• Students will choose from a list of historical figures, research, and present information about the historical individual through an oral talk using a PowerPoint slide presentation. The students will also create a symbol that logically represents the historical figure using various materials in the classroom.
• Virginia English SOL
  • Oral Language 2.3 The student will use oral communication skills to share information with an audience.

Stellaluna and Elmer

By: Melissa Ganley, Melissa Riddlemoser, Jennifer Vermillion\

• Students will be able to identify the beginning, middle and end sections of Stellaluna and Elmer. They will create a book report/PowerPoint presentation using their own sentences and present their book reports with small groups.
• Virginia Language Arts SOL
  • 2.9: The student will write stories, letters and simple explanations.

Where the Wild Things Are

By: Jennifer Vermillion, Melissa Riddlemoser, Melissa Ganley

• Students will draw a picture of a monster after reading, Where the Wild Things Are, and provide a written statement with at least 3 details describing their monster. Students will submit an e-mail to www.monsterexchange.org, including a scanned picture and statement.
• Virginia Language Arts SOL
  • 2.9: The student will write stories, letters and simple explanations.

The Cat in the Hat
BY: Kristen A. Reynolds, Laura K. Watkins, Leslie T. Seirup, Elizabeth A. Collins

• After listening to a reading of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, students will use Kid Pix to draw three pictures that accurately represent events occurring at the beginning, middle, and end of this story.
• Working independently, students will then open the KidPix application on computers in the lab and will use the KidPix application to draw three pictures. These pictures will depict events that the students feel accurately represent events occurring at the beginning, middle, and end of this story.
• The students should print out their pictures and place them in sequential order, labeling each one "beginning," "middle," or "end."
• The assessment criteria will be (1) that the pictures are in the correct sequential order and (2) that they accurately depict events that occurred in the story.
• Virginia Language Arts SOL
  • 2.6 : The student will use knowledge of story structure and sequence.

Using Spreadsheets to Track Reading and Writing Progress

• Students will record daily the number of pages read and words written in their journal into a spreadsheet program
• Throughout the year, students will increase the number of pages and words read.

Brainstorming Story Ideas Using Pictures
BY: Lori Gregoire

• The students will be able to generate ideas for writing creative fiction stories by visualizing and drawing pictures.  Brainstorming will include setting, characters, topic, and problem, and solution/conclusion.  The students will be able to write their stories to correspond with the pictures they have drawn.
  

MATH

Graphing Weather Data
By: E. Haley Stone

• Students will use graphs to answer comparative and quantitative questions with 90% accuracy.
• Students will enter weather-related data into a Claris Works spreadsheet with 95% accuracy.
• Students will use Claris Works to make a bar graph of their data.
• Virginia Math SOL 1.19
  • The student will interpret information displayed in a picture or object graph using the vocabulary: more, less, fewer, greater than, and less than.
  • Students will describe how graphs depict data.

SCIENCE

Finding Out About Animals
By: Katherine M. Bessom

• Students will make a five-page book (over a span of days) about one kind of animal, while working in groups. Students will use the internet to find out about their animal.

"Oceans and Continents"
By: Jennifer Holbrook, Nicole Kurz, Mary Kate du Laney, Sherrie Geyer

• Students will listen attentively and actively participate with the teacher during the direct instruction lesson on the location of the seven continents and four oceans on maps.
• Given a worksheet consisting of the seven continents, unlabeled, and a word box on the bottom of the page with the names of each continent, the students will correctly label all seven of the continents on the map.
  Given a worksheet consisting of the seven continents, unlabeled, and a word box on the bottom of the page with the names of each ocean, the students will correctly write the location of each ocean on the map.
  
  

SOCIAL STUDIES

The Development of Written Communication/ Hieroglyphics
BY: Lori Gregoire

The students will gain an appreciation for written communication by considering what their lives would be like without writing.