2011+-+2012+Curriculum+Planning+Notes

= = =Launching the Boston Neighborhoods= =Introducing the Different Ingredients of Neighborhoods=

Preparation:

 * Photos of Children doing the different hand signals
 * Make the posters for each ingredient of the neighborhood
 * Get the words in Haitian, Spanish, and Cantonese for numbers 1 - 10 for counting books

Small Icons of Ingredients:
Annie has the document on her computer.

Week of 09/19
=Food=
 * "Everybody Cooks Rice"
 * "Bread, Bread, Bread"
 * Celebration on October 6th
 * Take pictures to add to the posters

=Learning=
 * "Ruby Bridges"
 * "Fredrick Douglass"
 * Go the Mattapan Library
 * Take pictures to add to the posters

//QUICK WRITE: Quick write about the rice we ate right after we ate it on the 6th of October... half hour to eat and a half hour to write//
= = =Music & Art=
 * "Murals: Walls That Sing"
 * Show them the mural second grade did hanging in the hall
 * Can Kimani teach them a connected song?
 * Can Mr. Montejo and Mr. P. do some connected work?
 * Take pictures to add to the posters

//QUICK WRITE: Looking at a mural... and writing to the prompt: "What is going on in the picture..."//
=Language=
 * "I Hate English"
 * Counting Books
 * Learn How to Count In Different Languages
 * 1) Spanish (Jen's Students)
 * 2) Chinese (Cantonese)
 * 3) Haitian Creole
 * Take pictures to add to the posters

Video For Counting in Spanish: [|Numbers Song in Spanish. Cancion de los Numeros..mov] Video For Counting in English: Annie has - too large to fit here; needs to be copied on a zip drive Video for Counting in Haitian Creole: [|Counting from 1 to 20 in Haitian Creole.mov] Video for Counting in Mandarin: [|Mandarin Chinese Lessons Counting from 0 to 10.mov]

Counting to 10 in Spanish, English, Haitian Creole, and Mandarin Sheet: [|Counting to 10 in Different Languages.doc]

Week of 10/10
=Green Spaces= = = =Activism=
 * "City Green" (third grade has copies)
 * Plant Bulbs
 * Take pictures to add to the posters
 * Play the clip from the video with Emoryia talking about Ms. Chalmers needing a school and have Jinny come in and talk about her act of activism and how she sees second graders being activists
 * Plant Bulbs (connected to green spaces)
 * Take pictures to add to the posters

Week of 10/17 (It's only a 4 day week)
= Neighborhood Walk = Small groups of students is ideal in these situations Walk of Mattapan while practicing signs Tallies of all the ingredients of the neighborhood (the sheet should match the posters) The sheet should have a spot to sketch

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