February School

Family Farms
Discovery Time: classroom farmyard collage, mini farms
Circle Time: discussions of farms and farm animals around the world, including farm products such as milk, wool, eggs, and honey. Pick a class contribution to Heifer International
Small Group: subtracting by counting back and by using a number line, math workbooks, phonics listening practice and letter recognition, writing in journals.
Story: Beatrice's Goat, Until the Cows Come Home, Country Fair, In the Barn, Honeybees at Home

Next Week: The Earth Inside Out
Discovery Time: Earth layer mobiles, continents and oceans map, making metaphoric rock from bread and marshmallows, igneous rock from chocolate chips, sedimentary rock in a jar, making a crystal garden, sorting rocks by type.
Circle: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, types of rocks and their formation, continents and oceans
Small Group: Subtraction practice, math workbooks, phonics-initial consonants -m and -d, writing in journals
Story: What Under Your Feet? Earth's Story, Planet Earth: Inside and Out, Let's Go Rock Hunting, When You Find a Rock

A Rock'n and Round'n Crust
Discovery Time- Individual volcano models that really erupt, volcano painting, volcano "life cycle" strip poster, location fo the Ring of Fire on the globe and maps
Circle Time- Volcanos and earthquakes, film "Mountains of Fire"
Small Group: Subtraction number sentences, subtracting vertically, math workbooks, initial consonants -f and -g, writing in journals,
Story: Rocking and Rolling Volcanos! Mountains of Fire, How Mountains are Made, Magic School Bus Inside a Volcano, Rocks and Their Stories.