Week One

Topic: Agriculture
Monday
7:30 - Breakfast Breakfast
8:00-8:30
Intro Agriculture Theme
Morning
(teachers dress in farm theme)
Meeting/Shared https://www.youtube.com/use
Reading
r/ThePetersonFarmBros
8:30-9:30
ELA work
Sing: The Farmer and the
stations
Dell allowing the students to
1. Small group
participate.
reading
instruction
*Procedures for Morning
2. Exploratory
Meeting
Science/Word
*Rules, Procedures, and
Work
Expectations (I, We, You)
*Expectations of the summer
program
*Anchor Chart of Goals for
the summer program
*PowerPoint of Expectations
and excitement!

Tuesday
Breakfast
Book: How Groundhogs
Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry.

Wednesday
Breakfast
Farm
By Penelope Arlon

Thursday
Breakfast
On the Farm
By Kirsten Hall, illustrated
by John Steven Gurney

Students and community

members will prepare garden
area: ground preparation, soil,
plants, seeds, water.

Literacy Centers:
1. Guided Reading - Utilize
Small Group Plant books
(Reading A to Z)
(Titles for Week 1) Country
Places, All Kinds of Farm
Animals, Smelly Clyde

Literacy Centers:
1. Guided Reading - 1.
Guided Reading - Utilize
Small Group Plant books
(Reading A to Z)
(Titles for Week 1) Country
Places, All Kinds of Farm
Animals, Smelly Clyde

Students will discover the facts

and engage in the process.
*Times will be determined as to
when each group will participate
in school gardening project.
Literacy Centers:
1. Guided Reading - Utilize
Small Group Plant books
(Reading A to Z)
(Titles for Week 1) Country
Places, All Kinds of Farm
Animals, Smelly Clyde
2. Describe and how each of the
pictures relate to the gardening
process. Picture cards located at
Agclassroom link
http://www.agclassroom.org/teac
her/matrix/lessonplan.cfm?

2. Play How Many Hats Does a

Farmer Wear?
http://www.agclassroom.org/teac
her/matrix/resources.cfm?
rid=306
(Para pro will need to assist)

2. Play The Farm to Cart

Game
http://www.agfoundation.or
g/files/Farm_to_Cart_Final_
Game.pdf (para pro will
need to assist)

9:30-9:45
Social Time
(Social Skills
Development)
9:45-10:00
Read Aloud

Social Time

10:00-11:00
Science
*Experiment
*Reading
(making books)
*Notebook
responses

http://www.agclassroom.o
rg/teacher/matrix/lessonpl
an.cfm?
lpid=104&author_state=0
&search_term_lp=a day
without agriculture

Farming by Gail Gibbons

Lesson Plan website

Read and discuss Background Agricultural

Connections
Complete Activity 1
**Complete this activity if
time permits. pass out the
Matching Product to Source
activity sheet. Students should
match the product with its
agricultural source.
http://naitc-

lpid=291
(Para pro will need to assist)
Social Time

Social Time

Social Time

Up in the Garden and Down in

the Dirt by Kate Messner (This
book is part of the garden kit.)

A Day in the Life of a Farmer by

Heather Adamson

Where does Food Come

From?
Shelley Rotner and Gary
Goss

Students will plant individual

classroom gardens. (Kit
provided)

Discuss with students other

products that come from
agriculture.

Time permitting, students will

make predictions about what
will happen with their garden in
their notebooks.

1.Hand out the Alphabetizing

Agriculture activity sheet.
http://naitcapi.usu.edu/media/uploads/2015/
10/15/Matching_Product_to_So
urce_Activity_Sheet.pdf
(Discuss the bold-faced heading
words to ensure students'
understanding.
2.Discuss the vocabulary words
to make sure students understand
each agricultural product.
3.Review alphabetizing. Have
students write the vocabulary
words in alphabetical order on
the lines under each heading.

Create and discuss a farm

web.
http://naitcapi.usu.edu/media/uploads/2
014/06/12/My_Farm_Web_
graphics.pdf

api.usu.edu/media/uploads/20
15/10/15/Alphabetizing_Agri
culture_Activity_Sheet.pdf

(This could be a homework

exercise with parental input).
4.After students complete the
alphabetizing exercise, they
should complete the Word Find.

Answer Key: Timber-paper,

pencils, potpourri, houses;
Dairy Cattle-cheese, ice
cream, yogurt; Cotton-blue
jeans, paper, shirts; Flowerperfume, potpourri; Wheatspaghetti, tortillas, cereal

11:00-11:30
Informational
writing
11:30-12:00
Technology

Write personal goals for

summer SAIL program

12:00-12:30
Lunch
12:30-1:00
Independent
reading/Exit
slip reflection
1:00
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5.Review terms found in the

Word Find and ask, what
agriculture commodity did the
item come from or what items
does the commodity produce. For
example, butter comes from
dairy cattle and sheep produce
wool that is woven into socks or
sweaters

Write a letter to a farmer.

Finish writing letter to a

farmer.

http://www.myamericanfarm.
org/classroom/games

Write a description about the

school garden. Draw and label a
diagram of the garden.
http://www.myamericanfarm.org
/classroom/games

http://www.myamericanfarm.org
/classroom/games

http://www.myamericanfar
m.org/classroom/games

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Independent reading/Exit slip

reflection

Independent reading/Exit slip

reflection

Independent reading/Exit slip

reflection

Independent reading/Exit
slip reflection

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