Down on the Farm: Challenge Activities (Theme 8)

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Down on the Farm is the theme of this series of challenge activities. Extend your scholars' learning experience with engaging activities such as designing a farm, creating collages, writing poems and to-do lists, and playing dominoes.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the kitchen, cutting skills, short answer questions, poetry writing

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the Internet to search and/or display kitchen and farm pictures

Classroom Considerations

  • Although this unit is designed to accompany Houghton Mifflin's ELA curriculum, it may be used on its own or with another curriculum of similar subject matter. 

Pros

  • Support for English language learners is provided 

Cons

  • The literature referenced is not included, making some activities difficult to complete unless they are modified 

Common Core

W.K.2 W.K.8 SL.K.4 SL.K.5 SL.K.6 L.K.2.d L.K.5.a

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