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K–2nd Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Transportation, Dennise Torres, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Suggested Weekly Schedule

Day 1 • Design and name your Buddy, Check the weather, Weekly words - types of transportation, What is transportation?, Weekly words - verbs, What is a verb?, Letter of the day - R

Day 2 • Check the weather, Transportation book, Favorite way to travel, Count and graph, Letter of the day - S

Day 3 • Check the weather, Acting out verbs, Sort, Matching games - verbs, Letter of the day - T

Day 4 • Check the weather, Singular and plural, Patterns, Where would you go?, Letter of the day - U

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3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Community, Sarah E. Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, My community, Matching game, My 5 senses: in my community

Day 2 • Geometric shapes, My community in geometric shapes, Get up and move!, Geometric shapes on my walk

Day 3 • My first community in geometric shapes, Compare and contrast: my communities, geometric shapes: perimeter and area, Get up and move! yoga

Day 4 • My communities by Mateo (Mexico and Nebraska), Compare and contrast: my communities, My communities writing, Get up and move!, Angels in my community

Day 5 • My community, My dictionary, Word search, Crossword puzzle, My week

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Rainforests, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Activities

Choose a Buddy

Packet #5 outline: rainforests

Sorting sight words

Sorting sight words match

Parts of a plant vocabulary

Read, label, and write

Life cycle of an apple tree

Sequence of a plant life cycle

Rainforest vocabulary

Rainforests

Rainforest vocabulary cards

Layers of the rainforest

My rainforest habitat

Rainforest report

Spelling my words

The Jaguar and the Mouse (adapted from Aesop's fable)

Character's feelings

Feelings chart

Creative writing

Nouns, adjectives, and verbs

Decimals to fractions

Rainforest fraction facts

Learn to draw bats

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Oceans, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Packet #4 outline: oceans

Choose a Buddy

Sight word phrases 1-minute race

Ocean vocabulary

Ocean vocabulary cards

Oceans

My informational text in 3-2-1

Texting my vocabulary words

Creative writing

Deserts

Compare and contrast

Rounding numbers

Rounding ocean numbers

Our planet's oceans

Paper plate fish

How to solve a crossword puzzle

My vocabulary crossword

Let's move!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Traveling To Mexico, Ronnie Grace, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Mexico!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Mexico's flag, Mexico's language, Pack your suitcase!, Mexico's climate, What do you know? What do you want to learn?, Let's go to Mexico!

Day 2 • Vocab review, Weather in Mexico, Instagram post!, Mexico's geography (land), Geography questions, Math review

Day 3 • Vocab review, Math review, Soccer in Mexico, Your turn!, Sugar skull art

Day 4 • Vocab review, Chichén Itzá, Plants in Mexico, What is the same and what is different?, Money in Mexico

Day 5 • Vocab review, "Juego de …

3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Space And Time, Sarah E. Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Space, time, and weather, Matching game, Solar system, Time

Day 2 • Calendars, Months of the year, My favorite month, Days of the week, My daily schedule

Day 3 • The four seasons, Season: fall, Season: winter, Season: spring, Season: summer, Get up and move!

Day 4 • Weather, Weather and seasons, Observe light and shadows, get up and move!

Day 5 • Space, time, and weather, Word search, Crossword puzzle, My dictionary, My week

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Australia, Ronnie Grace, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Australia!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Australia's flag, Pack your suitcase!, What do you know? What do you need to know?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, Australia's geography, Geography questions, Math practice

Day 3 • Math practice, Rugby vs. football, Great Barrier Reef

Day 4 • Vocabulary review, Wildfires in Australia. Australian Outback

Day 5 • Vocab practice, What did you learn in Australia?, The Sydney Opera House, Goodbye, Australia!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Introductions & Feelings, Tricia Ramaekers, Mary Royers, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Where am I?, Feelings vocabulary, It's nice to meet you, About me, Daily journal

Day 2 • Feelings and time, How old are you?, Word unscramble, Opposite feelings, How are you feeling? comic strip, Daily journal

Day 3 • How do they feel?, How to solve a word search, Feelings word search, How are you feeling? comic strip, Daily journal

Day 4 • Sequencing comic strip, About them, Emoji dictionary, Daily journal

Day 5 • Essential question: how am I feeling today?, Daily journal

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Introductions [Students With Interrupted Formal Learning], Jessica Millen, Brooke David, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Introduce yourself, Introduce someone else, Say and write letters: the English alphabet

Day 2 • Talking to a friend reading, Talking to a friend writing, Talking to a friend speaking

Day 3 • I am poem

Day 4 • New vocabulary, Say, Write, Categorize likes and dislikes

Day 5 • All about me

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Russia, Ronnie Grace, Aaron Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Russia!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Now it's your turn!, Russia's flag, Pack your suitcase!, What do you know? What do you want to learn?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, Time to write, Russia's climate, Questions!, Math practice

Day 3 • Vocabulary review, Time to write, Math practice, Let's write poetry!

Day 4 • Vocabulary review, White Night festival, Now it's your turn!, Russian money and way of life, Your turn!

Day 5 • Stargazing in Russia, Your turn!, Cathedrals in Russia, Your turn!, Postcard reflection, Goodbye, Russia!

