Unit Openers
Here are unit opener ideas submitted by teachers for each of the Open Court units. Please submit your own ideas here.
Kindergarten:
School
Shadows
Finding Friends
The Wind
Stick To It
Red, White, and Blue
Teamwork
By the Sea (submit ideas here)
First Grade:
Look Who’s Reading/Let’s Read
Animals
Our Neighborhood at Work
Weather
Machines in the Garden
Things That Go
Captain Pinkney’s Journey/Journeys
Games
Folktales
Keep Trying
Being Afraid
Homes
Second Grade:
Sharing Stories
Kindness
Look Again
Fossils
Courage
Our Country and Its People
Third Grade:
Friendship
City Wildlife
Imagination
Money
Storytelling
Country Life
Fourth Grade:
Risks and Consequences
Dollars and Sense/Dreams to Jobs
Mystery to Medicine
Survival
Communication
A Changing America
Fifth Grade:
Cooperation and Competition
Astronomy
Heritage
The Civil War (2000)
Making a New Nation (2002)
New Frontiers/Going West
Journeys and Quests
