Transcript Project Connection

Stations
September 19 - 23
Project #3: No Place Like Home
 Students will survey parents, classmates,
Project Topics
What makes our community
unique?
Geography
Map Skills
Writing Letters
Compare and Contrast
Creating a Podcast
and our community to identify 7 wonders
of Columbus. Each group will research
their wonder to persuade a visitor to the
Columbus area to visit their wonder. All
the wonders will be recorded to create a
podcast about Columbus, Indiana. To
compare other communities, students
will read Flat Stanley and write letters to
family friends in other parts of the
country or world. We will mark on a map
where we get our return letters from to
introduce geography and map skills.
Reading Connections
 Flat Stanley
Standards & Skills
3.2.3,3.2.4
Making Predictions
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Noise Level 2
Monday – Friday
Read Flat Stanley with your reading group.
Thursday - Friday
Thinking Map to compare and contrast what Flat Stanley has been
Materials Needed
oFlat Stanley Book
oThinking Map
Project Connection
Seven Wonders of
Columbus
doing in our story.
Writing
Noise Level 0-1
Standards & Skills
3.5.3
6 +1 Traits:
Organization and
Conventions
Materials Needed
oComputers
Project Connection
Seven Wonders of
Columbus
Monday - Tuesday
Write a letter to your book buddy. Be sure to tell them
about yourself and ask them several questions too.
Wednesday
Publish letter to book buddy.
Thursday - Friday
Begin writing your letter to the first person your Flat Stanley
is going to visit. Be sure to include what you want the
person to do with your Flat Stanley while he is visiting.
Working with Words
Noise Level 1
Standards & Skills
3.6.8, 3.7.9
Fluency
Vocabulary
Spelling Patterns
Monday
BANG! Spelling Game
Materials Needed
oVocabulary Activity
oFluency passage
oComputers
oBoard Games
Wednesday
Poetry fluency passage. Read two times on your
own then read into audacity. Listen to your
recording before reading again into audacity.
Project Connection
Seven Wonders of
Columbus
Tuesday
-oi/-oy board game
Thursday
Spelling City OR oi/oy Sandcastle Activity
Friday
Spelling Test
Math Skill Reinforcement
Standards & Skills
3.1.3, 3.3.3
Number Stories
Algorithms
Finding Differences
and Sums
Materials Needed
o100s chart
oMath Notebook
oDice
oBase 10 Blocks
oStudent Reference Book
Project Connection
Seven Wonders of
Columbus
Noise Level 1
Monday
Changing the Calculator Display - Use a 100s chart to
complete the changes. When finished play number grid
Difference, record your answers in your math notebook.
Tuesday
Comparing Numbers
Wednesday
Use Student Reference Book pages 224 and 225 to add up
distances between cities. Use pg 53 as your answer sheet.
Thursday
Play 3 digit Base 10 Trading Game with a partner
Friday
Pre Assessment over 2.9
Math Journal
Noise Level 0-1
Standards & Skills
3.1.3, 3.3.3
Number Stories
Algorithms
Finding Differences and
Sums
Materials Needed
oVolume 1 Journal
oPencil
Project Connection
Seven Wonders of
Columbus
Monday
2.5 Change Number Stories
Journal pg 40 and pg 41
Tuesday
2.6 Comparison Number Stories
Journal pg 42 and pg 44
Wednesday
The Partial Sums Algorithm
2.7 Journal pg 45 and pg 46
Thursday
Subtraction Algorithms
2.8 Journal pg 49 and 50
Friday
Corrections to quiz
Interwrite Activity/FastMath practice
Noise Level 1
Standards & Skills
3.1.3, 3.3.3
Addition and
Subtraction Algorithms
Finding Differences
Materials Needed
o Interwrite board
oLaptops
Project Connection
Seven Wonders of
Columbus
Monday
Interwrite – Funbrain MathCar Racing
Laptop – Internet 4 Classrooms – Number Families
Tuesday
Interwrite – Funbrain MathCar Racing
Laptop – Internet 4 Classrooms – Number Families
Wednesday
Interwrite – Funbrain Math Baseball
Laptop – Subtraction Top It
Thursday
Quiz 2.4 - 2.6
Friday
Interwrite – Funbrain Math Baseball
Laptop – Subtraction Top-It