N is for Natives

Native Americans

Math

Canoe Floating Chart – After making the foam canoes but before floating them we will make a chart to show how many students think that their canoes will sink, and how many think they will float.

Native American Addition Sheets

Science

Foam Canoe – Each student will make a canoe using foam and yarn. Once we have made our canoes we will see if they sink or float.

Language Arts

The Letter “N” – Our letter this week is “N”. We will be practicing writing this letter as well as recognizing and thinking of words that begin with the letter “N”.

Native American Vocabulary – Each student will his or her own Native American vocabulary sheet where they will write in the new Native American vocabulary words that we learn

Social Studies

Teepee – We will discuss the way Native Americans lived and build our own miniature teepees.

Music

10 Little Indians

Art

Dream Catcher – Students will make his or her very own dream catcher to take home with them.

More on Money

Here are the kids shopping in our store with money. There were many items to purchase each costing either a quarter, dime, nickle, or penny. Students had to figure out what items they could buy with the money they had and go to Ms. Cindy for checkout.
On Tuesday we did our penny cleaning experiment using water, soda, and vinegar to determine what agent will clean the pennies best.

M is for Money

Money

Math

United States Coins Sequencing Cards – Students will decorate and cut out their cards and then pair up with a partner and work together to put the cards in order of value.

Counting Coins Activity Book – Students will learn the value of the coins as well as how to tally up total values in order to get the sum of various coins.

Open Shop – We will have a shop set up in class with a cash register and all. Students will use real coins to purchase items in the shop by figuring out how to create the correct amount of money with they coins they have. When we are all finish students will get to keep the items that they bought.

Social Studies

Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin – Who is on the penny? That’s right, Abe Lincoln. We will be making a log cabin with a picture of Abe in the window via penny.

Language Arts

Carl Goes Shopping by Alexandra Day

Arthur's Pet Business by Marc Brown

A Quarter From The Tooth Fairy by Caren Holtzman

Science

Vinegar Pennies – There are so many old and ugly pennies, but we want to make them shinny like new. We will soak our pennies in vinegar, soda, and water to see which one is the best cleaning agent. Before we get started we will make a graph of predictions for the best cleaning agent.

Art

United States Coins Coloring Sheet – Students will color a page for each coin as we discuss the coins value.

More on Library

We made Oobleck. Unfortunately I could not take pictures of the kids making the Oobleck because my hands were covered in green slime, but I got a picture of the end result after we were all cleaned up.