Theme 5 - Make Your Mark

Lesson 19 - Beaver's Green Treat
Little Rabbit's Tale
Grow, Apples, Grow!
Starfall - Double /ee/ in Pete's Sheep
Starfall - Double /ee/ Make a Picture
Wong Herbert Yee Official Website
Chicken Little Animated Story online - compare Little Rabbit to Chicken Little
Apples and More
National Geographic Beavers - Look for the yellow box that says "Multimedia" to hear a beaver and watch a great movie
Classroom Game Idea: Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore Game of Tag
Mrs. Smoke Created - What if the Sky Were Really Falling Writing Activity
   
Teacher Note: "Quack's Stuck Stick" is in your district content. It features beavers and how they build their dams. You will also find "Welcome to Beaver Dam" a short video on how beavers build dams and eat trees Teacher Note: "All Fall Down" is in your district content. In this Peep adventure, they believe the sky is falling and discuss Newton's law of falling apples. Teacher Note: A short 2 minute video entitled "Life Cycle of the Apple Tree" is in your district content. It's a perfect companion to your non-fiction reading selection.
Lesson 20 - Kids Play!
Ways People Live
Houses
Two Vowel Rule Video - Starfall
Reading Rainbow Student Created Story "The Penguin Who Tried to do Hopscotch"
Global Grover
Muffy's Wardrobe
Poet Aileen Fisher Webpage
Classroom Art Idea: Everyone Needs Shelter from Crayola
Classroom Idea: Have your own In Classroom Olympics with games around the world
Games Kids Play Around the World
What's the Weather?
A Year in the Life of a Tree
Other House Poems for Children
Another Excellent List of International Games for Kids
 
Writing Activity - Winter Seasonal Poem - This is a Kidspiration document. Each building has the program installed in one lab. Call Smoke for support - it's a great activity!
Teacher Note: A 44 second clip entitled "Physical Education" is in your district content. It features games students play in Ghana during PE class. Teacher Note: There are 5 different short videos featuring how people live in different parts of the world: Africa, Asia, England, South America, and Mexico in your district content.
Lesson 21 - The Missing Cake
Flake, the Missing Hamster
Three Reasons Why Pets Are Great
Starfall - Long /a/ Jake's Tale
Starfall Picture Hunt Long /a/
Stephen Krensky Author Homepage
Printable: Little Bill and the Best Pet Hamster Coloring Pages
Maya and Miguel Pet Shop Match Up
Between the Lions "How to be a Good Dog" - animated story featuring difficulties some have with pets
Classroom Idea: Using TUX Paint in your computer lab, design the cake you would want to eat. Print it off write why this cake is special.
Henrietta the Hamster - See how the happiest hamster in the world lives
 
Teacher Note: " Story of Read-Alee-Deed-Alee, The: Bake the Cake" is in your district content. It practices the long a-e patterns in reading.    
Lesson 22 - Mike and Spike Hike
We're Going on a Picnic!
Beaks Eat
Starfall Sky Ride - i-e patterns
Starfall Make a Word - Long /i/
Pat Hutchins Information with Color Photos
The Berenstain Pairs Pack a Picnic Interactive Game
Classroom Activity - Eat Like a Bird - Great Classroom learning experience on what beaks do what jobs
Teacher Link: Bird Beak Adaptations
   
Classroom Activity: Create a Pretend Picnic from PBS
Pack a Picnic Activity Page - Printable
Interactive Photos of Bird Beaks and the uses for each adaptation
Craft Idea - Enchanted Learning Bird Beak Craft
Teacher Note: "Henry Hikes to Fitchburg" is in your district content. It's a animated story.

Teacher Note: "Picnic" is in your district content. It's an animated story.
Also added to the district content is " You Can Solve a Problem " which discusses Problem-solution

Teacher Note: "Birds Have Beaks" is in your district content
Lesson 23 - Hang On, Rose!
On Saturday
The River City
Starfall - Long /o/ Robot and Mr. Mole
Make a Word Long /o/ - Starfall
Nina Crews Author Page
Class Art Idea - Create a Neighborhood Paper Quilt from Crayola
San Antonio River Walk Photo Gallery
San Antonio Zoo
Reading Rainbow Saturday Sancocho - Watch a video about trading items you don' t need for ones you do. Requires Real Player Download
The Trading Game - Interactive
Lesson 24 - What Is in the Hedge?
Mystery of the Night Song
Make some Music
-dge worksheet - printable is available for download. Click the blue links above the image
Trigraph -dge online interactive
Eloise Greenfield Biography
Can you identify these other night singers? Here's a hint - they are animals.
Dallas Symphony for Kids - Click around and discover all the different sounds instruments make
Make Your Own Musical Instrument Crafts
What Animals Live in a Hedge? Photos - scroll down
 
CSI: Squeak Sneak - See if you can solve this mystery from PBS
Teacher idea - Create your own mystery box with artifacts. Have the students use their senses to identify what mystery item is hidden in the box.
Video Clips of different instruments. Scroll down for a variety of options
Music Instrument Match Game
Interactive
 
Teacher Note: STOP, LOOK, LISTEN: Okey Cokey Karaoke!: Anansi, Cat and Rat. is in your district content. This short film looks at musical instruments and has sing-a-longs for the students.