Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

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Have you read any of these?

A little bit about Shel...

Sheldon Allen "Shel"

Silverstein was an American
author and poet. He is a
widely known children's
poetry author.

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about Shel Silverstein.
He was born in
Chicago, Illinois
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SHELDON ALLEN SILVERSTEIN

To learn more visit his website

A Giraffe and a Half

ELA Grade 2 Curriculum Standards

Common Core Standards

CCSS ELA Literacy.
RL.2.4
Describe how words and phrases (eg.
regular beats , alliteration, rhymes,
repeated lines) supply rhythm and
meaning in a story, poem or song.
Ontario Standards
Language Reading
1.1 - read a variety of literary texts
(e.g.,fables,traditional Aboriginal
stories,poetry, chapter books, adventure
stories, letters, diaries), graphic texts (e.g.,
comic books, posters, charts, tables, maps,
graphs), and informational texts (e.g.,How
tobooks, print and electronic reference
sources, magazine articles)

Pull

Giraffe and a Half

To hear the book

read out loud click on
the book cover.

Rhyming words have the

same ending sound and
different beginning
sounds.

fan

can

Circle the different beginning

sounds in BLUE

bat

mat

Circle the same ending sound in

RED
woman

pan

man

Make Your Own Rhyming Words!

SH

OP
H

Move a hat to create a new word

Make Your Own Rhyming Words!

P A
T
R

Making Rhymes
Roll the dice and use the letter to complete the word that
matches the picture. Roll again and repeat to make rhyming
words. Use the magic eraser in the box to reveal the answers!

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ip
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ip
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lip
rip
zip
sip
chip
hip

Pair the rhyming words!

SHAPES
Grade 2 Curriculum Standards
NYS Mathematics Standards
CCSS Math Content. 2.G.A.1
Recognize and draw shapes having a specified attributes, such as a given number of
angles. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes.

Ontario Standard
Grade 2 Mathematics: Geometry and Spatial Sense
distinguish between the attributes of an object that are geometric properties
(e.g.,number of sides, number of faces) and the attributes that are not geometric
properties (e.g., colour, size, texture), using a variety of tools (e.g., attribute blocks,
geometric solids, connecting cubes)
identify and describe various polygons (i.e., triangles, quadrilaterals,
pentagons,hexagons, heptagons, octagons) and sort and classify them by their
geometric properties (i.e., number of sides or number of vertices), using concrete
materials and pictorial representations (e.g.,I put all the figures with five or more
vertices in one group, and all the figures with fewer than five vertices in another
group.)

SHAPES

Who am I?
Hexagon
Triangle

Circle
Square
Pentagon

Octagon

Quadrilaterals
Properties
Four sides (edges)
Four vertices (corners)

Example

*Click the icon to see a music video about quadrilaterals

Can you find the Quadrilaterals?

Quadrilater
al

TREE HOUSE

Tree House
Grade 2 Curriculum Standards
NYS Mathematics Standards
CCSS Social Studies: My community and Region
today
2.1 A community is a population of various
individuals in a common location. It can be
characterized as urban, suburban, or rural.
Population density and use of the land are some
characteristics that define and distinguish types of
communities. Ontario Standard
Grade 2 Social Studies
B: People and environment: Living and working in
Ontario
B2.1 Formulate questions to guide investigations
into some of the short- and/or long-term effects
on the environment of different types of land
and/or resource use in two or more municipal
regions of Ontario (e.g., the impact of mining,
forestry, agriculture, suburban land development)
and measures taken to reduce the negative
impact of that use

What is population?
Population is the number of people who
live in a certain area.

Some communities have a few

people

Some communities have a lot of

people

Rural Communities

They are far away from a city.

They have fewer people than suburban areas.
They have more open spaces.

Urban Communities

An urban area is another name for a city.

Urban places have lots of things to do.

Urban areas have many stores and many different jobs for people
to do.

Suburban Communities

A suburb is a community next to or close to a city.

A suburb is not as crowded as a city.

People in a suburb live in houses and apartments.

Create a list of the characteristics of Urban and Rural

Areas

Urban

Rural

Be prepared to come up and write your answer using

the TEXT PEN

WRAP UP...
What was your favourite poem from the Shel Silverstein
unit?
Giraffe and
a Half

Shapes

Tree
House

Place the icon under your choice.

Summary of SMART Board Tools

1. Text Colour + Font: All pages

2. Titles Pages: 1-3
3. Images - Copy and Paste: 1-4, 7, 8, 10, 12,
13, 15, 19
4. Web links: 10, 12, 15, 17, 19
5. Hide and Reveal: 5 (Slide and reveal bar), 6
(layering and fade out), 9 (magnify glass), 13
(shade cell), 17 (fly out), 28 (coloured screen
shade)
6. Shape Tool with Paint Bucket Colour
Properties: 5-7, 9, 11, 13-18, 20, 21
7. Audio/ Video Links: 12, 15, 17, 19
8. Interactive and Multimedia: 14 (clapping
hands)
9. Background Fill with Colour Properties: 512
10. Activity Kit: 26 (Rural, Suburban, Urban)
11. Gallery Background and Themes: 23-25
12. Chart/ Table: 13, 29
13. Gallery Image: 12, 20
14. Locking: All pages
15. Activity Builder: 19 (Quadrilateral Sorting)
16. SMART Exchange: 22-26 (Adding
backgrounds, added hide and reveal and
changed text)