Second grade:
January- students will make a polar box to see how long they can keep an ice cube from melting, investigate how snow forms and make fake snow. Students will test how animals stay warm in the winter, do snow mazes, snow art out the window, snowball activity following direction,read Axle Annie, analogies, thinketts, weather words, and venn diagram of two snowmen. They will create a cinquain poem and do logic puzzles. They will also begin their research of the
Eiffel Tower in Paris, France and compare it to Paris, Texas Eiffel tower.
February- They will continue study of France, build an Eiffel tower from toothpicks and marshmallows, Valentine word searches, logic puzzles, venn diagram, fact and opinion of hearts, palindromes, George Washington flipped his wig activity, famous people, and absurdities. Students will make a first draft of their report on the Eiffel Tower and learn to critique their work and improve their reports on France.
March-continue France research, Study Leonardo De Vinci,sketch Mona Lisa,create Eiffel Tower to display in hallway during 3rd grade presentation of France.
April- Category Cafe, Iron Chef competition, 3-D food plate, map is making me hungry activity, milk experiment..exploding rainbow.
Third Grade:
January- Students set New Year's goal and resolutions, Make extreme snowflakes, extreme snowflake mazes, create Snowman Acrostic poems, learn weather words, do cold as ice experiments, Huff and Puff challenges, catching the wind with windbags, reading temperatures and wind gauges,create a stand-up snowpal following directions, learn blizzard warnings and begin research of the country of France.
February- Students will continue research of France,create a salt map, learn important words in french, study daily life and assign partners for research. Students will do logic puzzles and brain teasers with Valentine art,and use logic in the case of the missing bracelet. Students will learn how to post pictures and create a tri-fold board using balance and color for their research project. They will make a first draft, critique their work and prepare a final report on the country of France.
March- students will learn how to present information to an audience by presenting first to classmates before presenting to the 2nd/3rd graders at Everett.
We will use venn-diagrams to compare Paris, France to Paris, Texas, learn about famous inventors from France, and do art techniques from famous french artists.
April- Entrepreneur activity starting a business, do coin in a glass experiment, taco penny experiment, checkbook challenge, logic puzzles with coins, design a new coin and interpret Ben Franklin's statement, "A penny saved is a penny earned!"