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Montessori I - Second Grade Australia Project - Due 5/22

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Dear Second Graders,

For your Australian project, you are going to impress your fellow students and your teachers with your incredible knowledge of an Australian landmark. You will choose a landmark in Australia and then prepare a poster and a presentation for your landmark. You may choose a natural landmark (volcanoes or mountains or the Great Barrier Reef) or a manmade landmark (the Sydney Opera House). It is completely your choice in what you would like to do. You will need to start by researching Australia and deciding what landmark is of most interest to you. I have given just a few examples, but your topic is your choice!

If your landmark is natural, you must include the following on your poster:

1. Location

2. When it was discovered

3. How it has been important to the land

4. Do people visit? Why or why not?

5. Pictures of the landmark

6. As many interesting facts as you want!

If your landmark is manmade, you must include the following on your poster:

1. Location (city)

2. When it was built

3. What makes it special?

4. Why do people go there?

5. Pictures of the landmark

6. As many interesting facts as you want!

Please have fun with this assignment! It is yours to be as creative as you choose and to give us as much information about your landmark as you can.

Remember your project is due Thursday, May 22.

Have fun!

Ms. DeLay and Ms. Young

Montessori I - First Grade Australia Project - Due 5/22

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Dear First Graders!

You are the lucky grade that gets to make food for our Australian Feast for the end of the year. You will choose one dish that is eaten in Australia to prepare for the class and share it with everyone at our Feast.

Project:

1. Design a placemat.

2. Your placemat should include the following:

a. 1 main dish

b. 3 side dishes

c. 1 dessert

d. 1 drink

e. Anything else you choose to put on!

3. Create the placemat so that it is large enough to display to the class.

4. Prepare a presentation to explain your placemat and tell what you learned about

Australian foods.

5. Choose one recipe that you would like to make for the class.

6. Have a parent e-mail the recipe to Ms. DeLay at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it so that she may

put them on the website for the whole class.

Enjoy researching foods from Australia. Try to find exotic foods for us to learn about and taste!

Have fun!

Ms. DeLay and Ms. Young

Reading Menu 5 (due 4-30-08)

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Reading Menu #5

Appetizers

1. Update your character chart.

Entrées/ Main Course

1. Read and Summarize chapters 29-35 in There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom, chapters 19-22 in Surviving the Applewhites, and chapters 9-10 in The Boggart .

2. Write five questions you have about the

chapters.

3. Write three Vocabulary Words. These should be any words in the text that you didn’t understand.

A. Look up each word in a dictionary and

record the definition.

B. Write three sentences using each Vocabulary

Word in the proper context.

Dessert

(choose only one)

1. Write a short quiz that covers the chapters you have read so far.

2. Write a poem about the book so far.

Montessori I - Third Grade PowerPoint Rubric

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"About Me" PowerPoint Presentation	POSSIBLE POINTS	POINTS EARNED
COMPOSITION
Did you create a title page with the words: ABOUT ME BY: your first name and your last name?	10
Did you include a table of contents?	10
Did you include pictures of yourself?	10
Did you use proper punctuation and capitalization?	10
Did you use proper spelling?	10
Did you have at least six pages in your presentation?	10
Did you have your work finished on time?	10
Extra points for special elements such as transitions or backgrounds
PRESENTATION
Did you speak in a loud, clear voice?	10
Did you move through your slides smoothly?	10
Were you able to answer questions from your audience?	10
TOTAL	100

Montessori I - Third Grade Australia Rubric

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Australian Animal Rubric

Beginning

Developing

Accomplished

Exemplary Score

	1	2	3	4
Australian Animal Chart.	No animal completed on chart. 9 or more areas not filled in.	1 Animal completed on chart or 4-8 areas not filled in.	2 Animals completed on chart or 1-3 areas not filled in.	Completed chart for all 3 animals. All areas fill in completely.
Map of Australia with animals and their location labeled.	No map, or map with nothing located and labeled.	Completed map with 1 animal's location marked and labeled.	Completed map with 2 animal's locations marked and labeled.	Completed map with all 3 animals location's marked and labeled.
Completed presentation including all 3 animals and all of the information from the chart.	Presentation including 0 animals and their pictures or missing 9 0r more pieces of information from the chart.	Presentation including only 1 animal and a picture of the animal or missing 4-8 pieces of information from the chart.	Presentation including only 2 animals, a picture for each animal or missing 1-3 pieces of information from the chart.	Completed presentation including all 3 animals, a picture for each animal and all of the information from the chart.