Race to the White House!

Objective:

Students will be able to identify the Presidents and when they were in presidency.

Students will scan the three QR codes in order to interact with the bulletin board and it's many features. Students will be able to measure themselves on the large ruler in comparison to multiple Presidents' heights.

Standard:

5.1.17 Explain why the first American political parties developed and analyze the impact political parties had on early presidential elections.

Description:

 After scanning the QR code provided and watching the So You Want to be President? read aloud, students will explore the race to the White House track. One QR code is connected to a Presidents song that lists all the Presidents names in order of their reigning. Next, students will be able to complete a Sporcle trivia game of guessing all the Presidents by name, in order. Finally, students will measure themselves against the large ruler and determine how the measure up to our past Presidents.

Materials:

• Green, black, yellow paper
• Letter cut out in red, white and blue
• QR codes
• President names and years in office
• Presidents heights
• Fun facts about Presidents
• President pictures
• 6'4" yellow paper ruler

Exemplary Literature:

Read Aloud Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqpAO5WAy4

The Future of Us

http://gracelileliterature.weebly.com

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

http://part-timeindianmagazine.weebly.com/

Our Cool Friends

Our Cool Friends

Objective: 

Students will be able to explore what Emperor penguins eat as well as their habitat. Students will get a fish shaped worksheet out of the red back pack to work on as the interact with the bulletin board. Students will also be given the opportunity to explore various types of penguins including African penguins.

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After exploring Emperor penguins' habitat and diet through interacting with the bulletin board, students will make observations on a worksheet.   

Standard:

1.LS.3 Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats

Description: 

 After scanning the QR code provided and watching the One Cool Friend read aloud, students will explore four different types of penguins located on the pole. One of the penguins has a QR code with a live stream to watch African penguins. Next, students will be able to identify the food emperor penguins eat using the continuity tester. Finally, students will take a fish worksheet out of the backpack and choose the appropriate climate and meal for the emperor penguin.

Materials:

• Cotton balls
• Fishing line
• QR codes
• Boxes
• White, red, blue, black, yellow paper
• folder 
• foil
• Continuity Tester (Light up pen)

Exemplary Literature:

Read Aloud Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXK9xbWkSM 

QR Code for Read Aloud:

Mama Where are you from?

(Social Studies Integration)

Objective: After the students read the book Mama Where are you from? students will be able to compare where they are from to where their family is from. 

Standard: 1.1.1 Compare the ways individuals in the community lived in the past with the way they live in the present

Description: The main focus of this board is to build communication between the student and their family. We want the students to describe how they live in the way Mama did  on a cut out that looks like clothes. Then they need to take a postcard home and bring it back filled out with where their parents/ adults are from. When there are several clothes and postcards students will be able to look at the clothes cutouts as a whole and the postcards as a whole and look for similarities and difference between the people of different generations. 

Material:
- Construction Paper 
- Cutouts for the clothes, little house in background, stars, letters and trees
- Coloring pencils, markers pens and pencils for writing and adding detail
- Scissors for cut out clothes and bigger house
- Roll paper for background and big clothes line rod
- Twin for clothesline and hanging the stars
- Clothespins

Exemplary Literature:


Read Aloud Video Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61NI_IEWh1Y

Read Aloud QR Code:

Music Isn't Scary!

Objective: After hearing specific sounds and beats in a read aloud book, students will listen to the book again and follow along by making the correct sound along with the correct beat.

Standard: 2.4.3 Arrange and perform a short sound piece cooperatively in small groups using the voice, body percussion, found items, or classroom instruments.

Description: After listening to the read aloud The Little Old Woman Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams, students will participate in the hands-on activities at the learning station. In the read aloud, students will get to hear how different instruments are used to make different sounds. They will learn that instruments can be made by using different parts of the body or they can be man-made. The students will have the opportunity to make their own egg shaker instruments. They can use these, their own body, and the other instruments provided to make music. Their are multiple QR codes that allow students to listen to various beats made by the given instruments. Students can identify the different instruments and play back the beats on their own. They also will get to make up their own song with different beats from different instruments and then record it in the hollow tree on their IPads. They also will get to explore provided literature about music and how they can see and make it in the world around them. Through these activities, students will feel more comfortable with music in general and not be afraid to get out and experience it on their own. 

Materials: 

Tree: Long sheets of colored paper, leaf cutouts, staples, tape

Music notes: Music note cutouts, tape, staples

Bins: Sturdy storage bins, command strips

Background: Sheets of construction paper, printed pictures

Egg Shakers: Plastic Easter eggs, rice, tape

Clappers: Metal bottlecaps, cardboard

Pan Clinker: Egg pan, paper clips, string, tape

Rubber Band Guitar: Kleenex box, rubber bands

Wood blocks: Wooden block, wooden rod

Steps Leading to Hollow Tree: Footstep cutouts, rubber cement

IPad recording station: We had a "hollow tree." This can be any other creative area near the learning station. 

Exemplary Literature:

QR Code For Read Aloud:

"One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab" by April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre

Objective: 2.CA.1 Add and subtract fluently within 100.

Objective: After reading "One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab", students will practice adding and subtracting using the materials provided on the interactive bulletin board.

Description: The main focus of this board is to practice addition and subtraction. In the bucket is a white board marker as well as velcro pictures that have different amounts of feet on them. They will use the images from the bucket to make combinations to represent the number written on the pink slip of paper above the towels. The towels represent the workspace with spots to put their pictures on. The students can use this in many ways to practice addition and subtraction, or for higher groups, multiplication. This board is designed for multiple students to work at it at a time with a partner.

Materials:

• "One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab"
• Blue, orange, green, brown paper
• 2 hand towels
• Velcro
• White board marker
• Print out of feet pictures represented throughout the children's literature 
• Styrofoam for coconuts on the palm tree.
• Laminated paper for above the towels (to write total on)
• Getting Our Feet Wet Title

Exemplary Literature: "One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab"

Read Aloud Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86uvfuhB1sY

Read Aloud QR Code