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Strand: Respect for Self

Topic: Respect for Self

Standard: Accountability: responsibility for one's actions and their consequences.
13.1 Commitment: being emotionally, physically or intellectually bound to something.
13.2 Perseverance and diligence: adherence to actions and their consequences.
13.3 Self control and virtue: exercising authority over one's emotions and actions.
13.4 Frugality: effective use of resources; thrift.

Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing

Standard: Uses voice and speech to express thought, feeling, and role.

SS3G1 The student will locate major topographical features of the U.S.

MKM1 A.Students will group objects according to comon properties such as color, shape, texture, or number.

Topic: Awareness of the importance of growth and change.

Standard: Identify personal feelings.
Identify ways to express feelings.
Identify causes of stress.
Identify and select appropriate behavior to deal with specific emotional situations.
Demonstrate healthy ways of dealing with conflicts, stress, and emotions in self and others.
Demonstrate knowledge of good health habits.

ELA2W1 B The student demonstrates competency in wth writing process. The student uses traditional organizational patterns for conveying information.

Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing

Standard: Demonstrates behaviors needed to participate in drama activities.

Strand: ESOL Beginning

Topic: Reading/Writing

Standard: Identifies letters of the alphabet out of sequence.

ELA2R4 F. The student uses a varitey of strategies to gain meaning from grade level text. The student distinguishes fact from fiction in a text.

ELAKR6 F.The student gains meaning from orally presented test. The student uses prior knowledge, graphic features, and graphic organizers to understand text.

Topic: Citizenship

Standard: Justice: equal and impartial treatment under the law.

S1L1 A.Students will investigate the characteristics and basic needs of plants and animals.

SKL2 D.Students will compare the similarities and differences in groups of organisms.

SSKE1The student will describe work that people do.

