Inventors and Explorers

People Smart Self Smart  Nature       Smart	New Year's	Resolutions	Writing	Workshop
Art Smart   Famous Americans Notebook	Famous Americans Historical Figures	Picture Labels	Back of Trading Cards	Lewis and Clark	Harriet Tubman
KWL Historical Figures	George Washington Carver	Benjamin Franklin	Theordore Roosevelt	Lewis and Clark	Timeline Letter
Lewis and Clark Lewis and Clark Poem Lewis and Clark Trading Cards	Lewis and Clark Activities	On-Line Readers		Map of Route	Canoe
Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Trading Cards		Glossary Terms	On-Line Readers		Timeline
Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Trading Cards		Facts Kite
George Washington Carver
Harriet Tubman		Newsletter	Timeline
Theordore Roosevelt
Word Smart Music Smart	Reading	Workshop	Spellingcity.com	Reading	Response
Number Smart Body Smart	Group	Problem	Solvers	100s Chart	Activities
	Bear Problem Solvers	Race to	One Hundred	Greater Than?	or    Less Than?
	Comparing Numbers	Base Ten Numbers	Roll to 100	100's Chart Pictures	Double Digit Adding
	Ways to Make 100	Dice Double Digit Adding	Skip Counting

Resources Georgia DOE S.S. Unit 4 - Inventors in the U.S. Georgia DOE S.S. Unit 5 - Community Helpers Georgia DOE ELA Unit 3 - Informational Georgia DOE ELA - 'How To' Georgia DOE ELA - Nonfiction Main Idea Georgia DOE ELA - Organize Nonfiction Books

Documents   Information Station  Parent Letter                     Body design from Teacher's Helper Nov/Dec/Jan 1998-99

United  Streaming Videos Benjamin Franklin: Scientist/Inventor Websites Benjamin Franklin

 Literature Connections

People Smart Self Smart	Build-a-Bug	Workshop
Word Smart	What Animals Say
				Stone Soup
Number Smart Body Smart		Animal Safari
Music Smart	Itsy Bitsy Spider Song Crawling Spider Song Baby Bumble Bee	Animal sounds S1P1c,d
Art Smart Nature Smart	Models of Bugs  S1CS4a	Butterfly Life Cycle	Research a Bug  S1CS7b  S1L1b,d

Literature Connection

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	Guided Reading Set O	Guided Reading Set I		Guided Reading Set J	Guided Reading Set K	Guided Reading Set L
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 Celebration of Learning  -

              Systematic Sequential Phonics and Macmillan Reading

Unit 4

1.      The Shopping List     

• Cause and Effect  
• Inflectional endings – s, es  
• was and were   
• Song and Poem Book – January Poems      
• Writing that compares      
• Read aloud We Go Together      
• SSP Lessons 76-80 (ou, ow)

Spelling – now  how  wow  owl  low  slow  snow  loud  cloud  could    

Challenge -  flower  shower  round  house  proud

Vocabulary- after  always  blue  were  who

Word Wall Words – now  slow  cloud  could  girl

2.      Yasmin’s Ducks     

• Cause and Effect      
• has and have      
• SSP Lessons 81-85 (wh, ew, oo)

Spelling – too  zoo  moon  when  where  new  chew  look  book  took      

Challenge -  bloom  choose  which  spoon  broom

Vocabulary- work  because  buy  found  some

Word Wall Words – too  new  look  when  zoo

Yasmin's Ducks Story Questions

3.     The Knee-High Man     

• Make inferences     
• Inflectional endings – er, est     
• Write a Photo Essay    
• SSP Lessons 86-90 (x, v, y ‘long e’, y ‘long i’ )

Spelling – my  dry  try  six  fix  next  over  ever  very  every      

Challenge -  exit  sly  sky  shy  crying 

Vocabulary- carry  been  clean  done  far

Word Wall Words – dry  six  over  very  are

The Knee-High Man Story Questions

4.     Johnny Appleseed     

• Making Inferences (The Other Side)     
• Tall Tales     
• SSP Lessons 91-95 (qu, c ‘s sound’, g ‘j sound’ )

Spelling – cent  center  circle  gym  giant  quit  quiet  question      

Challenge -  city  circus  page  sage  gigantic    

Vocabulary- how  light  little  live  pretty

Word Wall Words – gym  question  my  centers  before

Johnny Appleseed Story Questions

5.     Ring! Ring! Ring! Put Out the Fire!     

• Review – cause / effect, inferences, inflectional endings- s, es, er, est     
• SSP Lessons 96-100 (bl, br, pl, sl)

Spelling – blue  black  brown  play  plan  plane  sled  slid  glad + boy      

challenge -  brain  block  blade 

Vocabulary- always  clean  how  work  done

Word Wall Words – black  glad  boy  probably

Ring! Ring! Ring! Put Out the Fire! Story Questions

Unit 5

1.     Seven Sillies       

• Make predictions       
• Adjectives       
• Writing a story       
• SSP Lessons 101-105 (cl, gr, tr, th)

Spelling – grin  grind  green  clip  clap  their  they  then  tree  true      

Challenge -  growing  clapping  closet  thing  thump

Vocabulary- all  many  over  four  so

Word Wall Words – their  then  they  green  creatures

Seven Sillies Story Questions

2.    Shrinking Mouse       

• Adjectives that compare       
• Song and Poem Book – February Poems       
• SSP Lessons 106-110 (dr, sn, fl, sp)

Spelling – sneak  snake  flake  fly  spin  drip  drop + want not do      

Challenge -  floating  spend  snowing  dream  drink

Vocabulary-  before  our  come  off  right

Word Wall Words – snake  want  not  but  do

Shrinking Mouse Story Questions

3.    You Can’t Smell a Flower with Your EAR!      

• Draw conclusions      
• Context clues       
• Color words   
• SSP Lessons 111-115 (sc, fr, st, sw)

Spelling – scar  scare  star  stare  sweet  fry  fried were  you  your          

Challenge -  stick  fright  scale  frozen  swing  

Vocabulary- from  walked  brother  sister  mother

Word Wall Words – scare  sweater  were  you  your

You Can't Smell a Flower with Your EAR! Story Questions