Second+Grade

=Library Use and Care=
 * Dewey Decimal
 * Alphabetizing
 * Catalog search
 * Book Care
 * Reference Resources
 * 1) Read and do activities from The Secrets of the Sea Chest

Reading The Tortoise and the Hare Race -- Learning About Books & Libraries: a Gold Mine of Games, p. 75 Wodney Says -- Learning About Books & Libraries: a Gold Mine of Games, p. 91
 * 1) The Reading Game -- 3rd quarter
 * Award winners
 * 1) Caldecott Challenge -- Stretchy Library Lessons p. 14
 * Genres

Research
 * Catalog search
 * Encyclopedia
 * Databases
 * Search engines
 * Bibliography
 * Copyright

Technology Skills
 * Vocabulary
 * Proper use of equipment
 * Keyboarding
 * Multimedia presentation

Internet =First Quarter= First Week (Sept. 6-9)
 * Safety
 * Program use
 * Navigation
 * 1) Activity: Paint sticks - Only students who have not already done so and only when there is another adult in the room. Color sticks with permanent marker.
 * 2) Reading: __The Librarian from the Black Lagoon__ by Mike Thaler
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: -- Mother Goose Rhymes and Songs flipchart. Do as many as there is time for.
 * 4) Alphabet: Seating chart in alphabetical order
 * 5) Library vocabulary:

Second Week (Sept. 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: Discuss classroom rules and how they apply in the library
 * 2) Reading: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 1
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: --
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Discuss classroom rules and how they apply in the library.
 * 6) Friday:

Third Week (Sept. 19-23) Testing - Did not start as expected I think the classroom rules discussion will take up all of the 2nd week. We may be able to start dictionary activities and then continue working on it during 3rd week.
 * 1) Activity:
 * 2) Reading: __What Happened to Marion's Book__ by Berg
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: --
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) How to take care of a book. Remind students to return signed AUP
 * 6) Friday: No class this week

Fourth Week (Sept. 26-30) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Make login/password cards
 * 2) Reading: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 2
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Remind students to return signed AUPs
 * 6) No class on Friday

Fifth Week (Oct. 3-7) -- Testing --
 * 1) Activity: Yellow sticky search in Everybody books
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Yellow sticky search
 * 5) Website:
 * 6) Friday:

Sixth Week (Oct. 10-14) -- Testing --
 * 1) Activity: Finish making login/password cards.
 * 2) Reading: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 3
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Go over yellow sticky results then checkout
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye __ by Geronimo Stilton and check out


 * Conferences**

Seventh Week (Oct. 24-28)
 * 1) Activity: At the computers: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From 2nd Grade Internet Resources go to **Mouse** **practice** sites
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Trip Into Town and Food Pyramid
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__ under document camera . Check out

Eighth Week (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4)
 * 1) Activity: At the computers: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From 2nd Grade Internet Resources go to the 6 alphabetizing websites
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Work on alphabetizing on computers
 * 5) Websites: Alphabet Match, Paw Park Alphabet Bears, Alphabet Order, Learning Planet ABC Order, Alphabet Order 1, Alphabetizing with hard words, Alphabetizing through the 3rd letter
 * 6) No Friday class

Ninth Week (Nov. 7-11)
 * 1) Activity: Alphabetizing test
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Test
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) No Friday classes because of report card day

=Second Quarter= First Week (Nov. 28 - Dec. 2)
 * 1) Activity: Correct tests
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__ under document camera . Check out.

Second week (Dec. 5-9)
 * 1) Activity: At the computers: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From 2nd Grade Internet Resources go to the new alphabetizing site or use the ones already linked. Students who need to finish correcting papers will do that before going to the computers
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Alphabet Animals
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Third week (Dec. 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: At the computers: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From 2nd Grade Internet Resources go to Fix the Keyboard. Students record the number of clicks it takes to fix the keyboard. Try to have fewer clicks each time.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Fix the Keyboard
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Fourth week (Dec. 19-23)
 * 1) Activity: At the computers: Log in. Double click on Tux Typing. Everyone start on Fish cascade, easy level, the alphabet. Write down what level and number of fish.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__


 * Holiday Break**

Fifth week (Jan. 2-6)
 * 1) Activity: At the computers log in. Navigating to and from my [|Teacher Space] page investigate snowflake sites: [|Snow Flake Bentley images], [|Make-a-Flake], and [|Make flakes] (Mouse practice)
 * 2) Reading: Book talk __Snow Flake Bentley__ and snow flake books
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: [|Snow Flake Bentley images], [|Make-a-Flake], and [|Make flakes]
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Sixth week (Jan. 9-13) Testing
 * 1) Activity: __1.Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 4 2. Show how to use an atlas. Use Map Studies Flipchart.
 * 2) Reading: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 4
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: testing
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Seventh week (Jan. 16-29) Testing No class on Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. day
 * 1) Activity: Search for titles in online catalog for Everybody and Fiction. Find the books on the shelf
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: testing
 * 6) Friday: Search for titles in online catalog for Everybody and Fiction. Find the books on the shelf.

