Storm in the Night
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Storm in the Night
In the dark, with smells and sounds and lightening-lit sights of the storm all around them, Grandfather tells Thomas a very special story about when he was a boy.
Why are we featuring this book?
Storm in the Night is a book featured in Five in a Row, a literature-based unit study curriculum. Many families use FIAR for all but the Grammar / Reading and Math, and others use it in conjunction with other resources. Below you will find information about the author and illustrator, story summaries, and links to lesson plans and websites that are great go-alongs for Storm in the Night. Please note that these resources are meant to complement, not replace, the Five in a Row units. The Five in a Row volumes are inexpensive and well worth the investment. Digital downloads of the FIAR volumes and supplementary resources like Fold & Learn™ (paper manipulatives similar to lapbooks) are available to enhance your units.
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Author page
Illustrator Page
Other books by Pat Cummings
Go-Alongs:
Online Units and Resources for Storm in the Night
Literature resources for younger children
A large number of FIAR resource for specific books as well as general resources that can be used with any literature. Includes Elements of a Story Bookmark, World Traveler Passport, Classic Story Timeline, President Chart & President Disks and more. Scroll down for the links to the downloads. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader. (Y,M)
Lapbook Example
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Clouds
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Go-alongs about Quilts
Native American Activities - From LessonPlanspage.com activites for creating Native American Dioramas, homes and quilts. 3rd grade (Y)
Thematic unit on quilts - Basically a list of good resources for a quilting unit. (Y)
Go-alongs about Light
ChesLights Kids - From the Chesapeake Chapter of the U.S. Lighthouse Society's. Kids page contains, puzzles, crafts, and information about lighthouses. (Y, M)
FlashlightNext Sci - From PBS Kids.com (Y)
Fresnel Lens - The Fresnel lens is the 1822 invention of French physicist Augustine Fresnel who invented a lens that would make his name commonplace along the seacoasts of Europe and North America. (Y. M)
How a Fresnel Lens Works - Video from PBS (Y, M)
Legendary Lighthouses - from PBS, learn how lighthouses work (Y, M)
Light and Shadow Units - A to Z Teacher Stuff (Y)
Light and shadows - Review children's existing understanding of light and dark by helping them to draw a concept map linking their ideas about light, using terms eg light, dark, night, day, light source, seeing, shiny, Sun, Earth, lighting up, sunshine. Discuss children's ideas with them. Grade 3 (Y)
Lighthouse page - Assorted links to websites about lighthouses including lesson plans and many facts (Y, M, O)
Lighthouses, A Photographic Journey - Lighthouses are listed alphabetically, or by body of water, or in order of a travel journey taken by the photographers. (Y, M, O)
Pictures From Light - Explores bending light; due to the risks of A) starting a fire and B) damaging their eyes, students should be supervised for these activities. (Y,M)
See the Light - Through ThinkQuest a web site devoted to teaching people about light (Y, M, O, T)
Shine On - Why you can't see stars during the day; a Magic School Bus worksheet. (Y)
The Fresnel Lens - Because of its amazing efficiency, a Fresnel lens could easily throw its light 20 or more miles to the horizon. Learn more about this amazing lighthouse feature. (Y, M)
The Real-Life Adventures of Wobbles The Lighthouse Kitty - Wobbles lighthouse information for kids! (Y, M)
Go-alongs about Senses
American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller - Deaf and blind from infancy, Helen Keller played a leading role in most of the significant political, social, and cultural movements of the 20th century. Throughout her lifetime (1880-1968) she worked unceasingly to improve the lives of people who were blind and deaf. (Y, M, O, T)
Audition (Hearing) - Neuroscience for kids (Y)
Braille - From Omniglot - writing systems and languages of the world (Y, M, O, T)
Braille Name Tag - Fill in the dots to write your name in braille. (Y)
Come to your senses - Use an online Mr. Potato Head to learn about the senses. (Y,M)
Decibel Levels - From CoolMath4Kids.com (Y, M, O, T)
Ear Anatomy - From Enchanted Learning. (Y)
