Summer Camping Calendar

Cyberschool: Cyberschool Units: Summer Calendar

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Camping	Smores Noxious Plants Make a Poison Ivy Vine Indigenous Birds Camping Song	Smores Noxious Plants Make a Poison Ivy Vine Indigenous Birds Camping Song	Dirt Cake Animal Tracks Track Matching Do's and Don'ts Camping Song	Gorp Nature Walk Camping Song	Gorp Nature Walk Camping Song
JuneBugs	What is an insect? Make a ladybug. Read: The Very Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle Make a ladybug snack.	Make a bumblebee Sing: I'm Taking Home a Baby Bumblebee Fingerplay: Here's the Beehive	Make a spider. Why is a spider not an insect? Read: The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle or Watch: Charlotte's Web. Spider Snack Itsy Bitsy Spider Finger Play	Make a butterfly. Read: Where Does the Butterfly Go When it Rains by Maye Garelick Make a butterfly snack.	Make a bug house. Go outside and look for a bug to put in your box. Read: The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle Make a bug snack.
Under the Sea	Make Oscar Octopus windsock Otto is Different by Franz Brandenberg Dave the Octopus worksheet, a sequencing activity	Make a sea snail Sea snail finger play. Make a sea shell snack.	Sea Shell Homes Sand Dollar Cookies, or Southern Living, May 2005, p. 204 Legend of the Sand Dollar. Shell sorting Home for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle Sea Shell finger play from Ring a Ring O' Roses	Underwater Friends Make a Rainbow Fish Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister	Make a starfish Starfish (Let's Read and Find Out Science) by Edith Thatcher Hurd Matching Worksheet and fingerplay.
Watermelon Work Activities to be added	Make a bulletin board with tally sheet and let students guess how many seeds the watermelon has. Introduce or review the letter "W" Sponge paint a watermelon slice	Easel paint on watermelon shape Guess circumference of semi-major axis. Make watermelon cookies.	Guess the weight. Make watermelon popsicles for Friday snack. Tissue Paper Watermelon Slice Eat some of the watermelon for snack today. Save and wash seeds.	Count the seed. Read "The Enormous Watermelon" Make a circle map of Enormous Things. Art: draw an enormous thing on a watermelon shaped piece of paper and put in watermelon shaped book.	Count the seed. Make a construction paper watermelon slice. Glue on real seeds. Play with watermelon scented playdough. Also make a teacher-made watermelon math game for kids to use in one of their centers.

Begin the week of the camping unit with a small tent set up in room for students to see as they begin the unit. Make sure the Activities should make use of facilities available in your region.

For the sea side unit we make paper boats for classroom decoration.