The Web Files: Literature Unit2nd Grade

Chandler Rutledge

Standards usedSocial Studies: SS2E4 The student will describe the costs and benefits of personal spending and saving choices.

SS2CG1 The student will define the concept of government and the need for rules and laws.

Language Arts:ELACC2RL1 Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

ELACC2RL2 Key Ideas and Details: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

ELACC2RL4 Craft and Structure: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

ELACC2RL6 Craft and Structure: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

ELACC2RF4 Fluency: Read grade level text level with purpose and understanding.

Math:MCC2.MD.7 Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

MCC2.MD.10 Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems10 using information presented in a bar graph.

Science:S2E3. Students will observe and record changes in their surroundings and infer the causes of the changes. Recognize effects that occur in a specific area caused by weather, plants, animals, and/or people.

S2L1. Students will investigate the life cycles of different living organisms. Investigate the life cycle of a plant by growing a plant from a seed and by recording changes over a period of time. Determine the sequence of the life cycle of common

animals in your area: a mammal such as a cat or dog or classroom pet, a bird such as a chicken, an amphibian such as a frog, and an insect such as a butterfly.

Fine Arts:HE2.8: Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health. Design a poster encouraging peers to avoid unhealthy behaviors.

VA2PR.1 Creates artworks based on personal experience and selected themes. Create artworks to express individual ideas, thoughts, and feelings from memory, imagination, and observation.

M2GM.1 – Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Sing from memory multiple songs representing various genres, tonalities, meters, and cultures including at least one song in a foreign language.

D2FD.2 Understands and models dance etiquette as a classroom participant, performer, and observer. Demonstrates attentiveness, full participation and cooperation with others in the dance learning environment.

Miscellaneous: PE2.2: Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principals, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activity. Students maintain tempo when performing a dance with a partner or group while counting aloud to the music or beat.

HE2.7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health. Design a meal based on the food guide pyramid.

Language Arts: Students will recall stories, fables, and folktales to be able to

understand the meaning of them in The Web Files. While reading and after the completion of the book, the class will talk about the other characters in the story that they recognized such as Little Boy Blue, the three little kittens who lost their mittens, Miss Muffet, and Peep and her sheep. The students will choose one story and come up with a way the Ducktectives could help solve their problems.

Students will be able to read at their grade level with fluency and understanding by practicing The Web Files Reader’s Theater. Once the characters have been chosen and each group is ready, the group will present to the class their version of The Web Files.

Students will be able to use key ideas and details to come up with who they think the salad thief is. They will write the clues they heard to prove who the thief was.

Students will be able to understand the sequence of events that happened throughout the story. They will be able to recall which vegetables were stolen first, who the second victim was, and what led the Ducktectives to the Dirty Rat.

Students will learn the importance of rhyming, alliteration, and repeated lines in the story. After reading the story, they will make a list of examples; Dum De Dum Dum, purple-pepper-picken’ peck, tartest tasty tomahtoes, luscious leafy lettuce.

Math: Students will be able to identify time from an analog clock to a digital

clock. Using the times in the story, the students will work in pairs to draw the hour and minute hands on a blank clock.

Students will learn how to graph data on a picture graph. A survey of the class will be taken to find out each students favorite farm animal. Working together as a class, a picture/bar graph will be made and put on display for the class to refer to when working with graphs.

Students will use word problems to find the answer to math problems. The students will work independently to complete the Farm Word Problems.

Students will work with money manipulatives to “purchase” items at a farmers market. The classroom will turn into a Farmers Market where students will be able to shop for fruit, vegetables, and other products found on a farm. They will be given only a certain amount of money

and decide what items and how much of the item they will be able to buy with the money they have.

Science: Students will learn about the types of animals that live on the farm and

what their importance is. The class will use discussion and prior knowledge to learn about the animals that live on the farm.

Students will understand the Food Pyramid (My Plate). They will learn what the correct portions of each food group are. Using the book, the students will relate the vegetables mentioned in the story as well as any other items of food the class comes up with and place them into their food group.

Students will learn and investigate the life cycle of different living organisms. The class will grow sunflowers using plastic cups to learn about the life cycle of a plant. The class will also focus on the life cycle of a chicken, using an incubator if possible!

Social Studies: Students will explore the justice system and understand the

importance of rules and laws. After learning the differences between rules and laws, students will complete the charts on Who Makes the Rules and Who Makes the Laws.

Students will develop an understanding of using details and clues to determine the outcome or reason of a situation. The class will pick out the key details and clues the Ducktectives used to find the salad thief.

Fine Arts: Art: Students will use personal experience and the farm theme to draw

a picture of their favorite farm animal and how its life is on the farm. Art: Students will show an understanding of the life cycle of a chicken

by completing the Chicken Life Cycle poster. Health/Art: Students will show understanding of living a healthy life by

creating a poster encouraging other students to be healthy, unlike the Dirty Rat.

Music: Students will learn and memorize farm songs that the class will sing together.

Music: Students will learn and memorize the Cotton-Eyed Joe dance and show full participation and cooperation to dance with others around them.

Miscellaneous: Spanish ELL: Students will develop an understanding of the names of

farm animals in Spanish. Students will learn about the punishments received for breaking laws

by taking a field trip to the local police station. Students will get firsthand experience of how a farm runs and see all

the animals and vegetation they have been learning about in class by taking a trip to Southern Belle Farms.

Farm Word Problems

1. 63 students are going on a field trip to Southern Belle Farms. There are 5 teachers and 3 chaperones going as well. How many people are going to the farm?

2. The farmer picked 17 apples from the apple orchard. He shared 3 with his grandson, 1 with his wife, and sold the rest. How many apples did the farmer sell?

3. Southern Belle Farms is 26 miles from Hickory Flat Elementary. The bus has traveled 19 miles so far. How many miles are left?

4. There are 9 cows on the farm. Each cow has 4 legs. How many cow legs are on the farm?

The Life Cycle of a Chicken Poster Activity

6:35 A.M.

The Ducktectives were at the hen’s house.

1. Draw the hour and minute hand on the clock to show 6:35.