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How Our Program Aligns to the Curriculum:
 Our Humane Education program is not only important in building character for our students, but it also provides great content for mastering skills in the School District of Philadelphia's Core Curriculum as well as Pennsylvania state standards.

These photographs show an activity that demonstrates students' understanding of the four types of sentences. We used macaroni to shape the correct punctuation marks for each. This activity was done following our second visit with Citizens for a No-Kill Philadelphia. The sentences are about meeting the dogs Jack and Little Mama, and other information obtained from our classroom visits.

Below is a Flipchart which was used to reinforce the grammar skill of identifying compound subjects and predicates. Students work together to slide the compound subjects to the left hand side of the T-chart and the compound predicates to the right hand side of the T-chart. This lesson was used following a classroom visit from author, Judith Kristen and her dog, Henley.

Using this article, written by Megan Drake from the Philadelphia Animal Advocate Examiner, students practiced their summarizing skills.

After reading the article, students chose one of the following strategies to help retell the story: Somebody Wanted But So, 5 Ws, 2Ws, Magnet Summary, Narrative Elements Web