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Fourth Nine Weeks

                              Back to Top   Language Arts    

                            Back to Lang. Arts UBD Reading Lessons

Genre: Narrative

not in italics- listed on COL

italics- my suggestions

Week 1

Day 1- alliteration

*  Abecedario de los animales- Ada- audiocassette/book listening center KIT

* El Alfabeto- 421 ALF

Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut - Atwood

* Animalia- Base- E BAS

* A: My Name is Alice- Bayer- 398.2 BAY

* Santa's Short Suit Shrunk and Other Christmas Tongue Twisters - Buck- 818 BUC

* The Teeny Tiny Teacher- Camelson- 398.209 CAL- located in fairy tale section

* Six Sick Sheep: 101 Tongue Twisters- Cole - 818 COL

* Las letras hablan - R. Cruz-Contarini- 461 CRU

The Absolutely Awful Alphabet- Gerstein

Six Sleepy Sheep- Gordon

* Charlie Needs a Cloak- DePaola- located on the Click, Clack Moo DVD - located w/ 4th gr. UBD bks

Alligators Arrived with Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast- Dragonwagon

Calico Cow- Dybanevich

* Some Smug Slug- Edwards- E EDW

* Clara the Caterpillar- Edwards- E EDW

* Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke- Edwards- E EDW

The Worrywarts- Edwards

* Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z- Ehlert- 412 EHL

* Aurora, Brigida, y Carlos- Fuertes- E FUE

Six Sleepy Sheep- Gordon

Watch William Walk- Jonas

The Weighty Word Book- Levitt

Allison's Zinnia- Lobel

Five Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish- Obligado

 * Psst! It's Me, the Bogeyman- Parks- E PAR

An Amazing Alphabet - Patience

Piggy in the Puddle- Pomerantz

* Dig, Wait, Listen: A Desert Toad's Tale - Sayre- E SAY

* Busy Buzzing Bumblebees and Other Tongue Twisters - Schwartz- 818 SCH

* Dr. Seuss' ABC- Seuss- E SEU

* Sheep in a Shop-  Shaw- E SHA

* Sylvester and the Magic Pebble- Steig - E STE

* Sylvester and the Magic Pebble- Steig- videorecording (VHS)

* Silvestre y la piedrecita magica- Steig- E STE

The Toy Brother- Steig

Roland the Minstrel Pig - Steig

Thank You for the Thistle- Thurman

* The Z was Zapped- van Allsburg- E VAN

* June 29, 1999- Wiesner- E WIE

Day 2 - idioms

* Parts- Arnold- E ARN

* More Parts- Arnold- E ARN

* Even More Parts- Arnold- E ARN

* Arthur in a Pickle- Brown- E BRO

Dumb Bunnies- Denim

* A Chocolate Moose for Dinner (2 paperbacks) Gwynne- 428.1 GWY

Theres' a Frog in My Throat!- Leedy

* Batter Up, Wombat- Lester- E LES

It's Raining Pigs and Noodles- Prelutsky

* Amelia Bedelia- Parish- E PAR

* Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)- Parish- E PAR

* Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor- Parish- E PAR

* Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm- Parish- E PAR

* Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia- Parish- E PAR

* Thank You, Amelia Bedelia- Parish- E PAR

* The Big Orange Splot- Pinkwater- E PIN- located w/ 4th Grade UBD books

Super Silly Sayings: A Children's Illustrated Book of Idioms- Snodgrass

* Saving Sweetness- Stanley- E STA

* Raising Sweetness- Stanley- E STA

Amy's Award * Ve Lo Que Dices/See What You Say-(2 copies) Taylor- 428.2 TAY

* Mad as a Wet Hen! and Other Funny Idioms- Terban- 428.1 TER

* Punching the Clock: Funny Action Idioms- Terban- 428.1 TER

In a Pickle and Other Funny Idioms- Terban

* The Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms - (2 copies) 428.1 TER

Monkey Business: Fun with Idioms- Turhan, Hambleton, Tullet

*  World Almanac for Kids- 031.02 WOR

Day 3 - use senses to create mental images

(visualization)

* The Aminal- Balian- E BAL

* Counting on Frank- Clement- 513.5 CLE

* Just Another Ordinary Day- Clement- E CLE

*  My Working Mom - Glassman- E GLA

Day 4- main idea

Day 5- questioning

* The Grouchy Ladybug (2 copies)- Carle- E CAR

* La mariquita malhumorada- Carle- E CAR

Week 2

Day 6- contractions

* Alan Apostrophe- Cooper- E COO

* Alfie the Apostrophe- M. Rose Donohue- E DON

Day 7 - synonyms

* Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What is a Synonym? Cleary- 428.1 CLE

