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Tom Rees’s high school picture from back in the day!!!

The Men of the Mustang Team invite you to the Baby Shower of Baby Showers!!!!

For: Thomas and Katy Rees

When: February 9, 2011

Where: The luxurious Media Center of SWMS

Time: As soon as the kids leave!!!

Come out and see how the Men of the Mustang Team reinvent the fine art of putting on a Baby Shower

They are naming their child after us; his or her name will be James Jason Tony Rees or Jameshia Jasona Antonia Rees…….

The lesson plan...

Teacher Name	Men of the Mustang Team
Lesson Title	Thomas and Katy Rees’s Baby Shower
Curriculum Area	Adult Activities Education
Grade Level	You can come up with that on your own!!!
Curriculum Objective	The objective is to show the entire school that we as the “Men of the Mustang Team” can out do any other team in hosting a baby shower.
Technology Objective	They may have used some type of technology, but it will not be presented. This is a rated G baby shower.
Essential Question What curriculum related question should students be able to answer at the end of this lesson?	How this gift to the world was created?
Activity Summary Write one sentence describing the activities you will use to help students learn and apply new information.	The activities we use today will be fun and interactive for all.
Activating Strategy Describe the strategy you will use activate what students already know about the topic you are teaching. Suggested Strategies: q Anticipation/Reaction Guide q Brainstorming q Journals q Written Lab Work q Possible Sentences q ? q The First Word q Think-Pair-Share q Partner Interviews q Walk Around Survey	Hands on! (that’s obvious!!!!!) Activities: 1.) Place a box and scrap paper out for people to write advice, funny stories, or comments about the upcoming birth 2.) The first game we will play is the one with the toilet paper, the person that tears off the proper amount of toilet paper wins a prize! 3.) The happy father to be and another person will have to dress a baby doll blind-folded, that’s right blind-folded.

Cognitive Strategy

Describe the strategy will you use to help students transform/manipulate information from one format to another. This strategy should help students to organize and comprehend information in multiple contexts for the purpose of increasing retention and transference.

Suggested Strategies:

q Graphic Organizers

q Content Mapping

q Dump and Clump

q Problem/Process Chart

q Problem/Solution Guide

q Foldables

q Lab(s)

q Sentence Expansion

q Story Impressions

q Story Maps

q ?

q Talking Drawings

q Trading Cards

q Two-Column Notes

q Venn Diagram

q Vocabulary Mapping

During this stage of the activity, we will open gifts and enjoy the wonderful bounty.

Summary Strategy

Describe the strategy will you use at the end of your lesson to help determine if students can answer the lesson’s Essential Question.

Suggested Strategies:

q ?

q Exit Slips

q Graphic Organizer

q Learning Logs

q Student Facilitated Review

q Sort Card Review

q Oral Review

Your ticket out the door will be your participation and your gift!

Resources and Materials What resources and materials will you need to teach this lesson?	Assistance from all that came out to view the best baby shower ever!
Re-teaching and Enrichment Activities How would you extend students’ understanding of the lesson concepts through another activity or by re-teaching a concept that needs more explanation?	If we have to re-teach, they will have to make another crumbsnatcher!!!!
Modifications Are there any students for whom you need to make learning modifications?	Some of you need modifications…….
Multiple Intelligences: Describe how you are addressing students’ multiple intelligences in this lesson q Bodily-Kinesthetic q Interpersonal q Intrapersonal q Linguistic q Logical-Mathematical q Musical q Naturalist q Spatial	You didn’t think we could do this, the MUSTANG MEN rule!!!!!

The food...

The friends...

The games...

The gifts....

It was a wonderful shower! Thanks to my teammates and all our friends at Southwest!

I've been in my book club for about 5 years now. My mentor and a fellow teacher invited me to come during my first year of teaching. For those of you who have been a first year teacher, you know how much stress it can be. So, I decided that it would be nice to be involved in something that wasn't completely school related.

Needless to say, I'm glad I did. The best part about book club is that no one cares if you had a busy month and didn't read the book. Or, if you started to read it, didn't like it, and decided not to finish it. No judgement. Just a group of ladies (most who are or were involved in the education field) getting together once a month to discuss a book....and school....and life. Oh, and there is usually some good food too!

In January, book club threw me a baby shower. Brees got some cute outfits, books, and toys.