Eggs filled with sound - Plastic eggs will be filled with various objects and children will need to use their sense of hearing to figure out what is inside. Preschool, K, 1-2 (Y)
HELEN KELLER - From Garden of Praise (Y,M)
Helen Keller - From Surfing the Net with Kids (Y,M)
Helen Keller Biography - From The Braille Bug (Y,M)
Helen Keller Birthplace - Ivy Green is the birthplace of Helen Keller. "The map shows you around Tuscumbia, Alabama and the local area... There is something spiritually uplifting about touching the actual well-pump where Anne Sullivan reached into the dark silent world of young Helen Keller's mind and opened the window of communication." (Y, M, O, T)
Helen Keller Kids Museum Online - An interactive virtual experience from the American Foundation for the Blind (Y,M)
Helen Keller Unit Study - From Garden of Praise (Y,M)
Kids Konnect - Helen Keller - A safe Internet gateway for kids of all ages! (Y,M)
Let Us Have Faith by Helen Keller - From MyHero.com (Y,M)
Louis Braille Biography - From the American Foundation for the Blind (Y,M)
Louis Braille:A Touch of Genius - From National Braille Press (Y, M, O, T)
Our 5 senses - Hands on activities for teaching the 5 senses (Y)
Senses - BrainPop movies explain balance, hearing, taste, vision problems, eyes, smell and touch. (Y,M)
Senses, The Five - Mathematics, Science and Language objectives; Vocabulary and Concept Web Grades K, 1, 2, 3 (Y)
Sight (Vision) - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers vision lesson plans for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Smell (Olfaction) - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Olfaction lesson plans for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Stick out your tongue and say "aah" - from Kids' Health, lots of info about the tongue and taste (Y,M)
Taste (Gustation) - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers gustation lesson plans for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Teacher Hero: Louis Braille - From My Hero Project (Y, M, O, T)
Teaching children about the five senses - from the Illinois Extension office, lessons for teaching the senses (Y)
The Braille Bug Site - From the American Foundation for the Blind (Y,M)
The Incredible Human Body: The Five Senses - Designed for a group, but contains good questions to spark discussion. Lessons fore different age levels. (Y, M, O, T)
The Life of Helen Keller - About the life of Helen Keller, the deafblind woman who became a role model for millions of people (Y, M, O, T)
The life of Louis Braille - From the Royal National Institute of the Blind (Y, M, O, T)
The Senses Working Together - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Touch Experiments for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
The Sound Site - The Sound Site is part of the Sound Project, a partnership between the Science Museum and the Minnesota Orchestra. The site's purpose is to present activities, discussions and multimedia explorations about sound, both from a scientific and artistic perspective. (Y, M, O, T)
Touch Experiments - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Touch Experiments for grades K-12. (Y, M, O, T)
We need all five senses - uses experiments to show our need for the senses (Y)
Go-alongs about Weather
Bibliography of Materials to AccompanySnowflake Bentley - (Y)
EasyFunSchool Weather Unit - Activity, ideas, resources, and many links to weather websites (Y, M, O, T)
Guide to Snowflake Bentley - pdf file from Weston Wood productions. grades 1-3 and 4-5 (Y)
Making paper Snowflake - Get flaky with a snowflake for all seasons. (Y)
Snow Flakes - hexagonal symmetry - A study of snowflakes; hexagonal symmetry (Y, M, O, T)
SnowCrystals.com - Every winter I am again amazed at snowflakes. This intriguing site from a physics professor at Caltech is full of images of beautifully intricate designs found in snow and gives you insight into the science behind them. Pick up some snowflake wallpaper for your computer while you are there. (Y, M, O, T)
Weather watch - in-depth teaching resources from Scholastic.com (Y, M, O, T)
Weather Wiz Kids® - Hi everybody! I’m Meteorologist Crystal Wicker . I'm a television meteorologist for the ABC affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana. I designed this website especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. It’s also a wonderful educational website for teachers and parents that gives them the right tools they need to explain the different types of weather to children. (Y)