Day 8- plot/theme

*   Goldilocks and the Three Bears -see fairy tales section

* Amazing Grace- (2 copies)Hoffman- E HOF

* Boundless Grace(2 copies)- Hoffman- E HOF

* Graciela Asombroso- Hoffman - E HOF

Day 9 - punctuation marks

* Alan Apostrophe- Cooper- E COO

* Peter Period- Cooper- E COO

* Quincy Question Mark- Cooper- E COO

* Punctuation Takes a Vacation- Pulver- E PUL

Day 10- narrative: character

Week 3

Day 11- dedication pages

* Las pinturas de Willy- Browne- E BRO

* Biscuit- Capucilli- E CAP

* Bizcocho- Capucilli- E CAP

* Bathtime for Biscuit (2 copies)- Capucilli- E CAP

* Biscuit's Big Friend- Capucilli- E CAP

* Biscuit Goes to School- Capucilli- E CAP

*  Biscuit's New Trick- Capucilli- E CAP

* El libro apestoso- Cole- E COL

* Freight Train/Tren de carga- Crews- E CRE

Jamberry- Degen- E DEG

* On the Day You Were Born- Frasier- E FRA, 508 FRA

* Bread and Jam for Frances- Hoban- E HOB

From MY Father's Hands- Ryder

* David Gets Into Trouble- Shannon- E SHA - located w/ kinder UBD books

* David se mete en líos- Shannon- E SHA- located w/ kinder UBD books

Day 12- about the author

Day 13- author study

Day 14- prediction vs. inference

* The Napping House- Wood- E WOO

* La casa adormecida- Wood- E WOO

Day 15- drawing conclusions

* The Napping House- Wood- E WOO

* La casa adormecida- Wood- E WOO

Week 3

Day 16- predicting outcomes

Day 17- patterns/chunks

Day 18- main idea

Day 19- summary

Day 20- story map

Week 5

synthesis

Charlie Anderson- Abercrombie

The Table Where Rich People Sit- Baylor

* Smoky Night- Bunting- located w/ fourth grade UBD Language materials

El noche de humo- Bunting

* Oliver Button is a Sissy- DePaola- E DEP

* Oliver Button es una nena- DePaola- E DEP

* The Alphabet Tree- (paperback)- Lionni- E LIO

* Fables- Lobel- 398.2 LOB

* Fabulas- Lobel- 398.2 LOB

* The Rag Coat (2 copies)- Mills- E MIL

Day 22- choose own connections

Day 23- retell

Day 24 reader's theatre

* The Grouchy Ladybug- Carle- E CAR

* El mariquita malhumorada- Carle- E CAR

Day 25 - evaluation and recommended rdg

                            Back to Lang. Arts UBD Writing Lessons

Week 1

Day 1- alliteration

Day 2- idioms

Day 3- mental images

Day 4- plan your revision

Day 5- revising leads

* Owl Moon (2 copies)- Yolen- E YOL

* A Chair for My Mother- Williams- E WIL- located w/ 4th gr. UBD books

* A Chair for My Mother- Williams- videorecording (E WIL) -located w/ 4th gr. UBD books

* Un sillon para mi mama (paperback)- Williams- E WIL- located w/ 4th gr. UBD books

Week 2

Day 6- contractions

Day 7- replace overused words

Day 8- themes

Day 9- punctuation

Day 10- physical description of the character

* Go Away Big Green Monster- Emberley- E EMB- located w/ kinder UBD books

* The Aminal- Balian- E BAL

Week 3

Day 11- dedication page

Day 12- about the author page

Day 13- author/illustrator study

Day 14- new ways to write about topics

Day 15- revising: using author as example

Week 4

Day 16- time transitions

Day 17- conferring with partner

Day 18- revise - take away

Day 19- narrative

* Koala Lou- Fox- E FOX

Day 20- writing

Week 5- poetry

Day 21

The Alphabet Chase - (author?)

