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About this Book.................................................................................................................... v
Meet the Author................................................................................................................... vi
English.................................................................................................................................. 1
Nouns............................................................................................................................... 1
Magazine Noun Story.................................................................................................... 1
Verbs................................................................................................................................ 2
Scavenger Verb Hunt.................................................................................................... 2
Adjectives......................................................................................................................... 3
Sock Adjective Sachet.................................................................................................. 3
Adverbs............................................................................................................................ 4
Acting out Adverbs....................................................................................................... 4
Prepositions...................................................................................................................... 5
Toying with Prepositions................................................................................................ 5
Music.................................................................................................................................... 6
Antonio Vivaldi................................................................................................................. 6
A Tree for all Seasons Picture........................................................................................ 6
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart............................................................................................... 7
Glowing Night Scene..................................................................................................... 7
Ludwig van Beethoven...................................................................................................... 8
Conductor’s Baton........................................................................................................ 8
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky................................................................................................... 9
Sparkly Snowflakes..................................................................................................... 10
Snowflake Patterns...................................................................................................... 10
George Frideric Handel................................................................................................... 14
Performing “Water Music”........................................................................................... 14
Poetry................................................................................................................................. 15
Shape Poems.................................................................................................................. 15
Shape Poem Ornaments.............................................................................................. 15
Alliteration....................................................................................................................... 16
Alliteration poetry book............................................................................................... 16
Similes............................................................................................................................ 17
Simile Treasure Hunt................................................................................................... 17
Metaphors...................................................................................................................... 18
Chalk metaphors......................................................................................................... 18
Acrostic Poems............................................................................................................... 19
Acrostic Name Poem.................................................................................................. 19
20th Century Artists............................................................................................................. 20
Henri Matisse.................................................................................................................. 20
Paper Cutouts............................................................................................................. 20
Marc Chagall.................................................................................................................. 22
Dream Picture............................................................................................................. 22
Piet Mondrian................................................................................................................. 24
Rectangular Composition............................................................................................. 24
Andy Warhol.................................................................................................................. 26
Pop Art Picture........................................................................................................... 26
Jackson Pollock.............................................................................................................. 28
Poured Painting........................................................................................................... 28
Botany................................................................................................................................ 30
Trees.............................................................................................................................. 30
Tree Identification Walk.............................................................................................. 30
Bark............................................................................................................................... 31
Colorful Bark Rubbings and Collage............................................................................ 31
Leaves............................................................................................................................ 32
Leaf Walk................................................................................................................... 32
Wax paper leaves........................................................................................................ 33
Flowers........................................................................................................................... 35
Decorative Flower Pot................................................................................................ 35
Garden calendar.......................................................................................................... 35
Pollination....................................................................................................................... 37
Flower Identification Walk........................................................................................... 37
Sweet Experiments...................................................................................................... 37
World Cultures.................................................................................................................... 39
Finland............................................................................................................................ 39
Finnish Pancakes (Pannukakkua)................................................................................. 41
Indonesia........................................................................................................................ 42
Indonesian fruit salad................................................................................................... 44
Guatemala....................................................................................................................... 45
Baked Bananas........................................................................................................... 46
Australia.......................................................................................................................... 47
Damper Bread............................................................................................................ 49
Ghana............................................................................................................................. 50
Fufu............................................................................................................................ 52
Earth Science...................................................................................................................... 53
Landforms and Bodies of Water...................................................................................... 53
This is My Country...................................................................................................... 53
Landform Definitions....................................................................................................... 54
Erosion........................................................................................................................... 56
Making Mud Mountain................................................................................................ 56
Saving Mud Mountain................................................................................................. 56
Volcano.......................................................................................................................... 57
Erupting Volcano......................................................................................................... 57
Coral Reef...................................................................................................................... 58
Coral reef diorama...................................................................................................... 58
Biomes............................................................................................................................ 60
Biome Landscape........................................................................................................ 61
Math................................................................................................................................... 65
Estimation....................................................................................................................... 65
The Estimation Game................................................................................................... 65
Money............................................................................................................................ 66
Play Store................................................................................................................... 66
Measurement.................................................................................................................. 67
What’s the measurement?............................................................................................ 67
Fractions......................................................................................................................... 68
Serving Pie Fractions................................................................................................... 68
Graphs............................................................................................................................ 69
Food Bar Graph.......................................................................................................... 69
Line Graph of Magic City............................................................................................ 70
Bird Pie Chart............................................................................................................. 71
History................................................................................................................................ 72
Ancient Egypt.................................................................................................................. 72
Hieroglyphic Bookmark............................................................................................... 72
Ancient Greece............................................................................................................... 74
Greek Theatre Masks.................................................................................................. 74
Ancient Rome................................................................................................................. 75
Mosaic Butterfly.......................................................................................................... 75
The Middle Ages............................................................................................................. 77
Medieval Castle.......................................................................................................... 78
Colonial Times................................................................................................................ 79
Play Nine Men’s Morrice............................................................................................ 80
Make a Whirligig......................................................................................................... 81
Chemistry............................................................................................................................ 82
States of Matter.............................................................................................................. 82
Changing States........................................................................................................... 82
Periodic table.................................................................................................................. 84
Name that Element...................................................................................................... 85
Acids and Bases.............................................................................................................. 88
Litmus Test................................................................................................................. 88
Chemical Reactions......................................................................................................... 89
Denture Tablet Experiments......................................................................................... 89
Making Kool-Aid Play Dough..................................................................................... 90
Solutions, Suspensions, and Colloids................................................................................ 91
The Tyndall Effect....................................................................................................... 92
The Reading Corner............................................................................................................ 93
Astonishing Animals......................................................................................................... 93
Animal Story Book...................................................................................................... 93
Imagination...................................................................................................................... 94
Reading Tent............................................................................................................... 94
Unforgettable Characters................................................................................................. 95
Become a Character.................................................................................................... 95
Exotic Places................................................................................................................... 96
Lunch in a Foreign Land.............................................................................................. 96
Adventure....................................................................................................................... 97
Making a Magic Carpet............................................................................................... 97
References.......................................................................................................................... 98