Week 5: July 11-14

Topic: Soil

7:30 Breakfast
8:00-8:30
Morning
Meeting/Share
d Reading
8:30-9:30
ELA work
stations
1. Small group
reading
instruction
2. Exploratory
Science
3. Word Work

9:30-9:45
Social Time
(Social Skills
Development)
9:45-10:00
Read Aloud
10:00-11:00
Science
*Experiment
*Reading
(making books)

Monday
Breakfast

Tuesday
Breakfast

Wednesday
Breakfast

*Read A Handful of Dirt by

Raymond Bial
*Discuss

*Revisit Mondays book

*Discuss

*Revisit Mondays book

*Discuss

1. Small group reading

instruction for each group with a
focus on reading needs.
2. Explore soil samples
3. Word work with related
vocabulary. (see lesson plan
link)
website resources
http://www.thescienceofsoil.com/
teacher-resources

1. Small group reading

instruction for each group
with a focus on reading
needs.
2. Explore soil samples
3. Word work with related
vocabulary.
website resources
http://www.thescienceofsoil.
com/teacher-resources

1. Small group reading

instruction for each group
with a focus on reading needs.
2. Explore soil samples
3. Word work with related
vocabulary

Social Skills Development

Social Skills Development

Jump Into Science: Dirt by

Steve Tomecek

Jump Into Science: Dirt

Whats Soil Made Of

Activity 2: Shake, Rattle,

and Roll Demonstration
from National Agriculture in
the Classroom
Website resource

From National Agriculture in the

Classroom Handout.
http://www.agclassroom.org/teac

Social Skills Development

Dirt: The Scoop on Soil

Activity 3: Whats Soil Made

Of? from National
Agriculture in the Classroom
Website resource
http://www.agclassroom

Thursday
Breakfast
Clemson Extension Presentation

*Notebook
responses

her/matrix/lessonplan.cfm?
lpid=301&grade=0&author_state
=0&search_term_lp=soil

http://www.agclassroom
.org/teacher/matrix/
lessonplan.cfm?lpid=301

.org/teacher/matrix/
lessonplan.cfm?lpid=301

11:00-11:30
Informational
writing
11:30-12:00
Technology
12:00-12:30
Lunch
12:30-1:00
Independent
reading/Exit
slip reflection
1:00
Dismissal

*Students will write

about/describe the different types
of soil.
www.bighugelabs.com
Trading Cards, Cube, etc...

*Students will write about

the demonstration from
Shake, Rattle, and Roll.
www.bighugelabs.com
Trading Cards, Cube, etc...

*Students will write about the

demonstration from Whats
Soil Made Of?
www.bighugelabs.com
Trading Cards, Cube, etc...

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Read to Self

Read to Self

Read to Self

Exit Slip: Reflecting daily

instruction

Exit Slip: Reflecting daily

instruction

Exit Slip: Reflecting daily

instruction

Dismissal

Dismissal

Dismissal

Dismissal