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PBS Kids Go Buster Riding the Wave/Buster's Lucky Year Lesson PlanPBS Kids Go Buster Riding the Wave/Buster's Lucky Year Lesson Plan
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PBS Kids Go Buster Riding the Wave/Buster's Lucky Year

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Second graders visit Cocoa Beach, Florida and San Francisco, California in these two episodes of Buster. They sing a song along with video and complete a game on the associated game board as they look at cultural celebration in San Francisco. They make a beach scene and write beach words on a web chart. They arrange sentence strips into the proper sequence to make a surfboard.

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surfing, california, florida, san francisco

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california, cocoa beach, florida, san francisco, surfing, english language arts
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