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Harry in Room 2B
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Recycling: Make
your own stub people from scraps
Visit your local recycling plant to find out more.
Read aloud the delightful picture
book, I Stink! by Kate and Jim McMullen
Read about Bees and what to do if you get stung!
Find out more about how Pilgrims used dead fish to
fertilize crops
Act out "The Thanksgiving Play"
Go to your school library and check out the newest
dinosaur book
Take a field trip to the aquarium like Harry's class
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Harry and the Green Slime
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Study the three states of matter: solids, liquids and
gases
Make your own slime.
See recipe on pg. 55
Do a teacher read aloud of Charlotte's Web by E.B.White just for the joy of it!
Study spiders.(See Melvin Berger's Spinning Webs)
Create your own
cobweb invasion at your school like Harry's class
Make DO NOT SMOKE posters, then act out "The Deadly
Skit"
Have public speaking in your room by doing "Demonstrations"
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Harry and the Ant Invasion
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Order your own ant farm for a class study
Have an ant invasion at your school like Harry's class
Read the picture book, Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
then ask
students to write a "Diary of an Ant."
Bring in a fish tank, talk about good pet care, then
observe fish
Talk about good manners, then have a square dance!
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Harry's Secret
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Have a tank of water frogs. Study their development.
Read about teeth. Ask a student to donate his/her "lost tooth" for
science experiments.
Ex. What happens when a tooth is left
in a glass of soda? Milk?
Do a teacher read aloud of Chandra & Comora's George Washington's
Teeth
Secrets! Write
about something that the class may not know about
you.
Draw a self portrait that
shows your interests around the borders.
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Harry and the Christmas Surprise
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Rediscover Nursery Rhymes! Contrast Eulalie Grover's Mother Goose
(The Original Volland Edition) and Nina Crews The Neighborhood Mother Goose. Pick
out your favorites and read them in unison.
Enjoy Kathleen
Krull's M is for Music
Create your
own lyrics to familiar tunes or add new verses!
(see
Sing-Along Stories like Mary Ann Hoberman & Nadine Bernard
Westcott's Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Brainstorm a
list of sounds in your room. On the
playground? On a class walk?
Tape record a
class reading of The Night
Before Christmas adding special sound
effects.
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Harry and the Kickball Wedding
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Do a teacher read
aloud of the classic, Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Act out the "Recess Wedding" for a Valentine's
Day play
Have a special Valentine's Day Kickball Game. Use red
chalk to make heart bases.
Brainstorm what Harry loves! Is there one thing on his list that you love too? |
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Harry and the Dungeon
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Have your own
Science Clubs like Room 2B.
Study painted lady
butterflies by raising them in class.
Read about the Fibonacci Sequence that occurs in nature.
(See G is for
Google, A Math Alphabet Book, by David Schwartz Pages
"F" and "N"
Read about a dungeon in Kate DiCamillo's delightful fairy
tale, The Tale of
Despereaux
Enjoy Gail Gibbons' Monarch Butterfly!
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Harry and the Purple People
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Do a teacher read aloud of Alice in
Wonderland by Lewis
Carroll just for fun!
Have a a Mad Tea Party like Room 2B
Create your own "Purple People" and display
them in the hall!
Draw Humbug, Hogwash, Hooey, Hokum,
Balderdash and Poppycock.
Be sure to print
underneath their portrait one thing they
don't like!
Write a story about something you lost. Be sure to include places you looked, what you had to do without it, and where you
finally found
it - if you did! Did you learn something?
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Harry and the Drop of Doom
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Create your own amusement park ride
Take a photo of three students sitting on a school stair,
and have them
pretend they're on the "The Drop of Doom!" Display the
pictures!
Make your own "paper quilt" of your favorite
school activities
Write your own epitaphs for a cemetery of people who didn't make good
choices, or didn't have good common sense.
(Ex: Here lies Robert Henry Poked
who
died at 30
because he smoked.)
Write about a fear you had once. How did you get over it?
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Harry Moves Up to Third Grade
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Bring your own mementoes in a bag from summer to
share.
Study rocks and minerals (see Eye-Witness Series: Rocks and Minerals, and MacLeod, Skelton & Stringer's Rocks
c 1993.
Visit a mine if possible
Visit a nearby museum that features rock exhibits
Act out the chapter, "Things Get Rocky."
Ask a jeweler to speak to your class about gems.
Write a story about a time you
got lost.
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Harry Goes to the Moon
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Study the moon and collect fascinating facts.
See
Ian Graham's The Best Book of the Moon c 1999
Figure out how high you can jump on the Moon! (see pg. 14)
Have a Moon Bake Sale, then use the profits to buy a
telescope.
Have your own Moonwatch with your families at night.
Create a class magazine that features
stories/illustrations about your
observations.
Make a scrapbook of newspaper articles about the new Mars' explorations.
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Harry Goes to Sea
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Take a field trip on a riverboat
Read two terrific follow-up pirate picture book stories:
Melinda Long /
David Shannon's How I Became a Pirate
Mem Fox/Kathryn
Brown's Tough Boris c1994
Write your own sea chantey like Sidney.
Find out about your own ancestors. Where were they from?
Find out more fascinating facts about famous ships like the Titanic, and
the Mayflower (see Kate Waters' On the
Mayflower c
1996, and Hugh Brewster/Laurie Coulter's 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to your Questions about the TITANIC
Read aloud the delightful
story of a tugboat: Kate and Jim McMullen's
I'm MIGHTY!
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Harry at Halloween
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Study water by having
your own water experiment demonstrations
(See Walter
Wick's A Drop of Water)
Estimate how many seeds are in a big pumpkin and a small pumpkin. Then find out: Does your larger pumpkin have more
seeds?
Bake the pumpkin seeds in oil & salt
for a snack!
Do a teacher read aloud of The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow by
Washington Irving
Have someone take a picture of your headless class! (see
pg. 36)
Make a Readers' Theater out of the last chapter, "The Case of the
Missing
Pixie Dust."
Make a Halloween Bar Graph for your class. (Use Room 3B's categories:
fairy tale, animal costumes, and occupations.)
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Harry and the Dragon War
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Find out more about dragons: see Song Zhang &Hao
Zhang's A Time of
Golden Dragons c 2000, and St. George
and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
Draw your own rainbow using the scientific color
order of ROYGBIV (see pg. 17)
Do a teacher read aloud of the classic, My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles
Gannett
Choose your own favorite animals from stories, and have
an Animal Hall
of Fame!
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Harry and the Mud Gremlins
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Grow your own bread mold like Room 3B.
Make slides for the microscope of the green fungi
Study fungi. See
Dorling Kindersley Handbooks: MUSHROOMS
Visit a state park and discover
mushrooms with a guide
from the Mycological Society.
Write about "Something I Hate" like Room 3B did (See pg. 17)
Display your stories on a Writing Wall
Reorganize your book shelves into fiction and nonfiction.
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