Eighth week (Jan. 23-27) Testing
 * 1) Activity:
 * 2) Reading: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 5
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: testing
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Ninth week (Jan. 30 - Feb. 3) Testing on Monday & Tuesday
 * 1) Activity: Show how to use a telephone book.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: No Friday class

Tenth week (Feb. 6-10) (Monday and Tuesday only)
 * 1) Activity: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: testing
 * 6) No Friday class

=Third Quarter= Objectives: Students will investigate various reference resources and use them to answer questions or to learn something new. Students will determine which reference sources would be useful in various situations. Students will use magazines to research animals Students will read a variety of materials playing the "Crazy Library Game" Students will demonstrate the ability to log on to a computer. Students will use a mouse efficiently. Students will navigate to teacher selected websites. Students will use Word software. Students will save document correctly.
 * Reference/research**
 * Reading**
 * Technology**

First Week (Feb. 27 - March 2) Short week
 * 1) Activity: New seating
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: Go through as many new ones as time allows
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Literacy Celebration

Second week: (March 5-9)
 * 1) Activity: Safety Land: [] Requires reading so may be better done as a class at the white board. Either as a class or individually at computers students can then watch Clicky's Leprechaun Adventure video and Faux Paw the Techno Cat video
 * 2) Reading: Introduce Crazy Library Game. Check out a book that has a person on the cover.
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Third week: (March 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: Aussie version of Surf Swell Island: [] Since this site was apparently not working change of plans: Introduce the issue of privacy. [|What's Private]. Use same whiteboard flipchart as 3rd grade. Either as a class or individually at computers students can then watch Clicky's Leprechaun Adventure video and Faux Paw the Techno Cat video.
 * 2) Reading: Crazy Library Game = Check out a book from a bottom shelf
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: [] [] []
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Fourth week: (March 19-23)
 * 1) Activity: Online safety game: Clicky tries to capture the villain who is using bad language online []
 * 2) Reading: Crazy Library Game = Check out a blue book
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: []
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Fifth week: (March 26 - 30)
 * 1) Activity: Webonauts Internet Academy: [] A PBS game that covers a variety of online issues.
 * 2) Reading: Crazy Library Game = Check out a book about an animal
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Sixth week: (April 2-3) Short week then conferences
 * 1) Activity: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__
 * 2) Reading: Crazy Library Game = .Had to teach in classroom so unable to play Crazy Library Game
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Seventh week: (April 9-13) __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 6? Depends on testing schedule
 * 1) Activity: [] Unfortunately this is not an option unless there are no tests at any school in the district on that day.
 * 1) Reading: Crazy Library Game = Check out a book whose author's name starts with the same letter as your last name Need to move this one down = Check out a book that has more than one copy. Unable to check out in the library so this was not an option.
 * 2) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 3) Alphabet:
 * 4) Websites: [] Unfortunately this is not an option unless there are no tests at any school in the district on that day.
 * 5) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Eighth week: (April 16-20) Testing
 * 1) Activity: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 7
 * 2) Reading: Crazy Library Game = Check out a book with a geometric shape on the cover. Unable to do this.
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Ninth week: (April 23-27) Testing
 * 1) Activity: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 8
 * 2) Reading: Crazy Library Game = A biography. Unable to do this.
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye__

Tenth week: (April 30 - May 3) Testing Friday report card day = = =Fourth Quarter= First week: (Tuesday, May 31-Friday June 3)
 * 1) Activity: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 9
 * 2) Reading: Crazy Library Game = A book recommended by a friend. Couldn't do this.
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Report card day
 * 1) Activity: Binky's facts and opinions. Discuss the difference before going to computers. Also talk about going to websites that are safe such as author websites like this one from Marc Brown.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: []
 * 6) Friday: No school on Monday so Friday will be a normal class.

Second Week: (June 6-10) Testing
 * 1) Activity: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 8. Students act out the parts.
 * 2) Reading: Crazy Library Game = A book that has more than one copy.
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Ramona and her Father__. Extended check out

Third Week: (June 13-17) Testing
 * 1) Activity: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 9. Students act out the parts.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Ramona and her Father__. Extended check out

Fourth Week: (June 20-24) Testing
 * 1) Activity: __Mr. Crumb's Secret__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 10. Students act out the parts.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Ramona and her Father__. Extended check out

Fifth Week: (June 27-July 1) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Review reference sources used by Fribble in __Mr. Crumb's__ Secret. Go to Booker's Roomto show them the parts of a computer. Find out if anyone knows each part. Then give each student a white board and marker for Key Decisions -- Learning About Books & Libraries: a Gold Mine of Games, p. 52. Have a keyboard up on the white board.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: []
 * 6) Friday: Read __Ramona and her Father__. Extended check out

Sixth Week (July 11-15)
 * 1) Activity: Practice typing. Dance Mat Typing Alpha Munchies
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml@http://www.abcya.com/kids_typing_game.htm
 * 6) Friday: Read __Ramona and her Father__. Extended check out

Seventh Week (July 18-22) Eighth Week (July 25-29)
 * 1) Activity: Practice typing. Dance Mat Typing Alpha Munchies
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml@http://www.abcya.com/kids_typing_game.htm
 * 6) Friday: Read __Ramona and her Father__. Extended check out
 * 1) Activity: Practice typing. Dance Mat Typing Alpha Munchies
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml@http://www.abcya.com/kids_typing_game.htm
 * 6) Friday:Read __Ramona and her Father__. Extended check out

Genres in classroom Fantasy fiction What sort of genre things can we do on computers when they are available? Mr. Deppe's class doing research Genres in classroom Reality fiction Research - Big 6 first 3 steps

Review reference sources with the flipchart: Reference quiz -- Use Activotes. The quiz is at the end of this flipchart Explore three author websites: [|Jan Brett character games] [|Seussville] Babymouse [|Munch Mouse game] Crazy Library Game - Check out a book by an author that has written many books.