Social Studies

1. Research examples of bridges.
2. Display pictures of bridges (e.g., Golden Gate Bridge).
3. Study famous bridges from around the world.

1. Play the singing game "London Bridges is Falling Down".
2. Continue playing the game until all participants have been captured.

1. Make a mural of the tale The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
2. Sequence the story in the order it happened.
3. Draw each scence from the story on bulletin-board paper.
4. Color the mural with chalk dipped in water.

1. Construct a bridge out of simple materials (i.e., tongue depressors or popsicle sticks, and modeling clay) that will keep the goats safe from the troll.
2. discuss how to make bridge structures strong using triangular shapes.
3. Share troll-safe bridges with each other.

1. Count the number of billy goats.
2. Use up a simple story problem. (i.e., if one billy goat ate two bags of grass for a whole week, how much grass would it eat?)
3. Have the class devise its own story problems.

1. Discuss one classification for animals (e.g, grouped by food they eat).
2. Classify animals as plant eaters (herbivores), meat eaters (carnivores), or everything eaters (omnivorous).
3. Draw an example of adaptations for each classification (e.g., cow teeth, bear claws, owl head).

1. Use tapping on drums to approximate the sound each billy goat made as it crossed the bridge.
2. Have children guess which billy goat is crossing the bridge from its drum beat.

1. Read the fictional tale The Three Billy Goats Gruf.
2. Draw each attempt the goats made to solve their problem.
3. Sequence the drawings to tell a story.
4. Have students reenact the story.
5. Allow students to present their version of The Three Billy Goats Gruff to another class or parents.

1. Elicit what billy goats eat.
2. Ask: "Is it true that goats will eat anything?"
3. Compare what goats eat to the four basic food groups humans choose from for a healthy diet.

• Favorite Fairy Tales/ Hans Christian Andersen
• New True Book of Bridges/Carlisle
• How Things Work/McCauley

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