S2P2 A.Students will identify sources of energy and how the energy is used.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Interest/AR Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry	Molly Bang	1.4	Draw a picture of yourself when you are angry. Grade K- Character Ed. Respect for Self 13.3	Sophie gets angry and goes to her favorite place to cry, and then she feels better.
	Realistic Fiction	No, David!	David Shannon	PK-1	Act out favorite scenes from the book. Grade K- Fine Arts Theater Arts 7	David always gets in trouble but his mother loves him no matter what.
	Modern Fantasy	The Garden of Abdul Gasazi	Chris van Allburg	2-5	Make you own hat like Alan's.	Alan lost his neighbor's dog and Mr. Gasazi turned him into a duck.
	Modern Fantasy	Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	1-3	Students will make a monster mask out of construction paper.	Max was sent to his room and went to where the wild things are and became their King.
	Modern Fantasy	Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters	John Steptoe	4.3	Make a crown out of foam paper and decorate.	Two sisters wanted to marry the King but the kind sister won his heart.
	Realistic Fiction	Grandfather's Journey	Allen Say	3.6	Have student draw country of Japan or state of California. SS3G1	Japanese man moved to CA. but moved back to Japan when he got older.
	Animal Fantasy	The Three Pigs	David Weisner	2.3	Make house out of cardboard and decorate.	The three pigs save animals from other stories.
	Animal Fantasy	Inch by Inch	Leo Lionni	1.8	Make inchworm and use him to measure classroom items. MKM1 A.	The inchworm got away from the birds that were trying to eat him.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Interest/AR Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical Fiction	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	4.5	Make a quilt with important things that happened in the book.	Ann Marie saved her best friend and her family from the German soldiers.
	Historical Fiction	Sarah, Plain and Tall	Patricia MacLachlan	3.4	Oprah Show: One student will be Oprah and the others will be the family and tell what happened.	Sarah comes to live with a family whose mother died.
	Realistic Fiction	Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson	4.6	Make an open- mind portrait of Jess and write his feelings on the back. Grade K- Guidance Self Knowledge Topic 3	Jess and Leslie are best friends, then tragedy occurs.
	Realistic Fiction	Jacob Have I Loved	Katherine Paterson	5.7	Make a collage of significant details of the story.	Louise has always felt that her twin sister is better than she is.
	Historical Fiction	A Year Down Yonder	Richard Peck	4.5	Make a museum of life during the Depression.	Mary Alice moves in with her grandmother for a year and learns to appreciate her.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Interest/AR Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Animal Fantasy	Verdi	Jannelle Cannon	3.4	Make a green or yellow snake out of play dough.	Verdi doesn't want to grow up to be boring and green.
	Modern Fantasy	No Jumping on the Bed	Tedd Arnold	1-3	Make your own blanket out of felt and fabric.	Walter's bed fell through the ceiling and fell through everyone's apartment until he reached the basement.
	Animal Fantasy	If You Give A Mouse a Cookie	by Laura Joffe Numeroff ill. by Felicia Bond	2.7	Have students list things in chronological order that they would want after eating a cookie. ELA2W1 B.	The mouse wants all these things after he gets a cookie.
	Modern Fantasy	Miss Nelson Is Missing!	by Harry Allard ill. by James Marshall	2.7	Have students act out the behavior of the children in the story. Grade K- Fine Arts Theater Arts 2	Students act up in class until they get a really horrible substitute.
	Modern Fantasy	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	by Judy Barrett ill. by Ron Barret	2-4	Have students make spaghetti with white yarn and colored cotton balls for meatballs.	All of the food falls from the sky for each meal of the day.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Interest/AR Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	ABC Book	Dr. Suess's ABC	Theodore Geisel	2.1	Learn a new ABC song and dance.	Lists words beginning with each letter.
	ABC Book	Farm Alphabet Book	Jane Miller	K-2	Have each student say a letter of the alphabet in order. Grade K- ESOL Reading/Writing 10	Letters of the alphabet with picture of farm animals.
	ABC Book	My ABC's	Don L. Curry	2.8	Make a class ABC big book and draw pictures.	Common items and what letter they start with.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Interest/AR Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Predictable Book	Have You Seen My Cat?	Eric Carle	K-2	Use cutout felt and pipe cleaners to make a cat.	He sees many different kinds of cats until he finds his own.
	Predictable Book	Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See?	Eric Carle	K-2	Make a bear face out of styrofoam balls and decorate.	Lists all the things the bear sees looking at him.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator	Recommened Interest/AR Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy/ Fairytale	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Retold by Debi Gliori ill. by Penelope Lively	K-2	Students will make a mask based on one of the characters in the story.	The three bears' food is too hot and left for a walk. Goldilocks ate Baby Bear's prridge, sat in his chair, and slept in his bed. They caught her asleep in his bed.
	Traditional Fantasy/ Fairytale	Cinderella	Retold by Hara Lewis ill. by Barbara Lanza	K-2	Students will act out the story of Cinderella with each child playing a different part.	Cinderella was happy until her daddy married a hateful woman with two mean daughters. They made her their slave. But, she gets to go to the ball and meets the Prince and they fall in love.
	Traditional Fantasy/ Fairytale	Snow White	Retold by Brothers Grimm ill. by Charles Santore	K-2	Have students make up and draw their own dwarf, name him, and decorate.	Snow White lived with seven dwarfs. She was tricked by a witch to eat a poisoned apple and fell into a deep sleep.
	Traditional Fantasy/ Fairytale	Little Red Riding Hood	Retold by Harriet Ziefert ill. by Emily Bolam	K-2	Have students make a puppet of Little Red Riding Hood or the wolf.	Little Red Riding Hood had to travel through the woods to see her grandmother but she encountered a horrible wolf on the way.
	Traditional Fantasy/ Fairytale	Jack and the Beanstalk	Retold by John Kurtz	K-2	Have students plant their own beanstalk and see if it will grow.	Jack thought he had hit the lottery when he came home with Magic Beans. His mother threw them out and a huge beanstalk grew. Jack climbed it and encountered an evil giant.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Interest/AR Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational	It's Pumpkin Time!	by Zoe Hall ill. by Shari Halpern	K-2	Class will draw the life cycle of a plant and label it. S1L1 A.	Life cycle of a pumpkin is described.
	Informational	From Egg to Chicken	by Gerald Legg, David Salariya, Carolyn Scrace	1-3	Draw a picture of a baby animal and parents that come from an egg and write about it. SKL2 D.	Life cycle of a chicken is shown, from inside the egg to adulthood.
	Informational	Next Stop Grand Central	Maira Kalman	2-4	Student will choose a profession from the story and write about what that person does. SSKE1	Information about Grand Central Station and the people that work there and people that ride the train.
	Informational	It's Science: Full of Energy	Sally Hewitt	3-5	Class will make a chart and tell about different sources of energy. S2P2 A.	Information about all different kinds of energy, from human energy to electrical energy.