Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Pantomime what was written; class guesses answers.

Objective: Using three drawings, students will complete a book about the neighborhood as a habitat.

Activity: Students will choose three different school and/or neighborhood locations and illustrate them. Students will write independently or through dictation the locations represented. An idea for the book is, "Here I am. I am _______." by Room 6. Example: "Here I am. I am sitting in my chair . . . sleeping in my bed . . . etc. One paper (12" x 18") could be folded into thirds for each student to draw the three pictures.

Assessment: Students complete book showing three different locations.