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3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Hobbies, Sarah E. Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, My hobbies, Matching game, My hobbies self portrait, My favorite hobby, Write about your hobbies

Day 2 • Science: force and motion, Hobbies interview, Graph: family hobbies

Day 3 • Science: force and motion, Energy, Get up and move!

Day 4 • Energy. Science: force and motion, Teach your buddy how to play your favorite sport or game, Get up and move: force and motion!

Day 5 • Word search, Crossword puzzle, Write about your hobbies, My dictionary, My week

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Egypt, Ronnie Grace, Aaron Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Egypt!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Egypt's flag, Pack your suitcase! What do you know? What do you want to learn?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, The desert in Egypt, Desert questions, Math practice

Day 3 • Math practice. Whirling in Egypt, Good luck animals in Egypt, Your turn!

Day 4 • Vocabulary practice, Pyramids in Egypt, Your turn!, Way of life in Egypt

Day 5 • Make a pyramid, Falafel, Reflection activity, Goodbye, Egypt!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Family, Tricia Ramaekers, Mary Royers, Claudia T. Yunes, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words

Family vocabulary

Family vocabulary practice

Family vocabulary writing practice

Family names

This is my family

Physical characteristics vocabulary

Memory game

True or false?

My family tree

My relationships

Sentence frames

Actions

Action sentences

A family story

My family story

Gendered vocabulary

Physical descriptions

Vocabulary dictionary

Essential questions

Math numbers practice

Numbers in word form and expanded form

Let's move!

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Finding Your Voice, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Finding your voice: what does it mean to vote?, History of voting, Neighborhood walk: collecting data, Graphing data

Day 2 • Choosing the right path for you, Superlatives and comparatives, Describing the data

Day 3 • Vote by mail: is it safe, fair and ready for November? by Christian Science Monitor, adapted by Newsela staff, Mathematics of voting

Day 4 • 2020 Presidential election issues, Taking a stand

Day 5 • Comparing the Presidential candidates, Who would you choose for our next President?

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Who Am I?, Morgan Spanel, Aaron Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Who am I? reading comprehension, Create your own family tree, Calculating ages, Family tree vocabulary practice

Day 2 • Cute features caused by gene mutations by ThoughtCo.com, adaptation by Newsela staff, Examining fingerprints, Find and complete the pattern, Practicing sequence words and phrases

Day 3 • What do dominant and recessive mean? by Washington Post, adapted by Newsela staff, Practicing with Punnett squares, My own dominant and recessive genetics, Graphic genetic traits

Day 4 • Who am I? Barack Obama: timeline of important events, Timeline of interesting events from my life, Mirella's eyes: identifying sequence language, Family …

9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Finding Your Voice, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Finding your voice, week 2: defending your opinion, Who do you think is the better basketball player?, Identifying compare and contrast language, Practicing compare & contrast words and phrases

Day 2 • Pro & con language, Is your pet really your best friend?

Day 3 • Pet ownership, The science behind decision making and preferences, What's in YOUR brain?

Day 4 • Pro & con language, Measuring circles

Day 5 • Standing up for what you believe, Journal: write your opinion on your chose issue

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11th–12th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Frederick Douglass, Trevin Wurm, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Frederick Douglass: journal, Who was Frederick Douglass?, Math: story problems

Day 2 • What is something you had to work hard for?: journal, What is a quote?, Math: story problems

Day 3 • Tell me a story of a time when you helped someone: journal, Draw a picture, Using "a" and "an," Math: story problems

Day 4 • Contribute/contributed/contribution, Math: story problems

Day 5 • What can you contribute to your school?: journal, Math: story problems

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Community Helpers [Students With Interrupted Formal Schooling], Jessica Millen, Brooke David, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Community helpers vocabulary, Community walk, What is the problem?

Day 2 • Can you help me please?, Who can help you at school?

Day 3 • Ku Moo helps

Day 4 • Who do you help?, Planning for writing: beginning, middle, and end, Check the plan, Plan your writing: Beginning, middle, end

Day 5 • Writing a personal narrative: beginning, middle, and end, Read Mukendi's story, Write your personal narrative: beginning, middle, end

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9th–12th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Family, Mary Royers, Tricia Ramaekers, Claudia T. Yunes, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words

Family vocabulary

This is my family

My family tree

Physical characteristics vocabulary

Memory game

True or false?

Physical descriptions

Family member symbols

Altar to remember

Gendered vocabulary

My relationships

How old are you?

Family and food

Question words

Pastimes vocabulary

Likes and dislikes

Family pastimes

Comparisons

Pastime locations

Math numbers practice

Numbers in word form and expanded form

Let's move!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: School, Tricia Ramaekers, Mary Royers, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words

School vocabulary

Write and draw

Try the words in a sentence

Class vocabulary

Matching vocabulary

Class schedule

My schedule

School actions

Prepositions introduction

Vocabulary cards: prepositions

People at school

Job description

Drawing prepositions

How to open a lock

Lock combination

Make a safety plan

Your turn!

Similarities and differences

Facts and opinions about classrooms

Compare and contrast

Safety and school

Vocabulary dictionary

Essential question

Angles and polygons

Let's take a break!

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