Classroom Themes

Getting to Know You

Friendship - Frog and Toad are Friends

    Amphibians - Toads and Frogs

         Rainforest  Habitat                    

Plants - Apples, Peanuts

Pets - Henry and Mudge, Tuffy

         Charlie Anderson - make a LOST poster

Olympics

*Webquest - Enchanted Learning

** Javelin Throw

*** Olympic Games

Mammals - Bats

Birds - Owls /Woodland  Forest Habitat

Insects/Spiders

Communities - Haunted Community

Columbus Day

Fire Safety

Native Americans/Sioux Indians

Pilgrims - Life in a Plymouth Colony and The First Thanksgiving

Veteran's Day

Christmas Program

Christmas Around the World

•     Several Creative Writing Projects

Penguins-Arctic and Antarctic Habitats

Fresh Water and Salt Water Habitats

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Winter Creative Writing

National Popcorn Day

Our Country/Symbols of our Country/Our Flag

President's Day - George Washington and Abraham Lincoln

100th Day - The Wright Brothers

Groundhog's  Day

Valentines webquest

Weather

Erosion/Changes in Earth

• Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Fossils/Reptiles/Dinosaurs

Outer Space

St. Patrick's Day

Light/Heat/Sound  -

Sound experiments

Thomas Edison, Benjamin  Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell

• inventor webquests and timeline

Solids/Liquids/Gases/Mixtures

• Math tie-ins

Earth Day

Easter

South Dakota

Circus

Motion

• Motion Experiments
• Rollercoasters
• Egg role project

Balance

• Balancing nails experiment
• Balance two forks and a toothpick on a glass
• Balance a potato on a glass
• Balance a cork on two stick pins

  Magnets

• magnetic nail experiment
• magnetic painting experiment
• magnet kit and magnet centers
• magnets online activity

  Spring creative writing

   Health