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Shaffer and Ellis ideas: Talk about feelings we get when listening to certain animals (Example: Lion roar vs. Parrot). Additionally, looking at how animals interact.

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Shaffer and Ellis ideas: Researching classification of animals, comparing water-life vs. animals on land, life cycle of plants/the role plants play in an ecosystem. A focus on Annapolis' wildlife would be great to tie in the local aspect.

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Shaffer and Ellis ideas: creating animal tracks, painting/water color animals or plants, animal portraits, or animal masks.

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Shaffer and Ellis ideas: Animal movements in racing. Example: crab walking vs. bunny hops

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Shaffer and Ellis ideas: Songs about life cycles, habitat sound effects. Example: Rainforest sounds vs Savannah/Grass land. Also using a rainstick if we have it!

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Belnomi: Include how you feel when just looking at an animal - different emotions

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Belnomi: Paint or draw beautiful scenes in nature to capture how we should want to keep it this way (plants, animals, sky, the land including mountains, the oceans, etc.)

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Belnomi: A form of "tag" whereby the predators try to catch the other animals.

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PE: Tell a story through exercise or dance.

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Music: Telling stories through music (we discussed Peter and the wolf)

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Canopy: Reflect on how we regulate our emotions or send messages to others. How they used to send messages to each other, how they grow in communicating with others.

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Art: Telling a story through their artwork. Look at pictures of how knowledge and skills were passed down through artwork.

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Media: Reading stories about life in the past. Read stories about how different cultures communicated in the past.

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Art: We also read about dream catchers, maybe they can make dream catchers?

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Force and Motion that is involved in making music. Invention of musical intstruments

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Wall Ball Bouncing, comparing force for different bounces, and the motions that come from it

Bowling with different types of balls (bowling ball, football) to detect the force in motion and how shape effects it.

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How to show motion or force in artwork. Use of force to make different line or paint designs. Some kind of movement art,

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Books or activities that involve growth mindset, creativity, improvement, goal setting

Creating different shapes/sizes of paper airplanes- how can the weight and shape determine the force in motion.

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Books about innovation, engineering, force, motion, industrial revolution

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Read books about how stories are passed down to other cultures. Anansi the spider stories might be good.

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Teach students about songs that have been passed down through different cultures and how the songs have changed.

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Create movements that tell a story, they could perform the movements in groups for each other.

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Create art that tells a story using different mixed medias.

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Discuss different stories that related to different emotions.

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Art: We are working on fairy tales and nursery rhymes for the next few weeks and then moving to our "Creative Me" theme. Throughout these themes we are focusing on story-retelling, patterns, experimenting, and one-to-one correspondence. Several of the activities revolve around puppets so they could make their own puppet or base one on a fairy tale like The Three Little Pigs or The Little Red Hen.

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Art: We are working on fairy tales and nursery rhymes for the next few weeks and then moving to our "Creative Me" theme. Throughout these themes we are focusing on story-retelling, patterns, experimenting, and one-to-one correspondence. Several of the activities revolve around puppets so they could make their own puppet or base one on a fairy tale like The Three Little Pigs or The Little Red Hen.

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Games/sports of the past. i.e, red rover, red light green light, hoop spinning

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Art: Transportation Vehicles, Paper Airplanes, Marbling Painting, Blow Painting, etc. We are doing forces in motion.

PE: Mini Golf, Bowling, Corn Hole, Fast/Slow, Paddle Ball, Tug of War

Media: Careers around building, school past and present.

Canopy: Emotions/Dance Body Movement
How Emotions Change and it affects of body language/movement

Music: Drums, Boom Wacker, Triangles, Tambourine Any instrument where they use forces to strike.

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Vivaldi’s four seasons, music of the past

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Utilizing different information sources, i.e., encyclopedia, pebble go, etc

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Time line of life- how much I’ve grown, sunflower height chart (from baby to now), flower with faces in the middle (sunflower)

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Ladybugs, ducks, dried plant rubbings, art from flower petals

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Music: We are beginning to work on rhyming words through fairy tales and nursery rhymes so any songs that emphasize rhyming will be helpful. Songs involving patterns will also integrate well with our current themes.

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Music: We are beginning to work on rhyming words through fairy tales and nursery rhymes so any songs that emphasize rhyming will be helpful. Songs involving patterns will also integrate well with our current themes.

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P.E.: Gross motor patterns, one-to-one correspondence games/activities like bean bag tossing, movements corresponding with sounds, activities involving being helpful/using teamwork

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P.E.: Gross motor patterns, one-to-one correspondence games/activities like bean bag tossing, movements corresponding with sounds, activities involving being helpful/using teamwork

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Canopy: Helpful vs. not helpful actions/behaviors, being kind (we have a kindness tree in our class now,) using gentle hands, taking calming breaths, ways to express and regulate our emotions, being "creative"

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Canopy: Helpful vs. not helpful actions/behaviors, being kind (we have a kindness tree in our class now,) using gentle hands, taking calming breaths, ways to express and regulate our emotions, being "creative"

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Media: Fairy tales (We have focused most on The Three Little Pigs, The Little Red Hen, Chicken Little, Jack and the Bean Stalk.) and nursery rhymes, retelling stories, emphasizing rhyming words, finding patterns in stories, stories on safety, kindness, and being helpful-- why it's important to follow directions

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Media: Fairy tales (We have focused most on The Three Little Pigs, The Little Red Hen, Chicken Little, Jack and the Bean Stalk.) and nursery rhymes, retelling stories, emphasizing rhyming words, finding patterns in stories, stories on safety, kindness, and being helpful-- why it's important to follow directions

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Science Unit: Science of Sound. Sound is vibrations. How do we express our values through sound/music/lyrics. How is sound connected to our lives? We are also learning about the Revolutionary War...what instruments have been used in wars in the past and why?
SONGS: The World Turned Upside Down, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Hamilton (check for clean lyrics)

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We are looking at the colonial flags...what do they represent...why were those images/colors chosen? We are looking at political cartoons that were used during the Revolutionary War. Students will eventually be creating their own images/art for a cause.

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Topics: Revolutionary War and the Science of Sound
Aubrey, I believe we spoke about some great ideas you already had for this unit. So we don't want to replicate anything you were already doing. I think it had something to do with movement/music/poetry/etc. If you don't remember, just ask Lindsay Laws. :)

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Unit Topics: Revolutionary War and the Science of Sound. Our related concepts are also perspective and connection. I could see some fun teamwork games happening here where students must connect/work together.
Our Central Idea is: Human expression is inspired by difficult times. I would love the idea of how NOT to be a SORE WINNER and a SORE LOSER!! 4th grade boys could really use this related to sports. :)
IDEA: Reenact Paul Revere's Ride...colonial dance (ask Mr. Ormond)

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An interesting topic for media research might have to do with our line of inquiry, The human reaction to injustice. Students have been introduced to some current events related to injustice. They could do some research to find examples in history (boycotts, sit-ins, marches, etc.).
For science we are learning about the science of sound.
IDEAS: how to cite their sources - POETRY