| New Year's Unit |
Sneak Peek at the Week:
Countdown to Party Time!
Black-Eyed Peas & Cornbread
Resolutions for the new year
Countdown to Party Time!
Black-Eyed Peas & Cornbread
Resolutions for the new year
Journal Topics:
*On New Year's Eve, I...
*This year, I what to learn to...
*Draw a party scene.
*For good luck, I eat...
*On New Year's Eve, I...
*This year, I what to learn to...
*Draw a party scene.
*For good luck, I eat...
Center Ideas:
fine motor center: perforate 2001
home: add (dried) black-eyed peas and party hats
art: make a "party collage" using streamers, confetti, glitter,
tinsel, etc. on
a black background (later attach their writing prompts- "My New
Year's Resolution is...").
writing: "My New Year's Resolution is..."
fine motor center: perforate 2001
home: add (dried) black-eyed peas and party hats
art: make a "party collage" using streamers, confetti, glitter,
tinsel, etc. on
a black background (later attach their writing prompts- "My New
Year's Resolution is...").
writing: "My New Year's Resolution is..."
Literature:
When This Box Is Full by Patricia Lillie
*After reading this book about the months, we discuss the
important things we might put in our boxes each month and why
they would belong there.
Each student is given a book titled "A Month For Everything" listing
each month on a separate page. They are also given a page of
clipart pictures (baby New Year, a heart, a leprechaun, an Easter
egg, flowers, boy making sand castles at the beach, firecrackers, a
school bus, apples, a pumpkin, a Thanksgiving scene, and a reindeer).
Students will add the appropriate picture to each page. Some
students will be able to write captions for each page as well.
Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak
*The classes are pretty familiar with this book since we sing it
every morning. (Beginning in August, we sing and "dance" the
current month's poem as part of calendar.) It's fun discussing what
we would do each month... instead of what Maurice Sendak wrote...
and then making up a poem to sing.
A Child's Year by Joan Walsh Anglund
*We compare these month descriptions to the other books we've
read.
Happiness Is Twelve Months Long by Joan Wade Cole
*After reading this book, studenta complete/illustrate the sentence
"January is ..." .
When This Box Is Full by Patricia Lillie
*After reading this book about the months, we discuss the
important things we might put in our boxes each month and why
they would belong there.
Each student is given a book titled "A Month For Everything" listing
each month on a separate page. They are also given a page of
clipart pictures (baby New Year, a heart, a leprechaun, an Easter
egg, flowers, boy making sand castles at the beach, firecrackers, a
school bus, apples, a pumpkin, a Thanksgiving scene, and a reindeer).
Students will add the appropriate picture to each page. Some
students will be able to write captions for each page as well.
Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak
*The classes are pretty familiar with this book since we sing it
every morning. (Beginning in August, we sing and "dance" the
current month's poem as part of calendar.) It's fun discussing what
we would do each month... instead of what Maurice Sendak wrote...
and then making up a poem to sing.
A Child's Year by Joan Walsh Anglund
*We compare these month descriptions to the other books we've
read.
Happiness Is Twelve Months Long by Joan Wade Cole
*After reading this book, studenta complete/illustrate the sentence
"January is ..." .
Math/Graphs:
*With 100's day approaching, we decide how we'll reach our goal of
collecting 100 cans of food to donate to a local charity. We line up
the cans in the hallway, numbering them on the top with a sharpie
to keep track of our goal!
*We do a yes/no graph to "Do you like black-eyed peas?"
*We pattern leftover metallic party confetti.
*We estimate black-eyed peas (dried, of course!).
*With 100's day approaching, we decide how we'll reach our goal of
collecting 100 cans of food to donate to a local charity. We line up
the cans in the hallway, numbering them on the top with a sharpie
to keep track of our goal!
*We do a yes/no graph to "Do you like black-eyed peas?"
*We pattern leftover metallic party confetti.
*We estimate black-eyed peas (dried, of course!).
Science/Social Studies:
*We discuss different New Year's traditions: having parties,
counting down the last 10 seconds of a year, eating "good luck"
foods on New Year's Day, singing "Auld Lang Syne," blowing horns,
etc. Then, of course, we have a party counting down the last 10
seconds, blowing horns, throwing streamers and confetti, singing
"Auld Lang Syne," and then sitting down to a cup of black-eyed peas
with cornbread!
*Before the festivities, we discuss the terms "Baby New Year" and
"Old Father Time". Students make Baby New Year hats to wear to
the party.
*We discuss different New Year's traditions: having parties,
counting down the last 10 seconds of a year, eating "good luck"
foods on New Year's Day, singing "Auld Lang Syne," blowing horns,
etc. Then, of course, we have a party counting down the last 10
seconds, blowing horns, throwing streamers and confetti, singing
"Auld Lang Syne," and then sitting down to a cup of black-eyed peas
with cornbread!
*Before the festivities, we discuss the terms "Baby New Year" and
"Old Father Time". Students make Baby New Year hats to wear to
the party.