1st+Grade

**LESSON AND PROJECT ACTIVITIES (numbers correspond with list of 21st Century Skills)**
1. 2. > Write about the plot, character and setting of story that has been read together with classmate, read independently or read with adult 3
 * Classroom emphasis on God-pleasing technology use
 * Special item talk: Sharing and opinion
 * Art cross-discipline study with science on the Giant Panda - viewing baby panda at San Diego Zoo: []
 * Skype with a Missionary >
 * Summarize a story
 * Draw a picture of favorite part of story and write sentences about it
 * Podcast question for Lutheran Schools Week: "I love Shepherd of the Hills because ___"
 * Special item talk: Sharing and opinion
 * Poetry Book
 * Student of the Day
 * Meteorologist
 * Calendar
 * Counter
 * Spanish Food: Fruit
 * Discussion of Panda Stories
 * Discussion of stories
 * Spanish: how to make a snowman
 * Writing about Pandas
 * What is Wind? Make a wind vane using toothpick, straw, and paper triangle. Experiment with wind vane inside near heating vents, blowing, and outdoors.
 * Skype with a Missionary
 * Spelling Bee

4. 5.
 * Writing Topic Sentences and detail sentences
 * Writing more interesting sentences by changing adverbs and adjectives to synonyms and antonyms
 * Spanish Food: Fruit
 * Writing about Pandas
 * Spanish: how to make a snowman
 * Veterans Day Letters
 * Write and illustrate a story/poem with another student based on given topic
 * Spanish Food: Fruit
 * Team-play Smithsonian Institute's "Pandamania" Game about Giant Pandas' diet, along with sampling what they eat: sweet potato, apples, pears and honey.
 * Spanish: how to make a snowman

6.
 * Sketching the Giant Panda then coloring in oil pastel

7.
 * Thinking Things 3: Software problem-solving
 * Study of Plants-Kid Pics, journal writing, field trip
 * WInd vane experiment - Make a wind vane using a toothpick, straw, and triangle paper. Experiment near heat vent, blowing, and outside.


 * Glossary and Dictionary Skills
 * Native American Activities
 * Panda Example/Panda Paperplate Kit

8.
 * Identify earth,continent,country,state, city, community, neighborhood: differences/likenesses
 * Martin Luther King/Black History: Peace in the world and community, race relations
 * Discuss Giant Panda habitat and environmental impact


 * Read Biographies of famous Americans and make an auto-biography and timeline of self
 * Spanish Food: Fruit
 * Spanish: how to make a snowman
 * Skype with a Missionary