We love to celebrate snowpeople. We use the book Stranger in the Woods. It is a great photo essay. We also watch the video of The Snowman by Briggs. Lots of inferring. And there is a Santa in that video.
enjoy, On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Susan Joyce <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have used the book SnowFlakeBentley, the person who first photographed > snowflakes, Wilson Bentley: snowflakebentley.com ; > http://www.bentley.sciencebuff.org/index.htm along with these sites there > is another one called snowcrystals.com that actually shows a short video > clip of snow crystals forming along with a series of photographs of snow > crystals-very cool! This is a great lesson that incorporates science, > non-fiction reading, art etc. > My kids (6th and 7th graders) found this very interesting. A great way to > celebrate the season without using religion. The Read Write Think site also > has a lesson plan to for SnowFlake Bentley. > Susan > ; > > -----Original Message----- > >From: reading <[email protected]> > >Sent: Dec 3, 2009 12:24 PM > >To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" < > [email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] (no subject) > > > >I suppose grade level would be important to know :) I'm teaching 7th > >grade... I love Jan Brett's books but don't know how well that would go > >over. > > > >On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Renee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> On Dec 2, 2009, at 7:43 PM, reading wrote: > >> > >> Does anyone have any good lessons/activities to use the week before > winter > >>> break? We're finishing up a unit soon and it'd be nice to have > something > >>> light and timely for the few days before break begins. > >>> > >> > >> I don't know what grade you are talking about but one year with my > >> Kindergartners I read aloud five different Christmas or winter-oriented > >> books by Jan Brett and then we made a graph showing which was our > >> favorite.... one person, one vote. It was a bar graph; each child got a > >> square to add to the bar under a picture of the book they liked best. > >> > >> Have them paint (or draw) a picture of their family at Christmas and > write > >> about it. > >> > >> Renee > >> > >> "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that > matter." > >> ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mosaic mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > >> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org > . > >> > >> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >Mosaic mailing list > >[email protected] > >To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > >http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > > >Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
