Florida Strawberries

Florida Strawberries

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Vocabulary: addition, plus Produce: Strawberries

Standard: MAFS.1.0A.3.5

Demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.

Materials: laminated strawberry pictures, plastic bins or recycled strawberry containers, posters pencil and strawberry worksheet

Teacher will: Review addition with the class. Explain that when you add you get bigger numbers. Review strategies such as

drawing pictures and crossing out to help solve problems. Teacher will use laminated strawberries to model

math problems. Start by splitting class into groups. Each group will receive a plastic basket and laminated

strawberry cutouts. Groups will practice problems on board by adding or taking out laminated strawberries out

of bin. The Teacher may want to do the first problem together to check for student understanding.

Students will: Complete the simple addition strawberry worksheet.

Closing: Have students share some equations which sum is 5 and 10.

Math

Social Studies Vocabulary: fact, fiction, strawberry Produce: Strawberry

Standard: SS.1.A.2.5 SWBAT distinguish between historical fact and fiction.

Materials: chart paper, paper, pencils

Teacher will: Review that if something is a fact then it is true and really happened. Teacher will tell the class that if

something is fiction that it is not true or make believe. The teacher may want to have the definitions written on

the board or chart for students to see. Teacher will then read the list of ten statements about strawberries to

the class. After reading , teacher will review which were facts and which were fiction.

Students will: Students will number their paper 1-10. After listening to each statement about a strawberry, students will write whether they thought it was fact or fiction.

Closing: Talk about why the statements were fiction and why they were fact.

Vocabulary: strawberry, hand lens, observe, properties, senses

Produce: Strawberry

Standard SC.1.P.8.1

Observe objects and sort them by observable properties.

Materials: Strawberries, plate, hand lens, chart paper, paper, pencils, crayons, worksheet

Teacher will: Teacher will explain to the class that you can use your senses to observe things and describe them by their properties (color, shape, texture, weight and size). The teacher will model using a hand lens with the class. The teacher will then hand each student a strawberry and hand lens.

Students will: Students will observe the strawberry with a hand lens first and fill out the strawberry chart. Then students will use their senses to fill the 2nd part of the chart out. Students will finally taste the strawberry when the chart is complete.

Closing: Students will share what they thought the strawberry tasted like. Teacher may want to take this time to go over the chart and fill out a class chart together.

Vocabulary: tomatoes, nutrition, healthy, vegetables, fruit

Produce: Strawberries

Standard: LAFS.1.RL.3.7

Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting or events.

Materials: The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood, paper, pencils, and chart paper.

Teacher will: Teacher will review key details with the class and explain to the class that pictures can help to tell a story. Before reading, ask students to look at the cover and make predictions as to what they think is going to happen in the story, or what they think the story will be about. Chart some answers on the board or chart paper. Next, read aloud The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood. During reading stop and look over the list to see if some predictions are right. Ask questions related to key details (character, setting, problem, solution) what it looks like is happening on the page before reading the next page. Students will: After reading students can turn and talk with partners or the class can have a whole group discussion about their predictions. Afterwards, students will go back to their seats and draw a picture of the story including characters and setting. They will write one to two sentences about their picture.

Closing: Students will share their pictures.

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