Lesson: Birds
Lesson:
1.
Birds are animals that have wings which they use to fly.
What do birds use to fly? Wings or fingers
2.
Birds come from eggs. Where do birds come from?
Stones or eggs
3.
Birds lay their eggs in nests. Where do birds lay their eggs?
In water or in a nest
4.
Birds have beaks in the front of their faces instead of a nose.
What do birds have in front of their faces? A nose or a beak
5.
Birds don’t have teeth. Do birds have teeth? Yes or no
6.
Birds like to eat worms and bugs. What do birds like to eat?
Bugs or rugs
7.
There are many different kinds of birds. Robins, woodpeckers,
cardinals and parrots are all different birds. Which one is a bird?
A cardinal or a priest
Worksheet:
Birds use ___ to fly. They come from ___ laid in a ___. Birds have ___
on their faces and no ___ in them. Birds like to eat ___. A ___ is a kind
of bird.
provided by parent volunteer Virginia Breen • April 2005
Lesson: Garden
Lesson:
1. It is fun to grow flowers and vegetables in a garden. We have
a garden in our backyard. What do you grow in a garden?
Vegetables or meat?
2. You need to have good, dark dirt in a garden. Another name for
dirt is soil. What is another name for dirt? Stones or soil?
3. The first thing that you do to plant a garden is to rake the soil.
What is the first thing that you do? Rake or shake the soil?
4. Next, you plant the seeds in the soil and cover them up. What do
you do next? Plant the seeds or plant the weeds?
5. After the plants grow, vegetable appear. When they get ripe, we
pick them. For a tomato, being ripe means that it has turned red.
When do we pick the vegetables? When they get ripe or get hot?
6. We eat the vegetable because they help us to stay healthy. Why do
we eat vegetables? Because they make us sick or healthy?
Worksheet:
____ grow in a garden. First, you ___ the ___. Then you plant
the ____. You pick the vegetables when they are ___. Eating
vegetables makes you ____.
provided by parent volunteer Virginia Breen • April 2005
Lesson: Planets
Lesson:
1. There are nine planets in our solar system. How many planets are
there? Three or nine
2. We live on planet Earth. What planet do we live on? Saturn or
Earth
3. Some of the other planets are Mars, Saturn and Venus. What is the
name of a planet? Mars or Curt
4. All of the planets circle around the sun. What do the planets
revolve around? The sun or the spaceship
5. The sun is a star that is closest to Earth. What is the sun? A planet
or a star
6. The moon circles around the Earth. What circles around the Earth?
Moon or star
Worksheet:
There are ___ planets in our solar system. We live on ____.
Another planet is called ____. All the planets circle the ____.
The sun is a close ____. The ____ circles around the Earth.
provided by parent volunteer Virginia Breen • April 2005
Lesson: Rhyming words
Lesson:
1. Words that rhyme have the same sound at the end. Hat and cat are
rhyming words. Do rhyming words have the same sound in the
beginning or end?
2. Rhyming words are used in poetry. An example of poetry is:
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle
Rhyming words are used in fiction or poetry?
3. Fish rhymes with dish. What rhymes with fish? Dish or plate?
4. Love rhymes with dove. What rhymes with love? Lead or dove?
5. Matter rhymes with chatter. What rhymes with matter? Monster
or chatter?
6. Girl rhymes with swirl. What rhymes with girl? Swirl or swell?
Worksheet:
Rhyming words sound the same at the ____.
Fish rhymes with ____.
Love rhymes with ____.
Matter rhymes with ____.
Girl rhymes with ____.
____ rhymes with ____.
provided by parent volunteer Virginia Breen • April 2005
Lesson: Plurals
[write down all the examples to show student as you are saying them]
1. When you have more than one of something you need to write it
as a plural. For example, 1 cat and 2 cats. 1 horse and 2 horses.
What is it called if you have two of something? Mural or plural?
2. Most words that you make plural, you simply add an “s” to the end
of it, such as 1 hat and 2 hats. 1 dog and 2 dogs. What do you add
to most words to make them plural? An S or a Z?
3. Let’s practice this. 1 lamp and 2 lamps. 1 leg and 2 legs. 1 hand
and 2 hands. Is it 2 lamp or 2 lamps?
