Favorite Season: Summer

My Favorite Season: Summer

As we are coming to an end with summer and fall is starting to begin, I look back on the seasons and think to myself which season is my favorite season. My favorite season of all time is summer. With summer comes warm weather and fun activities. One of my favorite things to do during summer is make a fire in the fire pit and make s'mores. In addition, I love going to the beach during the summer. The sand is warm between my toes and the water is cool as a take a walk during the shore line. Shell collecting is something I like to do at the beach. I have a collection of shells, all types of shells in a jar on my dresser.

Vocabulary:
1. Season: (noun) example spring, summer, autumn, and winter which is shown by different weather patterns during each season
2. Summer: (noun) The warmest season of the year
3. Weather: (noun) the conditions of the outside environment
4. Activities:(noun) a thing a person can do
5. S'mores:(noun) a dessert made of graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate
6. Beach:(noun) a shoreline by the ocean that is filled with tiny rocks
7. Sand:(noun) tiny rocks on the beach by the water
8. Shells: (noun) a hard item that is found on the beach that once was a home to a sea creature

Vocabulary Exercise: Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word.
1. _______________ are a delicious dessert.
2. The cool ___________ felt good under my feet as I took a walk on the beach.
3. I love going to the ________________ and sitting on the shoreline enjoying summer.
4. I have a big collect of __________ to show off to my friends when I visit different beaches.
5. My of my favorite ______________ is to make a fire in my fire pit.
6. We are having some nice _________________ during the summer.
7. There are four _________________: summer, fall, winter, and spring.
8. I enjoy _________________ when the weather is warm and the sun is hot.

A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
Activities for nouns:
1. Write a list of different examples of a person, place, or thing.
2. Letter Scavenger hunt: for each letter of the alphabet, write 3 nouns to go with each letter
3. Write 3 sentences with nouns in the sentence: color the places red, colors the people blue, color the things yellow

Lorax and Earth Day

On April 22nd, the world celebrates Earth Day. The Lorax is a Dr. Seuss character who is the "person" who speaks for the trees. Dr. Seuss used this character to symbolize how we should act toward our environment. Earth Day was introduced in the 1970s as national day to focus on our environment and ways to keep it safe. Many schools put on programs to show students ways to keep their environment clean and safe. In my school, we have two garbage cans, one that is for regular trash and one for recycling paper/bottles. We are teaching our students at an earlier age to recycle and keep our earth clean.

Vocabulary:
1. Earth Day- (Proper noun) event that happens once a year, celebrated on April 22, on which  events all over the world are put on to show support for environmental protection.
2. Symbolize- (Verb) stand for something
3. Environment- (Noun) the place where we live
4. National -(Adjective) similar across the whole nation or world
5. Focus- (Noun) center of activity
6. Safe-(Adjective) not likely to be put in danger
7. Programs- (Noun) a planned series of events
8. Recycling- (Verb) make waste into reusable items


Vocabulary Exercise:

1. ___________________ is on April 22 every year.
2.  I _________________ paper and plastic every week.
3.  Orange and Blue _____________ the Mets, since they are the team's colors.
4. The library runs ____________ to help people with many skills.
5.  My _______________ is filled with beautiful tress, I love seeing them outside when I walk.
6. I feel _____________ when I am walking around my community.
7. Our _____________ anthem is played at different sporting events.
8.  The __________ of our lesson today is determine whether a number is even or odd.

A proper nouns is a specific person, place, thing, animal, or idea. Proper nouns are always capitalized.
Activity for Proper Nouns:
1. Make a list of proper nouns that fall into the categories of person, place, and thing.
2. Write three sentences using proper nouns.
3. Highlight the proper nouns you used.

http://www.earthday.org/about/the-history-of-earth-day/