Title: OPENING ACTIVITY
1OPENING ACTIVITY
Wake up your brain by having some fun with the
teasers below!
Big Bird
Excuse me.
Repeat after me.
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3Paper Plate Appreciations
- Place the paper plate around your neck and on
your back. - Walk around the classroom as music plays.
- Freeze when the music stops.
- Write an appreciation on the paper plate to the
person standing closest to you. - Repeat the process until time is called.
- Read your appreciations and fill your bucket!
You work well with everyone in class!
Joe
4Appreciation Examples
- It has been fun working with you in our learning
club this week! - You have a way of making everyone around you
happy. - Your attitude towards learning is always so
positive. - You shared lots of good ideas with me this week.
- Thank you for being so caring when I needed a
band aid yesterday. - Being in a learning club with you was a great way
for us to get to know each other better. - You are such a visual-spatial learner! The
pictures you drew this week are amazing!
5Jet Delivers Books to Kids Overseas
An airplane with more than 100,000 special
passengers recently flew from Seattle,
Washington, to China. The passengers aboard the
flight were not people. They were brand new
________ for children. An organization called
Room to Read planned this special trip. Room to
Read collects books and other school supplies for
children who have little money to buy them. Some
of the books are written in English and others
are written in the childrens native languages.
Room to Read also builds schools and libraries.
Since the year 2000, Room to Read has donated
more than ______________ books, built almost 300
schools, and opened 5,000 libraries. To help pay
for books and new schools and libraries, Room to
Read has a special program called Students
Helping Students. Kids in the U.S. and other
countries raise money for Room to Read. Some of
the money students raise is used to pay authors
and artists in other countries to write and
illustrate books for children in those
countries. Room to Read was started in 2000 by
John Wood. When Wood was on a backpacking trip
to Nepal in 1998, he learned that many rural
schools there had few books. Wood knew it would
be very difficult for those students to escape
poverty if they could not read. Today, Room to
Read helps kids learn to read in Nepal, India,
Vietnam, South Africa, and many other countries.
books
3 million
6OUR DAILY AFFIRMATION Yesterday is
history,Tomorrow is mystery,Today is a
gift,That's why we call it the present.I am
braver than I believe,I am stronger than I
seem.I am smarter than I think.Everything I do
matters.I am heard, understood, and
acknowledged.HUA!
7Conceptual Key Point for the Component Survival
is the natural process of living or continuing
to live longer than another person, animal, or
thing. Living things have physical
characteristics that allow them to survive.
They use these characteristics to meet their
basic needs for food, water, air, protection,
shelter, and reproduction.
8Friendly Letter to Nichole and Seth
9Choice Inquiry Procedure
- Read each inquiry with the class.
- Think about the inquiry you are most interested
in creating. - Choose that inquiry.
- Work quietly and use time wisely.
- Be prepared to share when you hear the rainstick.
10CHOICE 1
- Design a Power Point presentation that
demonstrates what you have learned this week as
teachers. Include the following topics Town
Hall, Survival, Food Chain, Outdoor Education
Garden connections and any other topics you would
like to address. Add graphics, sounds, and
animations to your presentation. Present when
time is called.
11CHOICE 2
- Create a tri-fold brochure to share how your
students can use what you have learned in their
own classrooms next year. Include ideas about
Town Hall, being a bucket filler, using
Australia, and any other ideas you may have.
Present your brochure.
12CHOICE 3
- Create a Public Service Announcement for the
local PBS station to inform the community with
crucial information about being more responsible
in understanding the importance of creating
outdoor education gardens at schools. Include a
definition of survival and what we can do to make
a difference. Video the PSA and share with
others.
13CHOICE 4
- Write a letter to the editor for the local
newspaper and explain the information learned
during the week. Revise and edit with a learning
buddy. Write a final copy to send to the editor.
14CHOICE 5
- Create a song or rap that teaches others about
any of our plant content from the week. Include
AT LEAST 5 important ideas in your song/rap.
Record the words on a power point slide. Perform
the composition live for the class.
15CHOICE 6
Write an acrostic using one of the
following FOOD CHAIN SURVIVAL Edit and revise
with a learning buddy. Copy your acrostic onto a
large sheet of construction paper. Illustrate.
Practice reading your poem to an audience. Share
with the class.
16Celebrations of Learning Procedures
- Sit on the carpet with the class.
- Share your inquiry with the audience.
- Use active listening when others are sharing.
- Give appreciations.