First+Grade

Library Use and Care
 * Dewey Decimal
 * Alphabetizing
 * Catalog search
 * Book Care
 * 1) Mr. Wiggle's Book by Paula Craig
 * Reference Resources

Reading Doggy Romp -- Learning About Books & Libraries: a Gold Mine of Games, p. 64 Friend -- Learning About Books & Libraries: a Gold Mine of Games, p. 79
 * Award winners
 * 1) Caldecott Challenge -- Stretchy Library Lessons, p. 14?
 * Genres

Research Fiction and Nonfiction: Real or Imagined? -- Stretchy Library Lessons, p. 26
 * 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. If time, students can tell about what they did over the break.
 * 2) Reading: __But Excuse me That is My Book__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: -- Mother Goose Rhymes and Songs flipchart
 * 4) Alphabet: Seating chart in alphabetical order
 * 5) Friday: just like the rest of the week

Second Week (Sept. 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: Discuss library rules and book care. Color Marion's coloring sheet
 * 2) Reading: __What Happened to Marion's Book? __
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Read: __The Littles__ by John Peterson How to choose a great book

Third Week (Sept. 19-23) Testing --
 * 1) Activity: Discuss check out rules. Marion's coloring sheet
 * 2) Reading: __The Shelf Elf__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Read: __The Littles__ by John Peterson How to choose a great book

Fourth Week (Sept. 26-30) Testing --
 * 1) Activity: Make login/password cards
 * 2) Reading: __The Littles__ by John Peterson
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Read: __The Littles__ by John Peterson How to choose a great book

Fifth Week (Oct. 3-7) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Make login/password cards
 * 2) Reading: __The Littles__ by John Peterson
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Read __The Littles__ by John Peterson Check out

Sixth Week (Oct.10-14) -- Testing --
 * 1) Activity: Yellow sticky search in Everybody books
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) No Friday class


 * Conferences**

Seventh Week (Oct. 24-28)
 * 1) Activity: At the computers: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From K-1 Computer Links go to **Mouse practice** sites
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Build a House Make a Face Make a Snowman Make a Pizza Trip Into Town and Food Pyramid
 * 6) Friday: Read __The Littles__ under document camera . Check out

Eighth Week (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4)
 * 1) Activity: Mouse practice. Create a Robot and Create a Car.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Read __The Littles__ Talk about checking out a "just right book"

Ninth Week (Nov. 7-11)
 * 1) Activity: Alphabet test
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Report card day - No school

Did not do this:
 * 1) Activity: Fill out graphic organizer on boa constrictors. Show difference between fiction and nonfiction books. Use document camera to show **table of contents**, **glossary**, and **index**.
 * 2) Reading: Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash. And a nonfiction book on boa constrictors

=Second Quarter= First Week (Nov. 28 - Dec. 2)
 * 1) Activity: Go over tests and correct test (Didn't have time to correct tests after going over them)
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Read __The Littles__

09-10 Compare & Contrast magazines

Second week (Dec. 5-9)
 * 1) Activity: Some students still needed to correct tests. Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From K-1 Computer Links go to all 6 nursery rhyme sites. Play all 3 games, Listen and Read nursery rhyme.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:Learn a new nursery rhyme. Not all 6 have been learned even though all 6 sites have been seen.
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Show how to find leveled readers on the shelf. Check out "just right books"

Third week (Dec. 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From K-1 Computer Links go to all **8** nursery rhyme sites. Play all 3 games, Listen and Read nursery rhyme. Some students didn't get to be on computers last week.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:Learn a new nursery rhyme. Not all 8 have been learned even though all 6 sites have been seen.
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Read __The Littles__

Fourth week (Dec. 19-23)
 * 1) Activity: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From K-1 Computer Links go to dot-to-dot counting section. (This satisfies math SMART goal for this week)
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Read __Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins__

09-10 Compared Dewey categories using Dewey flipchart Students estimated how many books we have in each category Very successful - Some students were looking for certain sections after the lesson

09-10 Review the fact that nonfiction is arranged according to the Dewey decimal system. Show a nonfiction book -- __Blizzards__ See if they know where it goes in the Dewey system. Using document camera look at table of contents and index in nonfiction book Read __Snowflake Bentley__ and explain that the Caldecott award will be announced in a couple weeks. Show the __Snow Crystals__ book written by Bentley.


 * 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:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday: Remind students of the leveled labels on hard cover books. Read a Caldecott. Read a new nursery rhyme.

