Timeline Week One: March 11th- March 15th, 2013 Oviparous Animal Eggs MONDAY 3/11 8:35-8:50 Hang

up coats, backpacks, calendar piece, morning announcements 8:50-9:30 Morning read aloud You Cant Lay an Egg If Youre an Elephant by Fred Ehrlich TUESDAY 3/12 8:35-8:50 Hang up coats, backpacks, calendar piece, morning announcements 8:50-9:30 Library WEDNESDAY 3/13 8:35-8:50 Hang up coats, backpacks, calendar piece, morning announcements 8:50-9:30 Morning read aloud Chickens aren't the only ones: world of nature by Ruth Heller THURSDAY 3/14 8:35-8:50 Hang up coats, backpacks, calendar piece, morning announcements 8:50-9:30 Morning read aloud Animal Eggs by Cusick, D. & Sullivan, J FRIDAY 3/15 8:35-8:50 Hang up coats, backpacks, calendar piece, morning announcements 8:50-9:30 Morning read aloud The Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend

9:30-10:15 Introduction to eggs What is in an egg? -Make a chart with pictures of oviparous animals on one side and non-oviparous animals on the other side Reading Workshop and Word Work

9:30-10:15 Gym

9:30-10:15 Morning message (small moment narrative Ill write a paragraph on the whiteboard about a personal experience, capturing the core issue, the yolk of the story in detail to demonstrate how to write a personal narrative)- this will present them a model of a personal narrative for writing workshop

9:30-10:15 -Make own personal life cycle timeline -Compare personal timeline with an oviparous animals (this will be printed out for them)

9:30-10:15 Eggshell Experiments: 1. Strength of eggshells (placing heavy hard cover books on top of it until it cracks). 2. Bouncy egg - (soak raw egg in white vinegar for 2-3 days until egg shell is dissolved)- test to see how high you can bounce it before it breaks. Compare with

Pan 2 a hard-boiled egg (it becomes wrinkly) -mention how DDT pesticides was banned (birds couldnt make shells)- lots of birds werent hatching as a result - tell them that the dissolving of the shell actually happened -have students think about whats out there (pollution)show them how fragile eggs are- its a big job for animals to take care of their eggs -how small crows fight hawks to prevent them from eating their eggs (mention the angry birds game and how that was inspired by real life), how snakes slither up trees to eat eggs -stress our responsibility is to make sure these eggs hatch if we can 10:15-10:30 Recess 10:30-11:00 Reading Workshop (continuing) 10:15-10:30 Recess 10:30-11:00 Writing Workshop10:15-10:30 Recess 10:30-11:00 Reading Workshop 10:15-10:30 Recess 10:30-11:00 Reading Workshop 10:15-10:30 Recess 10:30-11:00 Reading Workshop

Pan 3 continue personal narrative #1 in writing workshop 11:00-11:30 Lunch 11:30-11:45 Guess What is Growing Inside This Egg? by Mia Posada

11:00-11:30 Lunch 11:30-11:45 The Trouble with Chickens by A J.J Tully

11:00-11:30 Lunch 11:30-11:45 The Trouble with Chickens by A J.J Tully

11:00-11:30 Lunch 11:30-11:45 The Trouble with Chickens by A J.J Tully

11:00-11:30 Lunch 11:30-11:45 The Trouble with Chickens by A J.J Tully

11:45-12:30 Writing Workshophave a graphic organizer for them to write down a story idea for their personal narrative

11:45-12:30 *Art (my students) Health (I will be teaching the other first grade class about the food pyramid) 12:30-1:15 *Social Studies (my students) Health (I will be teaching the other first grade class about the food pyramid)

11:45-12:30 Music

11:45-12:30 Science

11:45-12:30 Science

12:30-1:15 Computer

12:30-1:15 Egg walk- ostrich, duck, chicken, emu, goose (have the actual egg shells), platypus, echidna, spider, salmon, blue robins. -Write down similarities and distinctions they saw between the eggs

12:30-1:15 Writing Workshopcontinue working on the personal narrative

12:30-1:15 Art

1:15-2:00 Writing Workshop

1:15-2:00 *Health Food

1:15-2:00 Writing Workshop

1:15-2:00 Writing

1:15-2:00 Writing

Pan 4 (continued) 2:00-2:45 Math 2:45-3:00 Pack Up Pyramid 2:00-2:45 Math 2:45-3:00 Pack Up Workshop 2:00-2:45 Math 2:45-3:00 Pack Up Workshop 2:00-2:45 Math 2:45-3:00 Pack Up

2:00-2:45 Math 2:45-3:00 Pack Up

Sight Words of the Week 1. got 2. into 3. family 4. were 5. big* 6.keep (* = rhyme) Weekly Poems What is an egg? by Lucia Kemp Henry What is an egg? It's a special place. It's warm and it's safe. It's a cozy space. What is an egg? It's a place to start Growing bones and a beak And feathers and a heart. What is an egg? It's a place to grow For a chick and a duck And an owl and a crow. What is an egg? It's a place to begin For all sorts of birds; For rooster and hen. Eggs (Sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) Lots of animals come from eggs Some with fins And some with legs.

Pan 5 Some that chatter And some that cheep Some that fly And some that creep. Some that slither And some that run Some with feathers And some with none. Animal eggs can be quite small Or just as big as a tennis ball. The animals here They're quite a few Hatch from eggs And lay them, too.