Day 22- line breaks

Day 23- pattern/repeated words

Day 24- comparisions

Day 25- write poems

Kid's Poems- Routman

General COL Language Arts

*  Arthur in a Pickle - Brown- E BRO

The Sixteen Hand Horse- Gwynne

A Little Pigeon Toad- Gwynne

                                Back to Top    Social Studies

        Biographies

                               Back to Biographies                                  Clara Harlow Barton

* Clara Barton- Schaefer- B BAR

*  Clara Barton- Rose- B BAR

*  Clara Barton:  Angel del campo de batalla- Lassieur- 361.7 LAS

                               Back to Biographies                             Alexander Graham Bell

*  Alexander Graham Bell- Fisher- B BEL

*  Always Inventing:  A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell- Matthews- B BEL

*  Alexander Graham Bell- Nest Entertainment videorecording- VHS

*  Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone- Parker- 621.388 PAR

*  Alexander Graham Bell- Schaefer- B BEL

*  Alexander Graham Bell- Sherrow- B BEL

                                Back to Biographies                            Thomas Alva Edison

*  Thomas Edison and Electric Light - video recording

*  A Picture Book of Thomas Edison - Adler - B  EDI

*  The Wizard of Sound - Mitchell - B  EDI

*  Thomas Edison - Nirgiotis - B EDI

*  Thomas Edison - Parker - B  EDI

                                Back to Biographies                                       Nathan Hale

                               Back to Biographies                                                 Sam Houston

*  Sam Houston: A Leader of Texas- Atler-B HOU

                                Back to Biographies                                 Abraham Lincoln

*  A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln- Adler- B LIN (gr. 2-4)

* Abraham Lincoln- Schaefer- B LIN (gr. K-1)

* President Abraham Lincoln- Nest Entertainment videorecording - VHS

*  Abraham Lincoln- Schlessinger videorecording (DVD) gr. 1-3

                                Back to Biographies                                         Eleanor Roosevelt                       

*  A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt- Adler- B ROO

*  Eleanor- Cooney- B ROO

*  Learning About Integrity from the Life of Eleanor Roosevelt -Ellwood - B ROO

*  Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery- Freedman- B ROO

*  Eleanor Everywhere: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt- Kulling-B ROO

