MARY POPE OSBORNE’S CLASSROOM ADVENTURES CURRICULUM KEY Book MTH Book MTH Book Correspond- Fact Tracker Book Language Arts Social Studies Science Math Geography Nature & Animals & Folklore, Character Building Visual Arts Music Theatre Arts # Cover Image Title ing Fact Title Cluster Conservation Wildlife Mythology & Lessons Tracker Legend –Name derivates of - “Dinosaurs dinosaurs –Cretaceous Period ● Individual or group Before Dark Mystery –Fossils tree houses KIDS” 30 of the - Concept –Paleontologists Dinosaurs ● Create Jack & minute 1 Dinosaurs Tree, - Vocabulary –Ancient habitats When you work as Before Dark Annie in their Classroom Books - Cause & Effect –Timeline: 251 years –Food chains: meat- –Pangea - Changes to the Read Read Dinosaurs a team, you can favorite wardrobe Play (MTI) 1-4 Writing: Text types and ago to present and plant-eaters –Continents Earth over time Read Song overcome great - Respectful purposes –Earth changes: challenges. Analyze still images audience Speaking & Listening: history of the Earth, for details and behavior - Comprehension and Pangea, continental predictions. - Passport to collaboration changes Adventure - Presentation skills –Middle Ages –Literary traditions –Castle culture (castle ● Individual or group Mystery parts, residents, life) - Concept tree houses - “Knight at of the –Feudal system Information can be The Knight at Knights and - Vocabulary ● Create Jack & Dawn KIDS” 2 Tree, –Methods of used in unexpected Dawn Castles - Cause & Effect Annie in their 30 minute Books protection: weapons ways to solve Read Read Writing: Text types and England favorite wardrobe Classroom 1-4 –King Arthur, Knights problems. Read Song purposes Play (MTI) of the Round table, Sir Study hard and use Speaking & Listening: Analyze still images - Passport to Lancelot, Sir for details and - Comprehension and your imagination. Adventure Galahand, Queen predictions. collaboration Guinevere, Morgan le - Presentation skills Fay –Egyptian culture Journeys to faraway - Concept ● Individual or group (lifestyle, religion, places can be - Vocabulary tree houses Mummies Mystery of customs for death wonderful, but just Mummies in - Cause & Effect –Interactions between ● Create Jack & 3 and the Tree, and afterlife) having a peanut the Morning Writing: Text types and humans and the Annie in their Pyramids Books 1-4 –Gods and –3D structures: –Egypt butter & jelly at Read Read - Passport to purposes environment favorite wardrobe goddesses pyramids –Nile River home can be as Read Song Adventure Speaking & Listening: –Water features: Nile –Architecture: wonderful. - Comprehension and River Analyze still images pyramids Be grateful for collaboration for details and - Communication - predictions. - Presentation skills those who care for Hieroglyphs you. Mary Pope Osborne’s Classroom Adventures Curriculum Key © copyright 2021, Mary Pope Osborne, all rights reserved.; p. !1 of 22! Book MTH Book MTH Book Correspond- Fact Tracker Book Language Arts Social Studies Science Math Geography Nature & Animals & Folklore, Character Building Visual Arts Music Theatre Arts # Cover Image Title ing Fact Title Cluster Conservation Wildlife Mythology & Lessons Tracker Legend –Gaining information Mystery of from diagrams (pirate the Tree, ships) ● Individual or group Books 1-4 tree houses –Genres: legend/lore –Pirate history and Your daily life is Pirates Past - Concept legends ● Create Jack & 4 Pirates filled with treasure. Noon 1st live - Vocabulary –Timeline: 1000 B.C. Annie in their –Water features: To find it, you must Read Read - Passport to encounter - Cause & Effect to present Caribbean favorite wardrobe oceans, seas look for the Read Song Adventure with Writing: Text types and –Transportation: Morgan purposes pirate ships positive things in Analyze still images le Fay Speaking & Listening: - Landform - Island your life. for details and predictions. - Comprehension and collaboration - Presentation skills –Using informational texts for research –Create a ninja –Poetry: haiku training camp. Mystery of Night of the the Magic - Concept 5 –Map skills ● Individual or group Ninjas Spell, - Vocabulary –Landforms: Learn from nature –Japanese vs. Ancient tree houses Read Read - Passport to Books 5-8 - Cause & Effect mountains, valleys, and always keep a American culture Japan ● Create Jack & Read Song Adventure Writing: Text types and and caves kind heart. –History of ninjas Annie in their purposes favorite wardrobe Speaking & Listening: - Analyze still - Comprehension and images for details collaboration and predictions. - Presentation skills –Research and –Onomatopoeia –Biomes/habitats: create an animal –Army ants –Animal idioms rain forest who lives in the –Piranhas –Animal research project –Climate rain forest AND/ –Snakes –Water features: