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Snow Committees January Week 2

Grade Level:
K
Subject:
Language Arts
Topic:
Snow Themed Committees for Week 2 of January
Objective:
Students will be able to integrate information from the two texts presented to the whole group to determine weather conditions necessary for the existence of snow. Identify the elements of a snowflake.

Students will follow sequential steps and instruction to produce a hole punched and "sewn" mitten, to use pictures of the story book characters for retelling the sequence of events in the story, "The Mitten", by Jan Brett.

Students will count forward using a given number to fill in a calendar for the Month of January, and graphing numbers of items for comparing and contrasting and working with the concept of more than and less than.
Other Information:
Materials and plans used in this lesson can be viewed at ReadWorks.org: file:///Users/e138157/Desktop/Kindergarten%20Reading%20Paired%20Text%20Questions,%20Standards%20Alignment,%20Worksheets,%20Activities.webarchive

Other materials have been attached to this lesson plan or are teacher generated and hard copies will be provided.
Prep:
Set up four committee boxes with supplies for each project.
Pull all books and materials before hand.
Prepare pancake making station in kitchen to be supervised directly by teacher or EA.
Materials:
ReadWorks.org "Snow Science" & The Snowy Day lesson plan and materials.
The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
Book of snowflake photographs


Snowflakes book to go with the cutting snowflakes committee
Copies of snowflake templates
Scissors, glue stick, light blue paper for mounting

Copies of mittens and story book characters, hole punches, yarn, scissors.

Copies of the January Graph and Calendar, pencils, crayons.
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