Calvert Education Services • Lesson 624

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Lesson 6Materials Letter Cards crayons

BooksPoems & ProsePractice Book, Volume 1

Student Assignments ❑ DISCUSSION

___Participate in an opening activity___Discuss sharing and being polite

❑ MATHEMATICS ___Complete today’s lesson

❑ READING COMPREHENSION___ Listen to and discuss “The Little Engine That Could,”

Poems & Prose___Answer comprehension questions in the lesson___Complete p. 18, Practice Book

❑ READING READINESS___Learn “The Alphabet March”___Preview letters F and f___Complete pp. 16–17, Practice Book ___Complete Reading Checkpoint

❑ ARTS & CRAFTS___Create people, animals, or objects using shapes

❑ GAMES & ACTIVITIES___Explore the idea of hopping___Complete hopping exercises

DiscussionShare and Be Polite

Take this opportunity to discuss what it means to share and be polite. Talk about any feelings your student may have had when faced with an uncomfortable situation. When discussing the concept of sharing, adults often go too far and give a child the feeling that he must share all his things all the time. Explain to your student that he does not need to share a prized possession that may be fragile.

When discussing the need to be polite, realize that a child learns best by observing and imitating the actions of his parents and other adult role models in his life. A child’s ability to work and play happily with other children and adults is a reflection of all he has seen and experienced in his family and in other close associations.

Suggested ReadingWords Are Not for Hurting, Elizabeth Verdick and Marieka Heinlen (illus.)Hands Are Not for Hitting, Martine Agassi and Marieka Heinlen (illus.)

MathematicsComplete Lesson 6 in the Calvert Math Manual.

Reading ComprehensionObjective: to retell the main events of a story in proper sequence

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Introduction: Explain to your student that “The Little Engine That Could” is about a train. This engine tries and tries and tries again to be the best engine he can. Ask: Have you ever been on a train? What was it like? Do you think this will be a make-believe story?

Instruction: Read “The Little Engine That Could,” found in Poems & Prose. After reading the story, ask the following questions.

1. Why couldn’t the first train get over the mountain? (It was too full.) 2. Why didn’t the big shiny train stop to help? (It thought it was too

important.) 3. Who did finally stop? (a little blue engine) 4. How does the story end? (The little engine was finally able to get to the top

of the mountain.)

Application: Have your student retell in his own words the story “The Little Engine That Could.” If he needs some assistance, ask questions such as: What happened next? As an extension assist your student in completing p. 18 of the Practice Book. Name the pictures in each row, and then ask your student: What comes next? Instruct him to complete the pattern.

Reading Readiness Objective: to preview and identify letters F and f

Introduction: Read aloud “The Alphabet March,” also found in Poems & Prose. Ask your student to find the letters he knows.

The Alphabet March

March about! Play and shout!

Stamp your feet to the beat!

A-B-C

March with me!

D-E-F

Right and left!

G-H-I

Knees up high!

J-K-L

Do it well!

M-N-O

In a row!

P-Q-R

Be a star!

S-T-U

Me and you!

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V-W-X

Yes, yes, yes!

Y and Z

March with me!

Instruction: Today focus on Ff. Trace each letter and say: This is the big (or capital) letter. Its name is F. It looks a little like capital E. What is the difference between these two letters? Capital F has a buddy, small f. This has a straight line, too, but it has a curve on the top. It does not look at all like its letter buddy.

Hold up the F, f, E, and e Letter Cards. Ask your student to find F or f, and then ask him to name the other letters he has learned.

Application: Assist your student in completing pp. 16–17 in the Practice Book.

Complete Reading Checkpoint

Arts & CraftsDrawing

Draw assorted shapes on a piece of paper and allow your student to use his imagination to draw animals, people, or other items of his choosing using the shapes.

Games & Activities Hopping

Tell your student that today he will explore the idea of hopping. Ask: Which animals do you know that hop? (rabbits, kangaroos) Can you hop like these animals?

Next have your student try any or all of the following exercises: • Hop on one foot.

• Hop on two feet.

• Hop around in a circle.

• Hop from one foot to the other foot.

• Hop around objects that are set up like an obstacle course—first on two feet, then on one.

• Hop in a race (with other children, or time him and then try to improve that time).

For years Virgil Hillyer had longed

for a home and children and family

life, and at last in 1929, he watched the

workmen begin to build his new house, a stone’s throw from

the school.Excerpt from

Calvert and Hillyer

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