                                          Back to Soc. Studies  Unit V:  Looking Back

*  Keeping Time- - Branley- 529 BRA

* The Story of Clocks and Calendars- Maestro- 909/83 MAE

*  A Week- Murphy- 529 MUR

*  A Day- Murphy- 529 MUR

*  A Month- Murphy- 529 MUR

*  A Year- Murphy- 529 MUR

*  Telling Time- Schlessinger videorecording- VHS

*  On the Road: Travel Past and Present- Shuter- 625.7 SHU

* Flying High: Air Travel Past and Present- Shuter- 387.7 SHU

                                Back to Soc. Studies  Unit VI:  Jobs People Do

Coaches - Bagley

Bank Tellers  - Bagley

Cashiers - Bagley

*  We Need Librarians - Bauld - 027.809 BAU

*  Plumbers - Boraas - 696.023 BOR

*  School Principals - Boraas - 371.2 BOR

*  A Day in the Life of a Coach - Bowman-Kluhm - 796.07 BOW

*  We Need Custodians - Bauld - 372.16 BAU

*  We Need Teachers - Bauld - 972.11 BAU

*  Firefighters - Bourgeois - E BOU

*  Postal Workers - Bourgeios - E BOU

* The Life of a Emergency Medical Technician - Bowman- Kruhm - 610.69 BOW

Pretend You're a Community Helper - Bryant-Mole

*  Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon!  Cummings- E CUM

*  Bakers - Deedrick - 641.8 DEE

Garbage Collectors - Deedrick - 628.402 DEE

Construction Workers - Deedrick

Here Come Our Firefighters - Demarest

I Like Computers:  What Can I Be?  Dubois

*  Manuela's Gift - Estes - E EST

Electricians - Firestone

Buying a Pet from Ms. Chavez - Flanagan

Mr. Yee Fixes Cars - Flanagan

Choosing Eyeglasses with Mrs. Koutris - Flanagan

Here Comes Mr. Eventoff With the Mail!  Flanagan

Letter Carriers - Flanagan

Mayors - Flanagan

Carpenters - Franchino

*  Leah's Pony - Friederich - E FRI

We Need Water - Frost

*  Going to the Dentist - Frost - 617.6 FRO

Child Care Workers - Gibson

Emergency Medical Technicians - Gibson

Pharmacists - Gibson

*  My Dad's Job - Glassman- E GLA

*  Saturday Market - Grossman - E GRO

Grocers Sell Us Food - Greene

Police Officers Protect People - Greene

Librarians Help Us Find Information - Greene

*  Tight Times - Hazen- E HAZ

Arthur's Funny Money - Hoban

Dental Hygenists - Hodgkins

* Let's Talk About Going to the Dentist - Johnston - 617.6 JOH

*  Let's Visit the Police Station - Johnston - 363.2 JOH

*  Community Helpers from A to Z - Kalman - 331.7 KAL

*  I Live On a Farm - Kehoe - 307.72 KEH

*  School Cafeteria Workers - Klingel - 642 KLI

School Bus Drivers - Klingel

School Principals - Klingel

School Secretaries - Klingel

School Media Specialists - Klingel

*  The Paperboy - Kroeger - E KRO

Chefs - Quiri

*  Nurses - Ready - 610.73 REA

*  School Bus Drivers - Ready - 371.8 REA

*  Doctors - Ready - 610.69 REA

*  Librarians - Ready - 023 REA

*  Police Officers - Ready - 363.209 REA

Dentists - Ready

Everybody Works - Rotner

*  What Do People Do All Day?  Scarry -331.7 SCA

If You Were a Police Officer - Schomp

                               Back to Soc. Studies     Economics Bibliography

My First Job - Allen

I Love You, Mom - Arno

*  Pigs Go to Market:  Fun with Math and Shopping - Axelrod- E AXE

Supermarket: New York - Krull

*  My Rows and Piles of Coins - Mollel- E MOL

Doctors Help People - Moses

*  Animals on the Farm - Morgan - 636 MOR

*  What Mommies Do Best/What Daddies Do Best - Numeroff- E NUM

*  Farm Animals - Perols - 636 FAR

The Ant and the Grasshopper - Poole

*  Farm Animals - video recording

My Dad Takes Care of Me - Quinlan

Parents - Saunders-Smith

Wash Day - Simon

Home Tools - Snyder

Growing Up on a Farm - Stone

Farm Animals - Stone

Kitchen - Tuxworth

*  Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday - Viorst - E VIO

Bunny Money - Wells

*  A Chair for My Mother - Williams - E WIL

*  Music, Music for Everyone - Williams - E WIL

*  Musica para todo el mundo!  Williams - E WIL

What Moms Can't Do - Wood

What Dad's Can't Do - Wood

A New Coat for Anna - Ziefert

                                Back to Top    Science

                               Back to Science    Unit 7: Parts Working Together

*  AIMS Winter 06 - "Gr. K-1 force/motion"- periodical

*  Cool Tools- Auch- 621.8 AUC

* Mike Mulligan and His Marvelous Steam Shovel- Burton- E BUR

*  Mike Mulligan y su maquina maravillosa- Burton- E BUR

*  What are Screws?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  What are Pulleys?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  What are Inclined Planes?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  What are Wheels and Axles?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  What are Wedges?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  What are Levers?  Frost- 621.8 FRO

*  Machines We Use- Hewitt- 621.8 HEW

*  Simple Machines- Hodge- 621.807 HOD

* Science Experiments with Simple Machines- Nankivell-Aston- 621.8 NAN

* In the Supermarket- Pluckrose- 381 PLU

*  Parts of a Whole- Reed- 513.2 REE

* Partes de un entero- Reed- 513.2 REE

*  All About Simple Machines- Schlessinger videorecording - VHS

* How Does That Work? Simple Machines- SVE & Churchill Media videorecording - VHS

* Wedges to the Rescue- Thales- 621.8 THA

*  Gigantes de hierro- Wallace- 629.225 WAL

Bikes

* A Kid's Guide to Staying Safe on Bikes- Boelts- 796.602 BOE

* D.W. Rides Again! (3 copies) Brown- E BRO

* Curious George Rides a Bike and MoreTales of Mischief- DVD

*  Bicycle Book- Gibbons- 629.227 GIB

* Hot Rod Harry- Petrie- E PET (kinder books)

* Duck on a Bike- Shannon- E SHA

* Pato va en bici- Shannon- E SHA

* Don't Let Go! Willis- E WIL

* Stella & Roy- Wolff- E WOL

Helicopters

* Helicópteros militares- Doeden- 623.74 DOE

* Apache Helicopter: The AH-64- Pitt- 623.7 PIT (Gr. 4,5)

Pulleys

* What Are Pulleys? (2 copies) Frost- 621.8 FRO

* All About Simple Machines- Schlessinger videorecording (VHS)

