Third+Grade

=Library Use and Care= General library navigation and policies: Where in the Library -- Stretchy Library Lessons, p. 23
 * Dewey Decimal
 * Alphabetizing
 * Catalog search
 * 1) S.A.T. -- 57 Games to Play in the Library or Classroom, p, 78
 * 2) Cruising the Catalog -- 57 Games to Play in the Library or Classroom, p. 79
 * Book Care
 * Reference Resources

Reading
 * 1) TicTacToe -- 2nd Quarter
 * 2) "Show Me!" (Billy Goats Gruff) - comparing various versions -- Learning About Books & Libraries: a Gold Mine of Games, p. 86
 * Award winners
 * Genres
 * Maud Hart Lovelace -- 2nd Quarter and 3rd Quarter - **Require at least one book**

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. Students not painting sticks will listen to a book.
 * 2) Reading: __The King's Equal__ by Patterson
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: -- Mother Goose Rhymes and Songs flipchart Do a couple quick if time
 * 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: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 1
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: --
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Website:
 * 6) Friday: How to choose a good book. Read __The King's Equal__

Third Week (Sept. 19-23) ** Testing **
 * 1) Activity: Book Care. Read __The Shelf Elf Looks It UP__ and work on Shelf Elf dict. sheet
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: --
 * 4) Alphabet: Use alphabet skills to find books on the shelves
 * 5) Website:
 * 6) Friday class: How to choose a good book and Read __The King's Equal__

Fourth Week (Sept. 26-30) ** Testing **
 * 1) Activity: **Yellow stickies in Everybody and fiction**
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: --
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Return yellow sticky grades
 * 6) Friday: Read __The King's Equal__ and check out silently

Fifth Week (Oct. 4-8) ** Testing **
 * 1) Activity: Make login/password cards while I read aloud
 * 2) Reading: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 2
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Make login/password cards. Remind students to return signed AUPs
 * 6) Friday: Read __The King's Equal__

Sixth Week (Oct. 11-15) ** Testing **
 * 1) Activity: Make login/password cards while I read aloud
 * 2) Reading: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 3
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Make login/password cards. Remind students to return signed AUPs
 * 6) Friday: Read __The King's Equal__


 * Conferences**

Seventh Week (Oct. 24-28)
 * 1) Activity: At the computers: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From 3rd Grade Websites go to Parts of a book game sites
 * 2) Reading: Maud Hart Lovelace books are available
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Four Parts of a Book Games, Parts of a Book Hangman,
 * 6) No Friday class

Eighth Week (Nov. 1-5)
 * 1) Activity: At the computers: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From 3rd Grade Websites go to Parts of a book game sites
 * 2) Reading: Maud Hart Lovelace books are available
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Four Parts of a Book Games, Parts of a Book Hangman,
 * 6) Friday: Read __The King's Equal__

Ninth Week (Nov. 8-13)
 * 1) Activity: Parts of a Book test
 * 2) Reading: Maud Hart Lovelace books are available
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Parts of a Book Test
 * 6) Friday: No classes on report card day

=Second Quarter= First Week (Nov. 28 - Dec.2)
 * 1) Activity: Booktalk Maud Hart Lovelace books
 * 2) Reading: Maud Hart Lovelace
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __The King's Equal__.

Second week (Dec. 5-9)
 * 1) Activity: Start checking out books for the TicTacToe Assignment
 * 2) Reading: The TicTacToe Assignment:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Show how to use online visual search catalog to find books.
 * 6) Friday: Read __The King's Equal__.

Third week (Dec. 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: Correct "Parts of a book" test
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Same as during the week because of snow days

Fourth week (Dec. 19-23) Only one class this week
 * 1) Activity: Log in. Navigate to [|Mrs. Watson's Website]. From K-1 Computer Links go to all 15 nursery rhyme sites. Play all 3 games, Listen and Read nursery rhyme.
 * 2) Reading: Read along with nursery rhymes
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: Learn 6 new ones
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: Hey Diddle Diddle, It's Raining, It's Pouring, Hickory, Dickory, Dock, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Humpty Dumpty, One, Two, Three, Four, Five.
 * 6) Friday: None


 * 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) Remind students what they should do if they accidentally get to a site that they should not be on.
 * 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: Students on field trip

Sixth week (Jan. 9-13) Testing?
 * 1) Activity: Watch and listen to the Maud Hart Lovelace DVD
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:Testing
 * 6) Friday: Read __Sideways Stories from Wayside School__

Seventh week (Jan. 16-20) Testing No class on Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. day
 * 1) Activity: Start worksheet if time
 * 2) Reading: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 4
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: testing
 * 6) Friday: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 4

