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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 so many other things!  You can give an opinion by speaking what you think or how you feel.  You can...

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 eat.  They eat plants, berries and nuts.  These do not grow in the winter. How do you think animal...

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 look up at the sky, stars can look a little big like a diamond shape because of the way their light...

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.  Raise your hand if you have ever seen a constellation.