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Main: Say: Sharing information that we know or have learned can be exciting.  Learning something new is fun and it is just as much fun to share with someone. Many times, we speak to someone to tell them what we have learned.  That is a great way to share because the person can ask questions to find out more information. Writing is also a good way to share what you have learned.  When you are writing about information that you have learned, it is important to include as much information as yo...

Say: What do you like to do when it snows?  If you have never seen or been in snow, what do you think you would like to do?  (Allow the students to answer.) Main: Say: There are so many different things to do in the snow.  You can have a snowball fight, go sledding, build snowmen or even just go for a walk in the snowy woods.  Look at the snow covering the trees and bushes is beautiful.  Do you know what snow is?  (Allow the students to answer.) Snow is tiny ice crystals.  Each snowflake...

Main: Say: We add numbers so that we can figure out how many of something we have.  If we did not add numbers, we would end up counting a lot.  For example, instead of adding 2 pieces of candy to 4 pieces of candy and getting 6, you would have to count every piece of candy.  (Write this problem on the board- 2 + 4 =6.  You can use your fingers to show them adding.) When figuring out an addition problem, it is a good idea to draw a picture to help you.  If you were adding 1 + 2, you could d...

Main: Say: Snowflakes fall from the clouds when it is cold outside.  Snowflakes can be very big or very small. Snowflakes all look different.  They all have the same number of sides, but every snowflake has a different pattern.  Raise your hand if you have ever looked closely at snowflakes as they were falling on your coat or glove.  What did you see?  (Allow the students to answer.) Sometimes, snowflakes fall apart of stick together as they are falling from the clouds.  This may be why s...

Main: Say: Hibernation is when animals go into a deep sleep.  Some animals barely breathe and the temperature of their body gets very cold.  Why do you think animals hibernate?  (Allow the students to answer.) Animals hibernate so that they do not have to be outside in the winter.  Many animals that hibernate find a place to curl up and they hibernate all winter!  Other animals only hibernate for a few months and then wake up. When an animal is done hibernating, they start breathing normal...

Say: Do you think it would be fun to hibernate?  Why or why not?  (Allow the students to answer.) Main: Say: You just gave or thought about your opinion about whether it would be fun to hibernate.  Giving an opinion means you are telling someone what you think or how you feel about something else. Giving an opinion is something that people do all of the time.  People give their opinion about what food they want to eat, what they want to do, who they want to see, what they want to read and s...

Main: Say: Animals hibernate so that they can survive the winter.  Animals hibernate when the weather gets very cold. The animals that hibernate would not be able to find food during the winter.  So, instead of not being able to find food and being hungry, they hibernate. Mammals such as bears, chipmunks, bats and groundhogs hibernate.  Other animals such as frogs, snakes, bees, lizards, snails and fish all hibernate. It would be very hard for all of these animals to find the food that they ...

Lesson Objective: To write a narrative about star gazing. Write about a time that you looked at stars.

Main: There is so much to know about stars!  We all know the rhyme “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.  Twinkle, twinkle, little star.  How I wonder what you are.  Up above the world so high.  Like a diamond in the sky.  Twinkle, twinkle, little star.  How I wonder what you are.” Today, we are going to be learning more about what stars are.  Do you think that stars are diamonds?  (Allow the students to answer.) Stars are not diamonds or even the shape of a diamond.  Sometimes when you...

Main: Say: Looking at stars at night can be so much fun.  Some of you have gone outside and laid in the grass to look at the stars.  Some of you have seen stars from the car while you were driving or from the windows of your home. People have been looking at stars for a very long time.  Hundreds of years ago, people looked at the stars and saw shapes, people or animals.  They named what they were seeing.  Groups of stars that look like people, animals or shapes are called constellations. ...