Eighth week (Jan. 23-27) Testing __**TicTacToe Due**__
 * 1) Activity: **TicTacToe Assignment due**
 * 2) Reading: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 5
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: testing
 * 6) Friday: Read __Sideways Stories from Wayside School__

Ninth week (Jan. 30 - Feb. 3) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Parts of a book review using flipchart and activotes.
 * 2) Reading: Show Tic Tack Toe results. Discuss what genres liked that they didn't think they liked and the ones they did not like.
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday:Read __Sideways Stories from Wayside School__

Tenth week (Feb. 6-10) Classes on 6th and 7th only
 * 1) Activity: Read __Sideways Stories from Wayside School__
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: testing
 * 6) Friday: No Friday class due to report card day

=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 discuss the Big 6 research steps and use them for various assignments Students will read books nominated for the Maud Hart Lovelace award and understand basic requirements for winning the award. Some students will not be interested in the Maud Hart Lovelace award. Those students will compare Caldecott award books. 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
 * In the classroom students will be writing poetry?**
 * 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: Discuss the difference between opinion and fact and why it matters before playing Binky's Fact and Opinions game and/or Garfield -- Fact or Opinion. What Internet sites can you trust?
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: [] []
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wayside School__. Extended check out

Third week: (March 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: Remind students of [|What's Private]. At computers: Students play [|Privacy Playground: The First Adventures of the Three CyborPigs] The purpose of the game is to teach kids how to spot online marketing strategies, protect their personal information and avoid online predators.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: [] and []
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wayside School__. Extended check out

Fourth week: (March 19-23)
 * 1) Activity: Discuss the fact that some websites are fun but they are really trying to sell things. Follow Cybersmart lesson plan [|Things for Sale.]and at computers have them evaluate one of the other sites and fill out a [|worksheet].
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: [] and []
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wayside School__. Extended check out

Fifth week: (March 26 - 30) TESTING
 * In the classroom students will be writing biography?**
 * 1) Activity: Fill out Maud Hart Lovelace form to show me how many they read. Brief discussion of "product websites". Read __Secret of the Silver Key__ chapter 6.
 * 2) Reading: Vote for Maud Hart Lovelace favorite
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: [] In "Forms of Media" Garfield shows different places where we see ads. And in "Fact or Opinion" Garfield helps Nermal tell the difference.
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wayside School__. Extended check out

Sixth week: (April 2-3) Short week then conferences
 * 1) Activity: Read __Wayside School__.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday:

Seventh week: (April 9-13) No Testing
 * 1) Activity: On the Garfield site, find more places where ads are placed.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: [] In "Forms of Media" Garfield shows different places where we see ads. If time they can look at the Diversity one.
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wayside School__. Extended check out

Eighth week: (April 16-20) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Read __Secret of the Silver Key__ chapter 7
 * 2) Reading: __Secret of the Silver Key__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: No online activity allowed during testing.
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wayside School__

Ninth week: (April 23-27) Testing
 * 1) Activity: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 8
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wayside School__. Extended check out

Tenth week: (April 30 - May 3) Testing Friday report card day
 * 1) Activity: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 7
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Report card day

Need to do: Nonfiction catalog search

Notes: A cool site that we did not use -- []

How well do students know the keyboard? -- []

=Fourth Quarter=

First week: (Tuesday, May 31-Friday June 3)
 * 1) Activity: Discuss going to websites that you know are safe and that you can trust. Have Dav Pilkey books out on the book cart. Show them Dav Pilkey's [|Groovy Games]
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: []
 * 6) Friday: No class on Monday so Friday will be a normal class.

Second Week: (June 6-10) ** Testing **
 * 1) Activity: __When Marion Copied__ by Brook Berg and discuss plagiarism and copyright.
 * 2) Reading: Maud Hart Lovelace state totals
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wayside School__. Extended check out

Third Week (June 13-17) ** Testing **
 * 1) Activity: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 7. Introduce __Famous First Facts__
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday:

Fourth Week (June 21-25) ** Testing **
 * 1) Activity: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 8
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday:

Fifth Week (June 28-July 1) Testing
 * 1) Activity: __Secret of the Silver Key__ by Phyllis Jean Perry chapter 9
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday:

**1 week break for Fourth of July** This means that I'll only have 3 weeks of computer time at the end of the quarter.

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: Finish __Secret of the Silver Key__

Seventh Week (July 18-22)
 * 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: Finish __Secret of the Silver Key__

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: Finish __Secret of the Silver Key__

Ninth Week 