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How Children Learn from Their Environment

Have you ever heard this poem?

Children Learn What They Live
By Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.
If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

Copyright © 1972 by Dorothy Law Nolte

This is a great poem with lots of truth to it. Children learn based on what they see and hear. Children learn by doing and they often copy what they see and hear the adults and other children around them do. It is important to be careful what you say and do around children because they are always watching. It is important how you treat children and others because children learn how to treat others by watching you. Many of the problems that our society has today was create yesterday by how the adults behaved around the children. In order to create a better tomorrow, we must start today by correcting our behavior today.

Children are not born knowing how to act, talk, or walk. They learn by watching the adults and other children around them. So, the next time the child in your care misbehaves, go look in a mirror and see what you are doing and check on what any children around them are doing. Yes, they need to be corrected, but it is possible that your actions or the actions of others need correcting as well. Remember the old adage, Birds of a feather flock together. The people that children are around will cause them to start behaving just like them. Now stop and think about what kind of person you want children to become when they grow up. What kind of world do we want the future to be? Do you like the way the world seems to be going? The future is literally in your hands today. Correct your behavior today for a better tomorrow.

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Kindergarten week 36 out of 36

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Essential Meal Planning Tips for Busy Moms

Meal planning is a most for busy moms. It is useful for anyone wanting to be less wasteful and more organized. Here are some resources that I have found that can be helpful with planning and organizing. As I find more resources, they will be added.

  • Here is a meal planning guide to help you organize mealtime. This is a simple planning guide. I have used this one with some success.
  • Meal Planning for Busy Moms: This is a how-to meal plan using the below printables. I have recently found this one.
    • FREE Meal Planning Printables! (Below lists what you get.)
      • Printable Main Dish List– to list your family’s favorite dinner meals
      • Printable Menu Plan– a sheet to plan your dinners and grocery list
      • Printable Freezer Meals – a sheet to keep track of what’s in your freezer
  • Time-Saving Cooking Tips for Busy Families: Efficient cooking strategies include batch-preparing meals, using deli foods, and storing leftovers for quick and easy family meals, ensuring nutritious dining without extensive preparation.
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3rd grade week 1 out of 36

Print out this page. As you do the assignments, write down the day that you completed each assignment. This will be your attendance record. Also, you can use this to record your scores. Please see the main 3rd grade page for important information (see link at the bottom of the page)

Monday

  • Math
  • Science
    • This year, you will be studying the world in depth. The exploration will take you into the earth, beneath ocean, and even beyond into space. To begin, let focus on the world and examine a map.
    • Print the map that is attached to the end of this day.
    • Color the mountains brown and color the deserts yellow.
    • Are there any mountains or deserts or oceans near you?
    • You can go to this map. Click on where you live. Keep clicking on where you live to zoom in. Can you find it?  Are there rivers near you?
  • Social Studies
    • This year you are going to be learning about early history.
    • Please read this article.
    • Write down 3 things you learned from reading this article.
  • Language arts: this will be a combination of reading, writing, cursive writing, and grammar.
    • Reading
      • Paul Bunyan is a tall tale that originated through oral stories of North American loggers. His enormous size and strength allowed him to accomplish extraordinary feats. This story tells of his early years. Students will read the story and answer questions on Paul’s size and abilities.
  • Art
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Tuesday

  • Math
    • Add within 20
    • Play shark numbers. Count the tens and then count the ones and click on the number.
    • Play tangrams. Move and turn the shapes to get them to fill in the shape. This is tricky too.
  • Science
  • Social Studies
    • The Story of Mankind Part I by Hendrik Van Loon     
    • Hieroglyphics
      • Read and/or listen to the story.
      • Study the vocabulary terms.
      • After you read or listen to the lesson, narrate the events aloud using your own words.
  • Language arts:
    • Reading
      • Alice’s Evidence Reading Comprehension Activity
        • Chapter XII Passage: Lewis Carroll’s delightful story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” tells of an English girl named Alice who explores a strange world. In this passage, Alice has been attending a trial of the Knave of Hearts who is accused of stealing the Queen’s tarts. Just as Alice is called as a witness, she suddenly begins to grow quite large. Students will read the passage and answer questions on the plot action.
      • Download the pdf, read, and answer the questions.
  • Music
    • One of the earliest man-made instruments must have been some sort of drum.
    • Play the drums. Click on the drum set on the screen to play the virtual drums.
    • If you like, you can mix together some different sounds again.

Wednesday

  • Math
  • Science
    • Read about hot and cold deserts. Did you know there were cold deserts? How can that be? A desert is where there is very little precipitation, meaning very little rainfall (or snowfall).
    • Look up the highest high and the lowest low temperatures in Fahrenheit.
    • Tell someone how there can be cold deserts. What else did you read about deserts?
  • Social Studies
    • Using the HIEROGLYPHICS Alphabet chart at the end of the lesson, write your name in hieroglyphics.
  • Language Arts:
    • Spelling
      • Spelling list: aw words
        • follow the directions on the worksheet.
    • Poetry
      • Learn about Emily Dickerson by watching this video.
  • Physical Education
    • Stretching — and warm up along with the video. Follow the directions!

