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To engage the you all and to get excited about learning about cities you can do a lot of hands on activities. We know in the midwest the weather is very unpredictable. So for our lesson we are going to make rain sounds using our hands. Here is a video to show how it can be done.

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Community rules
-Creating classroom rules
-We will first read "We the Kids" to learn about the Constitution
-We will watch this video about this classroom's rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWXPCP8t00M
-You will be given an opportunity to participate in dramatic play and act out a model city council. You will be given an abundance of rules that you will implement in your own classrooms (model cities). You will decide 10 rules that you want to implement in the classroom by debating and voting on the rules.
-You will be able to work together to develop classroom rules.
-I can evaluate classroom needs by choosing rules.
-I am still working on deciding which rules are good for our classroom.
-I  need help creating an argument advocating for or against a rule.

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Public transportation
- Art: You will use craft sticks and colored masking tape to create airplanes
- Literacy: You will also glue squares with the letters of your name onto a strip of construction paper to make a name “train”
- I Can understand routes to a specific location using maps, globes, and other simple geographic models (Standard: SS.K.13)
- Read "Ruth and the Green Book"
- Here's a quick video explaining what public transportation is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut-HbauKzDw

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Municipalities
-Today you all will gain an understanding on what rules are and how they are different in cities compared to farms
-You will play a matching game where you either place the rule under city or farm
-You all will be given a little bit of information about cities and farms before the matching game, and then build your learning and comprehension through the game
-I Can understand the differences between living in a city and on a farm through the rules
-I Can gain a better understanding of how important rules are to where someone lives
-SS.K.9: Compare and contrast rules form different places
-A  video that talks about the rules in school, so you have a reminder on what rules are and can start to think about why rules are important. Good for differentiation because in the bottom right hand corner is a gentleman that shows the word or sign in sign language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyLzsQKFpB0

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Citizens/Non-citizens

SS.K.7: Describe ways in which you and others are alike and different within a variety of social categories.

Read Johnny Appleseed

Discuss rights of citizens and some of the ways people become citizens

You will make posters with illustrations of how people become a citizen

I CAN understand how some people are different based on citizenship

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Garbage Collectors
-Read Recycling is Fun by Charles Ghigna
-Go around town and pick up garbage around town
-If the material found is recyclable it will be recycled.
-Recognized the importance of recycling
-I Can Take group or individual action to help address local, regional, and/or global problems. (SS.K.4)

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At home, outside home
-Sensory bins with several objects found at and around the home.
-We will read "Come Over to My House" by Dr. Seuss
-We will watch this video to learn about sorting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpg--e0pCdE
-You will touch, examine and identify objects. You will sort objects based on if they belong inside the home or outside the home. Object examples include cars,  food, lawnmower, clothes, shoes, bikes, etc.
-You will be able to determine if an object belongs inside the home or outside the home.
-I can determine what an object is by touching and examining it
-I am still working on sorting objects by places
-I need help deciding where ambiguous objects belong.

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Land use/Soil
- Compare and contrast types of soil
- Soil uses in city
- Art: Painting with soil
- I Can understand the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment (Standard: K–ESS3–3)
- Read "H is for Hawkeye"
- Here's a quick video about how to paint with soil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yickPrepmWM&feature=youtu.be

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Nature Walk
-You will walk around outside and collect different leaves that you see on the nature walk for your leaf booklet
-In the classroom you all will draw and color the leaves that you have collected on a piece of paper (one on each page of the booklet)
-You will have to write down your observations about each leaf next to it, and then right down one difference it has to another leaf in your booklet
-You all will use the books over leaves to identify the leaves that you have  collected
-I Can Observe leaves to compare and contrast the different types of leaves there are
-I Can expand my comprehension skills from reading to identifying leaves
-Read a book about nature walks and it talks about how to be safe on nature walks and how to describe what you see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A-UoHRg1a4

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Weather/climate

K–ESS2–1: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.

Read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Judi Barrett

Study different types of clouds

Cloud in bottle activity- Pour a little bit of water into the plastic bottle.

Put the cap back on, but leave it open.

Light the match, then blow it out so it smokes.

Suck the smoke into the bottle by squeezing the bottle gently a few times.

Close the cap.

Squeeze the bottle and then release it.

Repeat step 6 several times.

How rainbows form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGWtwhTRHJg

I CAN understand weather changes

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Animals Found in Cities
-Read Baby Animals in Cities by Bobbie Kalman

-Watch this video
-Go on a walk through the city in which you live. You will have a partner to fill out the scavenger hunt sheet.
-You and your partner will share the coolest thing you saw on the scavenger hunt with another group
-I Can use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. (K-LS1-1)

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Precipitation
-Analyzing and coloring the amount of rainfall
-We will first listen to this song about rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu6o23Pu0Do
-Then we will read this book about rain
-You will be given a list of the number of inches of rainfall for seven days. You will color the amount of rainfall next to each person and compare the inches of rainfall to the height of each person.
-I can compare measurements by analyzing the amount of rainfall and the height of people.
-I can color the amount of rainfall.
-I am still working on understanding measurements.
-I need help measuring small units.

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Shopping/businesses
- Movement: role play a town or store
- You will create math problems to buy and sell supplies
- I Can understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from (Standard: K.OA.A.1)
- Read "At the Supermarket"
- Here's an example of kids role playing "store" together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRQ59cdd9iU

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Bake Sale for the Town
-You will follow a recipe or plan an event for the town
-You will use hands-on toys, measuring cups, fake/real food
-You all will be able to use pictures of food from magazines to represent the food on a plate, or use coloring tools to draw the food on the plate
-You will list the ingredients and the amount of each one you need on your recipe chart
-You all will share the food that you want to make for the bake sale and explain why you chose the food you did(relate it to your town)
-I Can utilize my understanding of fractions and measurements to create a food of my liking
-Interactive Video of a little girl making ice cream. Just an example for you to see how to put a recipe together and the importance of measurements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TiMhu7nDdU

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Skyscrapers/buildings

Standard: K.G.B.5

Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes

Read Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up - Sally M. Walker.

You will look at pictures of city buildings and build a building out of legos

I CAN model buildings from cities

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Population/Diversity
-Read Unique and Wonderful by Dee Smith
- Create graphs based on population data given to you by the teacher
- You will compare and contrast populations based on race
- I Can classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (K.MB.B.3)

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