OR Invent and –Rain Forest –Crocodiles Amazon River create a rain forest Mystery of –Place value Climate –Monkeys All creatures in the Afternoon on - Concept –Animal adaptations animal that has 6 Rain Forests the Magic problems -Rain Forest Plant –Jaguars wild are the Amazon - Vocabulary (physical and not yet been Spell, –Measurement Amazon Rain Life –Vampire bats interconnected. For Read Read - Passport to - Cause & Effect behavioral) discovered! Books 5-8 –Graphing: Forest - Many “Gifts” of - Poison Arrow them to survive, we Read Song Adventure Writing: Text types and - Animal Defenses favorite tropical the Rain Forest Frogs need to guard - Individual or group purposes –Camouflage fruit from plants tree houses Speaking & Listening: –Food chains: natural habitats. –Weather: rain Plant life: - Create Jack & - Comprehension and predators and prey - orchids, Annie in their collaboration –Rain forest mangos, cacao favorite wardrobe - Presentation skills preservation trees, etc. - Analyze still images for details and predictions. Mary Pope Osborne’s Classroom Adventures Curriculum Key © copyright 2021, Mary Pope Osborne, all rights reserved.; p. !2 of 22! Book MTH Book MTH Book Correspond- Fact Tracker Book Language Arts Social Studies Science Math Geography Nature & Animals & Folklore, Character Building Visual Arts Music Theatre Arts # Cover Image Title ing Fact Title Cluster Conservation Wildlife Mythology & Lessons Tracker Legend –Summarization –Make your own cave painting to –Ice Age summarize the –Food gathering –Animal adaptations Sabertooths Mystery of - Concept Never take the book. Sunset of the techniques (compare/ –Land features: cliffs, 7 and the Ice the Magic - Vocabulary Cro-Magnons, - Cave Men Tales: comforts of your Sabertooth contrast then and caves Age Spell, - Cause & Effect Wooly “Master of the modern life for ● Individual or group now) –Heat sources –Temperatures Read Read - Passport to Books 5-8 Writing: Text types and Mammoths, Animals” on cave granted. tree houses –Use of natural –Insulators Read Song Adventure purposes Sabertooth Cat walls Be grateful for the ● Create Jack & materials to survive –Human interactions Speaking & Listening: things your have. Annie in their with the environment - Comprehension and favorite wardrobe –Sound: flute collaboration - Analyze still - Presentation skills images for details and predictions. –Astronomy: the –Creative writing: time moon, Outer Space, –Create your own travel constellations space suit. - Concept –Gravity Mystery of - Vocabulary –Basic map skills Earth is a bright and –Phases of the moon Midnight on the Magic - Cause & Effect (mapping the moon colorful place where ● Individual or group 8 Space –Conditions on the - Passport to the Moon Spell, Writing: Text types and base, star map) –Temperature everything is alive tree houses moon Read Read Adventure Books 5-8 purposes –Transportation: –Weight Moon/Space and always ● Create Jack & –Earth science: Read Song - Planetarium Speaking & Listening: moon buggy conversion changing. Annie in their compare/contrast Show - Comprehension and - Space exploration Help protect the favorite wardrobe moon and Earth collaboration - Famous astronauts features planet. - Presentation skills Analyze still images - Technology - for details and - Predicting - space satellites, moon predictions. station future buggy, space station –Main ideas and supporting details Mystery of ● Individual or group the - Biomes/habitats: tree houses Dolphins at Dolphins and Ancient - Concept ocean Beauty can be ● Create Jack & 9 –Dolphins Daybreak Sharks Riddles, - Vocabulary Careers: –Animal adaptations found in the most Annie in their Pacific –Ocean- Read Read - Passport to Books - Cause & Effect oceanographer, scuba - Technology - mini- - Ocean life unexpected places. favorite wardrobe Ocean dwelling Read Song Adventure 9-12 Writing: Text types and diver, marine biologist submarine for Always keep an animals purposes underwater open mind. Analyze still images Speaking & Listening: exploration for details and predictions. - Comprehension and collaboration - Presentation skills Mary Pope Osborne’s Classroom Adventures Curriculum Key © copyright 2021, Mary Pope Osborne, all rights reserved.; p. !3 of 22! Book MTH Book MTH Book Correspond- Fact Tracker Book Language Arts Social Studies Science Math Geography Nature & Animals & Folklore, Character Building Visual Arts Music Theatre Arts # Cover Image Title ing Fact Title Cluster Conservation Wildlife Mythology & Lessons Tracker Legend –Literature extension: ghost stories People who lived Mystery of long ago still talk to ● Individual or group the –Biomes/habitats: tree houses –Rabbit us through books. Ghost Town Ancient - Concept prairie ● Create Jack & –Player 10 adaptations Learn to read and at