Let's Have a Parade

Cyberschool: Cyberschool Units: Summer June/July Calendar

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Lets Have a Parade by Jeffrey Victor	Read Let's Have a Parade Begin work on Parade Banner Make queen's float Decorate wagon Decorate trike Assign parts for parade	Read Let's Have a Parade Make Betsy Ross' Flag Flag Counting Worksheet Color flag	Color flags for parade Make hats for parade Make Betsy Ross 'flag Flag Counting Worksheet Practice with rhythm instruments	Make hats: Uncle Sam, Statute of Liberty, Crown My hat has three corners finger play	Parade Day
Bird Unit	Crow Read: When Agnes Caws by Candace Fleming As the Crow Flies - Aesops Fable about the Crow and the Pitcher The Crotchety Crow	Blue Bird Four Little Blue Birds Egg Counting	Robin Robin Red Breast Read Welcome, Brown Bird by Mary Lyn Ray Egg Counting	Bat Read Stellaluna by Janell Cannon Make birds nest treats	Owl Read Good Night Owl by Pat Hutchins or Owls by Gail Gibbons> Wise Ole Owl Make birds nest treats Make pine cone bird feeder.
Math Science Unit	Graphing unit Read Jump, Frog, Jump by Robert Kalan Frog graphing	Float / Sink Activity Float sink worksheet Our magnetic world Magnetic worksheet activity	Standard and non-standard measurement Read Inch by Inch by Leo Leonni Unifix worksheet Inch worm worksheet Ruler worksheet.	Use of balance scales Balance scale worksheets See-saw at the park.	Hot and Cold Freeze ice cream for snack

Let's Have a Parade Unit

To begin the Let's Have a Parade Unit we prepare the room with a parade banner on the wall outside the classroom door. Inside we place red, white, and blue themed objects around the room and on the bulletin board. The number of days allotted to the unit depends on the size of the group that will be participating. This unit can be done with a single class or with all three and four classes in the school. The more involved, the more preparation required to have jobs for each child in the parade.

Participants can fill the roles of the parade queen, Uncle Sam, the Statute of Liberty, girl throwing candy to crowd, drummer and/or band members, military units, cowboys riding stick horses, tricycles decorated with red white and blue balloons and crepe paper streamers, and floats using wagons. Children not riding trikes, pulling wagons etc can carry musical instrument used in the music program. You can also use ready made costumes, props etc.

On first day of unit we assign parts and have kids bring costumes and props for their part on Friday. Students who were not assigned a particular part were to wear red white and blue. At our school only the fours took part in the parade. Parade was scheduled to take place just before parents picked students up from school.

Hat patterns for Uncle Sam and The Statute of Liberty are found http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/chair/theme/rwb/rwb_hats.htm

Bird Unit

We hang a hummingbird feeder outside the classroom window at the beginning of the bird unit. Since it may take a few hours for hummingbird to find feeder we do this on the weekend before fist class of the week.

This unit can easily be expanded to include

Aquatic birds
Birds of prey
Symbolic Birds (American Eagle, Turkey etc)
State Birds

Math Science Unit

The firs day of the Math Science Unit we bring in a grow a frog into the classroom. This goes along with our story and math work for the day. You would need to order your frog in advance or collect a frog from your yard.