New Lesson Plans

The Balloon Tree

The Pea and the Princess

Alexander and the wind-up Mouse

Diary of a worm

Force and Motion A Thematic Unit

Read to Me

Hi,

For few years already, the governemt of Nova-Scotia has been giving a liteacy kit to the families of newborns. See www.readtome.ca

Haiti

You will find a booklist of stories, nonfiction books about earthquakes, fear, folktales etc. Tap “Haiti” in the search engine to access it.

A Book published by a Ryerson’s Grad!

Sometimes That’s Me by Jerry Lee. 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 
Jerry Jeremiah is a writer and holds a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education from Ryerson University. Having immigrated to Toronto at the tender age of four, learning to write and read English was definitely a challenge to be met head on. His childhood influences include the works of Shel Silverstein, Roald Dahl and Robert Munsch.  
ABOUT THE THEORY (RATIONALE)
 
This Children’s book based theories learned in the area of children’s (social) emotional intelligence. This book includes underlying themes of personality development (development of emotions), discovery of self, gender-typing/sexuality, relationships and promote a healthy framework for exploring social emotional intelligence with children.
 
 
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sometimes That’s Me is a chilldren’s book that explores different emotions being illustrated by different situtations within various family configurations with fun! Follow me on a journey of self exploration with family, friends and caregivers whom I love and the feelings that arise from my time with them.

International Reading Association

Their read.write.think.org website  has been revamped. Check it out.

Corrections

Several lesson plans have been reuploaded due to technical problems. If you experience problems in downloading a doc please email me at monique@ryerson.ca

Penguins – Spring- Force & Motion – Worms

Happy new year! I posted a unit on penguinsbased mostly on an award-winner  science books for children. It has great pictures and a rhyming text.  To find it, type “penguins” in the search engine. Teachers who plan a unit on penguins at this time of the year, might find some new ideas. Don’t forget to show childre “The March of the Penguins”. The unit would also create a awareness of the importance of saveguarding the hab itat of the penguins.

There are also a few new thematic units: force and motionunder the category titles Technology. It combines previously posted lessons with guidelines for science activities.  This unit would make an interesting innovation to the very tired theme of transportations. This makes a great transition between winter theme and spring  themes. Plenty of hands-on- experiences for students in all grades. With some basic equipment, Newton’s laws can be explored by children in K-3.

The unit on Spring also combines previously posted lessons such as wind, rain, seeds, frogs etc.  You will find several combinations of literacy and science activities.  All good ideas to get out of the classrooms with the clipboard and the camera.

A natural follow up on Spring, look for a new lesson based on “Diary of a Worm“, written by the author “Click, Clack, Moo”.  I extended the usual literacy activities with natural science activities. Young children love to observe worms and touch…some do. Worms are great for setting up terrarium and classroom composting. There are plenty of resources to make your prep easier. This could become a year-long theme. The classroom composting is a great year-long activity to recycle all that classroom paper.

The Carrot Seed

I am very glad and proud to announce that I am posting the first lesson plan written by a student. She wrote it as a requirement for a course she is taking with me  at  Ryerson University. The focus of her lesson is the comprehension of a moral virtue. Congratulations!

A Unit for November

I posted a long unit on “Wind” in the category called weather. Many sub-themes can be elaborated. It s also a four seasons theme. Give it a peek. Better, test some activities. Other than the literacy activities, you’ll find “friendly” science activities and wind crafts.

I found Royalty Free photos that are very useful.

A| Cat & a Mouse Story – Lesson Plan

A revised version has been posted.