Tag: 1st grade
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How Big is a Whale?
We finished up the chapter on whales and dolphins, but I didn’t think they were quite grasping how big these animals were. If I read to you a whale is 100 feet long would you know how long that is? So we started to investigate, how big is a whale? This made for a great…
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Viking Unit
Vikings are such an odd time period in history. As a culture, we are very obsessed with them. We’ve created so many movies and TV shows about them, and their actions did a lot to change our culture, but the individual Vikings do not do much to change our history. It makes it difficult to…
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Washington state unit
When I was in third grade, my school got Weekly Reader newspapers. They were small papers with a theme, one week the theme was Mount Saint Helens and the great volcanic eruption. Somehow, in my head, Mount Saint Helens had just erupted. In reality, Mount Saint Helens erupted several years earlier, and they were reporting…
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Kansas Unit
Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here, well actually current day because I’m rescheduling this to 2025. I wrote this way back in February 24, 2011, and things have changed just a little bit. Like when I first wrote this Kansas Unit we didn’t even link to the books, so it was just name a book title…
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New Jersey state study
Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here, well once I reschedule this to now, this will be Present Ticia 2025, but I wrote this in 2011 back during our FIRST New Jersey Unit. This was back during our first foray into geography lessons and our United States Geography unit. Then again, as the kids were in high…