Kindergarten  / 5th Six Weeks

Overarching Concept: Diversity

Organizing Idea: What's Alike? What's Different?

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Unit Contents

Students explore the diversity in animals, plants, objects, and people. By comparing and contrasting the live plants and animals with models students identify the criteria for living and nonliving things. Students discover the diversity of animal homes and habitats and create an animal with its habitat.

Activities

Alike and Different Part 1- by Brenda McElyea
Students explore the concepts of sameness and uniqueness.

Alike and Different Part 2 - by Brenda McElyea
Students explore how books are alike and different.

April Fools!: - by Kelly Hamilton
Sequence, Main Idea, Characters, Parts of a Book

Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights:  - by Kelly Hamilton
Nonfiction, Describing Words

Poetry Month:  - Kelly Hamilton
Sequence, Drawing Conclusions

Sweet Dreams / Sweet Sleep - by Mary Elam
To increase understanding of health/science concepts with the use of fiction and nonfiction.

There's a Square:  - Kelly Hamilton
Learning To Use the Library Web Page

Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens:  - by Kelly Hamilton
Story Elements, Compare & Contrast

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