Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

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Writing Prompts

  • Describe the ideal Christmas tree.
  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a real versus an artificial Christmas tree.
  • Write about your first Christmas toy.
  • Write a story about the best gift you ever gave to someone else.
  • Write a news story about the Sac and Fox land run for Edward McCabe's newspaper, The Langston City Herald.
  • Write a news story about Oklahoma's first African American farmers.
  • Write a day in the life of a cotton field.
  • Begin a story with this sentence: "The fields were white with cotton."
  • Use all these words in a paragraph: sorghum, sweet, grain, cattle, gingerbread.
  • Use online or library resource to research the advantages of making biofuels from grain sorghum vs. making them from corn. Write a paper to show your findings.
  • Keep a journal for the month of December showing how the length of days affects your activities.
  • Pretend you are an ancient farmer on the shortest day of the year. What are your thoughts?
  • Write a poem about carrots.
  • Write a poem about plums.

P.A.S.S.

  • Grade 1: Writing - 2.1,3,4,5
  • Grade 2: Writing - 2.2abc,4,5
  • Grade 3: Writing - 2.3ab,5,6abc
  • Grade 4: Reading - 5.1a,2ad. Writing - 2.1abcd,2,4abcdefgh
  • Grade 5: Reading - 5.1a,2be, Writing - 2.1,2,5abcdefg,6abcd
  • Grade 6: Reading - 5.1abc,2cd. Writing - 2.1abc,2abcd,7
  • Grade 7: Reading - 5.1ab,2cd. Writing - 2.1bcd,2abc,4b,8
  • Grade 8: Reading - 5.1a,2b. Writing - 2.1a,2ab,5a,8

 


December Page

Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

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Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom is a program of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the Oklahoma State Department of Education.