After learning about a specific national symbol, each student will create one section of a classroom quilt that will be tied together.

After reading the story "The Little House", students will discuss changing patterns and then create a seasonal mandala.

After reading Carol A. Johnson's book titled "Family", students will create a classroom graph of their family members.

After reading Leo Lionni's story titled "Frederick", students will illustrate a scene from the story.

During the class' plant unit, students will observe a plant and write and illustrate what they have learned in their discovery journal.

Using the interactive writing procedures, students will write sentences and illustrate ways seeds travel.

Students will create a map of their classroom that can be used to find a hidden treasure. The concept of two-dimensional objects and three-dimensional objects will be explored during this activity.

During this activity students will become familiar with a variety of directional words such as North, South, East, West, up, down, etc.

After reading stories about relationships, students will record their thoughts using a "Before" and "After" organizer.

Students will use letters to make several short words. The words being constructed will be in word families and discussion should occur over chunks and letter patterns. At the culmination of the activity, all letters will be used to make one word.

This lesson takes a closer look at character, tapping into what a character thinks, says, feels, does, and tries, as well as his or her strengths and weaknesses. Students will use what they read to analyze the character in the story.

Students will create thought bubbles for either the brother or the sister from Patricia Polacco's story "My Rotten, Red-Headed, Older Brother".

Dr. Seuss' story "Horton Hears a Who" is used in this lesson to prompt a discussion about communities and cooperation.

Students will select four characters from familiar books and determine if they have healthy or unhealthy characteristics.

Students will sort breakfast food items into sources: store, factory, natural world, and farm.

After reading Joan Sweeney's book "Me On the Map", students will create a map of their bedroom and of their house.

Playing the World Game will make students more familiar with continents, oceans, countries and states.

Students will select four characters from familiar books and determine if they have healthy or unhealthy characteristics.  They will use graphs to show information about which book characters are voted as the best friend.