Week 2

	Natives: America Work on the Pledge of Allegiance Patriotic songs, activities and simple crafts.	Pioneers & Explorers : The World Journal and scrapbook by continent We'll watch a video Research some books & have atlases available for you to do your scrapbook
1:30 - 2:00	Video
2:00 - 3:15	Patriotic Theme of the Month	2:00 - 2:30 Divide into groups to research 2:30 - 2:45 Come back together as a large group, review research answers & each child fills out their own Continent Page 2:45 - 3:15 Travel Log —Bring your own scrapbook and supplies.  This can be elaborate or a 3-prong folder with notebook paper in it.
3:15 - 3:30	Clean-up
Sept	Discovering America	World
Oct	Settling America	Africa
Nov	Thanksgiving	Europe
Dec	Famous Americans	Asia
Jan	National Monuments	Antarctica
Feb	Natural Landmarks	Australia
March	Famous Inventors	South America
April	American Law Enforcement	North America
May	Presentations	Presentation Day We’ll discuss the world as a whole and look through each others' scrapbooks.

Take Attendance (Monitor can do this as children enter)

Watch Movie 1:30 - 2:00

Break kids into small groups a minimum of small mostly even groups optimum would be 4-5 kids / group

 

Choose 1 group of kids, who haven't gone, to go into the library with an adult and a teen to do library research   2:00 - 2:30 Monitor should put an "X" through today's attendance circle as children exit so we can track which children have had library skills in which month. Teach children to use computer catalog - DO NOT DO IT FOR THEM! Teach children options in computer catalog Have them copy book title, author & call number for any books the library has. Help them look up the books - DO NOT DO THIS FOR THEM! Help them consider other sources of information - encyclopedias, atlases, magazines...  Encourage them to find a few Primary Sources (historical documents written in that country about that country) and items on different reading levels. When kids have selected 20-50 pieces of material and filled out hold slips, they can return to the Main room, each joining a different small group. Adult assigned to library research group ensures slips are given to the next adult on the schedule for the following month's Travel Club

 

	Assign each group a topic to research  2:00 - 2:30 If there are too few kids to cover all topics, assign less topics - or the kids can do double topics if they get through quickly Hand out topic sheets Groups select books from stack, take to table & return books to stack for others to use before getting another book or when done Adults assisting any group with trouble
	After a reasonable amount of time, bring the group back together as a whole & each group reports to the larger group with each child taking notes. 2:30 - 2:45 Don't forget about the group doing library research! Adults should help smaller children take notes.  They don't need every piece of information given.