Sixth week (Jan 9-13) Testing
 * 1) Activity:
 * 2) Reading: Book talk Caldecott books in preparation for the Caldecott Game
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) No Friday class because of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday

Seventh week (Jan 16-20) Caldecott announced. Testing
 * 1) Activity:
 * 2) Reading: Book talk Caldecott books in preparation for the Caldecott Game
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet
 * 5) Friday: Read __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__

Eighth week (Jan 23-27) Testing Play Caldecott challenge game Notes: Divide class down the middle into 2 equal groups. Have an aisle in the middle between the 2 teams but they should stay in their assigned seats. Have 1 student from each team use the pen to click on the random number generator. The team with the highest number goes first. After asking a question the team can come down to look at the board if they need to. After answering the question they should go back to assigned seats and one person will click the random number generator to see how many spaces to move on the board. This way you can go in order and everyone gets a turn. It also helps control the noise level in the room if they go back to assigned seats and helps ensure participation. Friday: Read __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__

Ninth week (Jan. 30 - Feb. 3) Testing on Monday & Tuesday only
 * 1) Activity: At the whiteboard, navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. Look at author websites, particularly Caldecott winners.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Friday class: Dot to Dot counting

Tenth week (Feb. 6-10) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Only 2 days of class
 * 2) Reading: __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Everybody book shelf search with yellow post-it notes
 * 5) No class on Friday because it's report card day

=Third Quarter= Objectives: Nothing this quarter Students will read books in various genres Students will demonstrate the ability to log on to a computer. Students will use a mouse efficiently. Students will navigate to teacher selected websites.
 * 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: No Friday class

Second week: (March 5-9)
 * 1) Activity: Computer vocabulary. Find out what they know first. At computers: [|Booker's Room] then [|ABCya Find the Technology] Show both sites. The second is much harder.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: []
 * 6) Friday: Read __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__

Third week: (March 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: Using Cybersmart links have students look for ads, first at the board and then on computers
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Link to lessonplan: []
 * 6) Friday: Read __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__

Fourth week: (March 19-23)
 * 1) Activity: Using Cybersmart links have students evaluate websites.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Link to lessonplan: []
 * 6) Friday: Read __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__

Fifth week: (March 26-30) > Reading:
 * 1) Activity: Fantasy books Read __The Gruffalo__ and have students draw a gruffalo as you read the description. Show them the pictures when it the gruffalo is revealed in the book. In the classroom because of testing.
 * 1) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 2) Alphabet:
 * 3) Websites:
 * 4) Friday: __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__

Sixth week: (April 2-3) Short week then conferences
 * 1) Activity: Read __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: No school

Seventh week: (April 9-13)
 * 1) Activity: Listen to __Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes__
 * 2) Reading: Read __Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes__ by Jackie Mims Hopkins
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__

Eighth week: (April 16-20) Testing?
 * 1) Activity: Check out in the library then go back to the classroom for the lesson. Genre=mystery. Read __Mini-Mysteries Featuring Garfield.__
 * 2) Reading: __Mini-Mysteries Featuring Garfield.__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__

Ninth week: (April 23-27) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Check out in the library then go back to the classroom for the lesson. Genre=mystery. Read __Mini-Mysteries Featuring Garfield.__
 * 2) Reading: __Mini-Mysteries Featuring Garfield.__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds__

Tenth week: (April 30 - May 4) Testing Friday report card day
 * 1) Activity: Genre=Realistic Fiction. Read __Left Behind__
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Report card day

=Fourth Quarter= First week: (Tuesday, May 31-Friday June 3)
 * 1) Activity: Practice logging in to the computer. Make a Robot or Create a Car to practice making pictures and resizing or manipulating items.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: [] and []
 * 6) Friday: No class on Monday so Friday is a regular class.

Second week: (June 6-10) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Genre=Poetry. Read __Hickory Dickory Dock and Other Nursery Rhymes__ illustrated by Carol Jones. Put the Joe Bright poetry character on the white board.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: Since these are poems read some from a book.
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Longer check out. Read __All About Sam__,

Third week: (June 13-17) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Historical fiction booktalks describing what was fact and what was fiction in each book
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Longer check out. Read __All About Sam__,

Fourth week: (June 20-24) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Science Fiction booktalks. Have students figure out what makes each one a science fiction book
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Longer check out. Read __All About Sam__,

Fifth week: (June 27-July 1) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Genre Test - Then together fill out Genre crossword puzzle from Joe Bright teacher book.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Longer check out. Read __All About Sam__,

Fourth of July Break - One week Sixth week: (July 11-15)
 * 1) Activity: Genre word cloud?
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Longer check out. Read __All About Sam__

Word cloud? Second 1/2 of the quarter Look at collage as an art form and in books, particularly Caldecott books What about computer & Caldecott? Caldecott challenge for 3rd quarter reading -- Stretchy Library Lessons, p. 14-19 Already did parts of the computer/vocabulary

Research -- Ask teachers about possibilities