RESILIENCE

First graders view a clip of Pooh and his friends encountering obstacles like losing their letter to Santa. They disucss the problem and ask students to predict what happen next, and they briefly summarize the story line.

There's no doubt the city described in the story, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, has incredible weather, but looking at the town as a whole, how does it compare to a real-life town? Listen carefully and view the...

Kids are asked how an Indian mandala was made. They devise a hypothesis and then use colored sand to test if their guesses were correct. They document the experience, examine a mandala, and write a comparative piece about the differences...

Students write sentences. In this noun and verb identification lesson, students review the definition of a noun and verb, locate them in various pictures and use them correctly in a sentence.

Students create a circular, sequential graphic organizer for the story "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," by Laura Joffe Numeroff. They write their own circle stories.

Learners create an original class cinquain poem and describe characteristics of a worm such as: how they feel, what they look like etc.

Students explore the traits of worms. In this cinquain poetry lesson, students use their senses to describe worms. Students then follow the prescribed format to write cinquain poetry about worms.

Students practice their counting skills. In this counting skillslesson, students listen to Chicka Chicka 123 by Bill Martin, Jr. and participate in activities that require them to count by 10's.

Students identify things that they are thankful for during Thanksgiving. In this Thanksgiving lesson, students read the book, Thanks for Thanksgiving and create a "thankful place mat."

Welcome to my second thematic unit publication on the Internet. It is for the love of fiction (and the making of history less boring for children) that I have constructed this thematic unit on Benjamin Franklin's life as told