4. For words that end in X, SH and CH, you need to add “es” to make
it plural. For example, 1 fox and 2 foxes. 1 dish and 2 dishes. 1
church and 2 churches. Is it 2 foxs or 2 foxes?
5. And some words don’t change at all when you make them plural.
These are called irregular plurals. An example is 1 fish and 2 fish.
1 deer and 2 deer. Is it 2 fishes or 2 fish?
Worksheet:
Let’s do plurals of the following words:
Cat
Deer
Church
Fish
Fox
Dog
Dish
provided by parent volunteer Virginia Breen • April 2005
Lesson: Punctuation
1. A punctuation mark is what goes at the end of a sentence. [Draw
each as you say it.] A period (.) question mark (?) and exclamation
point (!) can be at the end of a sentence. What is at the end of a
sentence? A punctuation mark or a computer mark?
2. In a regular sentence, you end it with a period. For example:
The girl kicked the ball. [Say “period”] What goes at the end of
regular sentences? A popular or a period?
3. If the sentence is a question, a question mark goes at the end. Did
the girl kick the ball? [Say “question mark”] What goes at the end
of a question? A period or a question mark?
4. If a sentence is a command or said loudly, it ends with an
exclamation point. An example is: Come here right now! [Say
“exclamation point’] What goes at the end of a command? A
period or an exclamation point?
Worksheet:
Let’s practice putting the punctuation marks at the end of these
sentences:
Is it raining outside
The boy ran fast
Hurray up, Spot
The house is red
Is the house red
Are you hungry
What a beautiful day
provided by parent volunteer Virginia Breen • April 2005
Lesson: Statue of Liberty
1. A statue of a lady stands in the New York Harbor. She is called
the Statue of Liberty. Did I say the Statue of Liberty or the field
of flowers?
2. Liberty means freedom all over the world. Did I say liberty means
slavery or freedom?
3. People all over the world dreamed of coming to America to find
freedom. Did they want to come to America or England?
4. Many people came by ship to America. Sometimes the trip took
many days. Did the trip take many parties or days?
5. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France. Was it
a gift from France or Rome?
6. Today, more than one hundred years later the Statue of Liberty
still welcomes people to the home of the free. Did I say the home
of the yankees or the free?
Worksheet:
The _________stands in the New York Harbor. Liberty means___
__? People came to _____ to find freedom. The people of _____
gave America the Statue of Liberty. America is known as the home
of the ______?
.
provided by parent volunteer Virginia Breen • April 2005
Lesson: School
Lesson:
1. We are going to talk about school. School is a place you go to
learn. Did I say you go to learn or play?
2. The person who runs the classroom is called the teacher. Are
they called the people or the teacher?
3. The other children in the class are called our classmates. Are
they our classmates or closets?
4. In school we learn many different subjects, math, spelling, and
social studies are only a few. Did I say we learn one subject or
many subjects?
5. School is also a place to make friends and be with other children
our age. Did I say we make friends or enemies?
Worksheet:
We_____ at school. The _______ runs the class. The other
children are our____. We learn___ different subjects. We make
___ with children our own age at school.
provided by parent volunteer Virginia Breen • April 2005
Lesson: Dinosaurs [Try to have a dinosaur book to show pictures]
1. Let’s learn about dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are big animals that lived
millions of years ago. Dinosaurs were reptiles like snakes and
lizards. What group did reptile belong to? Reptiles or mammals?
2. Reptiles are cold-blooded which means that their bodies change
temperature with the outside temperature. Are reptiles warmblooded or cold-blooded?
3. Reptiles are like fish in that they have scales. Reptiles don’t have
skin; they have scales on their bodies. Do reptiles have scales or
skin?
4. Dinosaurs are no longer found on the earth. Another name for this is
that they are extinct. Are dinosaurs still on the earth today? Yes or
no.
5. We learn about dinosaurs from their remains left in rocks and ice
which are called fossils? What are dinosaur remains called? Fossils
or rocks.
6. From the fossils we learn about the size and shape of the dinosaurs’
bodies. What do we learn from dinosaur fossils? Their color or
size?
7. We also learn about the food that they ate. Some ate plants and some
ate meat. What else do we learn from the dinosaur fossils? What
they smelled like or what they ate?
Worksheet:
Dinosaurs are _____. They are ____ and have ____. They are ____
_. We look at ____ to know that they were ___ and what they ____.
provided by parent volunteer Virginia Breen • April 2005