Chicken Soup With Rice Extension Activities

Mathematical Concepts: Understanding the calendar and months, creating a flow chart

SHARED READING

Recite the months of the year aloud in unison. Then, as you read the poem, ask children to anticipate which month comes next. Ask children to identify details in the poem that describe each month.
Reread the poem, letting children look more closely at the illustrations. Discuss each illustration and how it represents a stanza of the poem.

Cooperative Calendars

Let children learn about calendars by looking at old calendars and creating new ones. Tear the pages of an old calendar apart. Divide children into 12 groups and have each pick one of the old calendar pages. Have each group create a new calendar page for that month. Provide current calendars to assist students in correctly numbering the calendar squares.

Have students note special school days, holidays, birthdays, and so on. On the reverse of each calendar page, have students create art for the following month's calendar page (When the calendar is hung, the reverse of one calendar page becomes the art for the next page.) The group doing January will do two pieces of art—one for January and one for February. Put the pages together to make a new class calendar.

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Math Shop Spotlight: Weights & Measures

Develops essential skills: convert weeks and days to total days; divide dollars and cents by hourly rate for hours and minutes; adding unlike quantities (cups, pints and quarts); adding linear measures in meters, centimeters, feet and inches; multiply weights in pounds and ounces by whole numbers.

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Rainy Weather Days

by Pam Rosenberg

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4/1/07 Library Media Connection
This set of six titles provides beginning-to-intermediate readers with clear, concise information about each type of weather and what happens on days when there is that type of weather. With a "word hunt" section at the beginning of each book, the reader automatically has a purpose for reading. Words in that section are bolded throughout the book and most include pictorial examples. Large, easy-to-read print, bright borders and ph

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ARTICLE	Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere Take them off the front porch and put them to work in the classroom! Creative ways to use pumpkins in every subject.

LESSON PLAN	Tracking Temperature Students listen to readings and learn to chart winter temperatures on paper thermometers.

UNIT PLAN	Clifford Learns About the Four Seasons and So Do We! Shows teachers creative strategies for teaching students the seasons and months of the year. The approach spans all subjects and centers on identification,...