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 <readingwritingliter...@gmail.com> >Sent: Dec 3, 2009 12:24 PM >To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" ><mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> >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 <phoenix...@sbcglobal.net> 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 >> Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org >> 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 >Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org >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 Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org 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.