Structures

* Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections- Biesty- 741.6 BIE

* La casa blanca- Binns- 975.3 BIN

* The Statue of Liberty- Firestone- 974.7 FIR

* La Campana de la Libertad- Harris- 974.8 HAR

* La Estatua de la Libertad- Harris- 974.7 HAR

Amy's Award* Everyday Structures from A to Z- Kalman - 624 KAL

* The Empire State Building- Mann- 974.7 MAN

* El Alamo - Schaefer- 976.4 SCH

* El Capitolio- Schaefer- 975.3 SCH

* The Statue of Liberty- Strazzabosco-Hayn- 974.7 STR

* The Story of the White House- Waters- E WAT

                               Back to Science                                       Unit 8: New Plants

*  AIMS Summer 2006- "Gr. 1-2 - plants"- periodical

*  AIMS April 2005- "Gr. 1-2- seed model"- periodical

* Anno's Magic Seed- Anno- 513 ANN

*  A Kid's Guide to How Plants Grow - Ayers - 635.9 AYE

*  Eyewitness:  Plant - Burnie - 581 BUR (Gr. 4,5)

* Berries, Nuts, and Seeds- Burns- 581.4 BUR (upper grades)

* Conservación numérica: planta melones monstruosos- Burstein- 513 BUR (K-3)

*  Plants and Plant Life - Bailey - REF 580 PLA

*  Seeds- V. K. Bodach- 575.6 BOD (Gr. K-3)

* The Tiny Seed- Carle- 582 CAR

* Jack's Garden- Cole- E COL

* Bill Nye: Plants- Disney- videorecording- VHS (upper grades)

*  The Visual Dictionary of Plants - Dorling Kindersley - 581 VIS REF (Gr. 5)

* Cómo plantar un arco iris- Ehlert- E EHL (K-1)

* Calabazas- Farmer- 635 FAR

*  Good Mushrooms and Bad Toadstools - Fowler -579.6 FOW (Gr. K-1)

* Pine Trees- Freeman- 583 FRE (K-1)

* Maple Trees- Freeman- 583 FRE (K-1)

* Oak Trees- Freeman- 583 FRE (K-1)

* From Seed to Apple- Ganeri- 583 GAN

*  From Seed to Plant - Gibbons - 581.3 GIB

* The Pumpkin Book (set of 4)-Gibbons-  audiocassette/book KIT

* The Surprise Garden- Hall- audiocassette/book KIT

*  Plants That Never Bloom - Heller - video recording - VHS

*  The Reason for a Flower - Heller - 582 HEL and video recording- VHS

* El motivo de una flor- Heller- 582.13 HEL

*  Plants and Flowers - Hewitt - 580 HEW

* Sorting Plants: What is a Flower? Hewitt- 580 HEW

* The Garden That We Grew- Holub- E HOL

* Cómo crece una semilla- Jordan- E JOR

*  How a Plant Grows - (2 copies) Kalman - 581.3 KAL

* The Pumpkin Patch- King- 635 KIN

 COL* The Carrot Seed- (2 copies) Krauss- E KRA

COL*  La semilla de zanahoria- Krauss- E KRA

* Pooh Adore-ables: Grow, Seeds, Grow! Lagonegro- E LAG

*  Plants of the Desert - Llamas- 581.5 LLA

*  Plants Under the Sea - Llamas - 574.5 LLA

* How Do Apples Grow? Maestro- 582 MAE

* Silver Seeds: A Book of Nature Poems- Paolilli- 811 PAO

*  Trees and Plants in the Rain Forest - Pirotta - 581.7 PIR

* Paco and the Giant Chile Plant- Polette- E POL- located in Fairy Tale section- Jack and the Beanstalk

*  Plants of the Rainforest - video recording

*  Plant Life - Riley 580 RIL

* Tierra: Miremos un jardin- Royston- 631.4 ROY

* Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed- Schaefer- 571.8 SCH (K-2)

*  The Magic School Bus Gets Planted - Scholastic video recording- VHS

*  The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed - Scholastic video recording- VHS

*  Plants - Silverstein - 581 SIL

* How do Plants Grow? Spilsbury- 571.8 SPI

*  Plants - Two-Can Kit - computer disc and booklet

*  Plants - Ontario Science Centre- Vanderlinden - 580.78 VAN

*  The Life of Plants:  Vida de Las Plantas - 581.1 VID (Gr. 5)

*  Texas Plants and Animals - Wade - 976.4 WAD

*  America's Prairies and Grasslands - Wallace - 876.4 WAL

* Las semillas- Whitehouse- 581.4 WHI