If you haven't used mentor sentences before, Jessica is a great go to person. I'll be using Martin's Big Words as my mentor text, and since I don't reinvent the wheel, my mentor sentence work came from Ideas by Jivey and her mentor sentence lesson for the week. These are part of the pack I created for Celebrating Chinese New Year in the Upper Grades.įor our word work time I am focusing on prepositions, which was difficult for my smarties to identify in a sentence before break. We also work on some other word work activities like identifying pronouns, homophones and sentence combining. The focus skill is compound sentences, so it is a perfect review and incorporation into our writing work. I have the Mentor Sentences pack from Ideas by Jivey, so this is an easy no prep lesson for me. Some of my students even have orange trees in their yards, so this is a great way to get them to eat better and share a few facts with their families!Īlong with the activities above, I also use Tikki Tikki TemboĪs a mentor text for the week. This is a perfect healthy snack for us living in Florida because oranges are in season. Many families that celebrate Chinese New Year eat oranges which symbolize luck and wealth. You could also have orange slices or tangerines as your snack during the week. Just something fun to get them thinking and writing. A great quick write activity would be to explain how your fortune could be a theme for your life, giving key details that support the central message. Even if I have to go to two or three places, it would be a fun treat during our Morning writing work. What a great way to celebrate the great job your students are doing by having fortune cookies! We have many Chinese restaurants in our area, and I will be asking them to donate fortune cookies to my students to celebrate. I use cards similar to these as my brain breaks:įact #5: Chinese New Year is about Celebration with your Familyįamilies spend a lot of time eating and celebrating during the Chinese New Year. ![]() The number riddles never go above 100, so students that need a little extra visual to solve the problems can pull out their hundreds boards and multiplication charts to help them. The math riddles are 5-6 step directions that I differentiate and get progressively harder with the skills. It helps them to keep them thinking and using their computation skills. Usually I try to complete a brain break math riddle with my students every day. Our riddles will be math puzzles to help improve our mental math. This year as something new, I am going to give my students a center choice about making lanterns. ![]() Sometimes the lanterns contain a riddle which makes the festival more lively. The celebration of Chinese New Year usually ends with a Lantern Festival where red lanterns are hung on families homes and gates. ![]() It is customary during Chinese New Year to make lanterns to honor relatives who have passed away. ![]() I think if different illustrations could be used, it would greatly enhance the book.ĭespite the pictures, “Tikki Tikki Tembo” is a great book that has many applications in the classroom.Fact #4: Chinese New Year Allows You to Honor Your Relatives. The only colors are green, blue, and yellow and they tend to get dull as the book progresses. My only real complaint is the illustrations. This could include not only language arts, though this book, but teachers could incorporate China throughout the day through science, math, and social studies. The actual story is very well done and this would make an excellent story to kick-off a unit on China and Chinese culture. This is an amusing story of how one brother has such a long name that, when he falls into a well, his brother has a very hard time explaining what happened because he can’t get all of the syllables of the name out. “Tikki Tikki Tembo” is the retelling of an ancient Chinese folktale of why the Chinese have such short names. Tikki Tikki Tembo – Arlene Mosel, illustrated by Blair Lent
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