Thursday

  • Math
    • Count the tally marks.
    • Complete the activity.
      • Make numbers.
      • Make 13, 25, 61, and any other two-digit number.
      • Add 9 ones. What happens?
  • Science
    • One exciting area of the Earth is the Amazon rain forest.
    • Why do you think they call it a rain forest? (hint)
    • Explore the rain forest. Use the links on the left.
    • Where is the Amazon rain forest?
  • Social Studies
  • Language Arts:
    • Reading
      • McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey     
      • Lesson 1: Evening at Home
        • Study the words.
        • Read the lesson.
        • Write about how you would spend an evening at home.
  • Bible

Friday

  • Math
    • Count by 2s. Choose 2s.
      • The first one is 2, then 4, etc.
      • These are all even numbers. Even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8.
    • Make numbers. You are using hundreds, tens and ones.
      • Use the hundreds block this time. There are 100 blocks in that square. It’s 10 stacks of 10 blocks all put together.
      • Make the numbers: 142 and 375. Now you are using hundreds, tens and ones.
      • What happens when you add more than 9 tens? Feel free to make big numbers and read them out loud.
  • Science
    • Do a worksheet about the tropical rainforest. It is attached to the end of this day.
  • Social Studies
    • Write a Message in Hieroglyphics 
      • Use the Hieroglyphics alphabet to write your own secret message to a family member or friend in hieroglyphics.
      • See if your family member or friend can correctly translate your message.
      • Exchange your secret message with your instructor or someone else and see if they can decipher it correctly.
  • Language Arts:
    • Reading
      • McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey     
      • Lesson 2: Bubbles
        • Study the words.
        • Read the lesson.
        • Look at picture. Write about the picture. Be sure to describe the people and what they are doing.
  • Computer
    • You are going to work on your typing. This site has lots of games. You can pick which ones you want to play. You can start on the easiest levels, but you should try to move up to harder lessons where you are typing words and not just letters. We’ll be working on this for twelve weeks. You can work on your typing any day though.
    • Choose a game. If you haven’t learned to type, this site has lessons as well, choose Lessons from the top of the page. Typing is a great skill to have!
    • Internet Safety Reminders: Do not download anything onto your computer without permission. Do not click on any advertising on a website even if it looks like a game to play. Don’t give out your name, address, phone number, email address, photo, etc., online without permission.
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1st grade week 1 out of 36

Print out this page. As you do the assignments, write down the day that you completed each assignment. This will be your attendance record. Also, you can use this to record your scores.

Monday

  • Math:
  • Science
    • This year you are going to read about Peter and Polly. Peter and Polly is a Series of stories create by Rose Lucia. Today you are going to meet them and learn about mammals. Throughout this year, you will read about them and then learn some science.
    • Lesson 1: Two Children and Their Pets
      • Read the story.
      • Study the vocabulary words located at the end of the story.
      • Peter, Polly, and all of their pets (cows, dogs, cats, horses) are mammals.
      • Facts about mammals:
        • They are warm-blooded. They stay warm even when their surroundings are cold.
        • They have a backbone (unlike worms).
        • They breathe with lungs (not with gills like a fish or through skin like worms).
        • They have hair or fur (not feathers like birds or scales like snakes).
        • Females usually give birth to live babies (not born from eggs like turtles).
        • Females feed babies their milk (unlike birds that feed babies food such as insects, worms, berries, and seeds).
  • Social Studies
    • Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston  
      • Chapter 1: The First Governor in Boston
      • Read the story or listen to the lesson.
      • Study the vocabulary words. They are located at the end of the lesson.
      • Long ago, people from the continent of Europe traveled across a vast ocean to make their home in the land now known as the United States of America. People came from European countries including France, Spain, England, and Germany.
      • Use this map.
        • Find the United States.
        • Find Europe.
          • Zoom in on the map of Europe below and find France, Spain, England (UK), and Germany.
        • The settlers sailed from Europe to the United States in large ships. Find Europe and the United States on the world map below. Follow the red arrow and trace the path the settlers took.
  • Language Arts:
  • Art

Tuesday

  • Math:
  • Science
    • Draw a picture of mammals that would live on a farm. (dogs, cats, horses, cows)
  • Social Studies
    • Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston     
    • Chapter 1: The First Governor in Boston
    • Act Out the Story
      • Imagine you are a hungry settler.
      • Pretend to go the beach and dig up some clams and mussels. Crack open their shells and pry out the soft flesh from inside. Pretend to cook and eat your clams and mussels.
      • As you eat the clams, the supply ship arrives. Hop up and down and cheer for the arrival of the ship.
  • Language Arts:
  • Music
    • Learn about the woodwind instruments.
      • read about the different instruments
      • listen to the different instruments.

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

  • Math
  • Science
  • Social Studies
    • Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston     
    • Chapter 2: Marquette in Iowa
      • read the lesson and study the vocabulary words at the bottom.
      • Use this map.
        • The United States of America is divided into smaller regions called states. In the story, Marquette and Joliet traveled through the land that became the states of Wisconsin and Iowa.
        • Zoom in and find Wisconsin (WI) and Iowa (IA) on the map of the continental United States below. Do you live in or near these states?
  • Language arts:
  • Computer
    • Many of your lessons include internet links for to access. When visiting the designated web pages for your lessons, please refrain from clicking on anything other than what the instructions specify. Avoid clicking on advertisements, games, or any links that redirect you to other websites.
    • Turn on and off computer.
      • With your parents’ permission, turn your computer off and on. Ask how to do it properly.
      • You have to tell the computer to turn off. You do not just push the power button.
      • When the computer is off, there are no lights on the computer and it takes a while to turn it back on and get going again.
      • Your computer can also “sleep.”
      • We can let laptops (computers that you can hold on your lap) sleep by closing their lids.
      • When your computer is waiting too long for you to do something, it may go to sleep. Or it may have a moving picture of some sort come up on the screen. This is called a screensaver. It protects the computer screen, the part you are reading this on right now, from getting burned by having the same lights on it all the time.
Comprehensive 1st Grade Lesson Plans for Parents

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