City Dog Country Frog Activities and Mentor Text lesson ideas are here! Find reading comprehension and writing ideas to use with this amazing book by Mo Willems. City Dog, Country Frog Mentor Text I don't remember the exact moment I fell in love with City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems. I think it was actually a love at first sight sort of thing. I love the theme that two individuals who are so different can still find a true ...
Animals
What if You Had Animal Parts Lesson Plans.. Looking at text details
What if you had animal parts lesson plans for kindergarten and first grade! My students have always loved these books and we are really excited to that we are creating a new Engaging Reader series for these an awesome read aloud! What if you had animal parts books! If you are not familiar with these books, here is a peek! These are the four books (affiliate links) we wrote lesson plans for: What If You Had Animal Feet? What If ...
Dinosaur Week is HERE!
Kindergarten dinosaur week activity ideas for the classroom are here! Nothing made my students more excited that a dinosaur themed week! Here are some ideas you can use! Dinosaur Read Aloud Books We love Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by MoWilliems. This book is hilarious! For this book we focused on the following reading skills/strategies: Making Predictions Retelling with Details Making ...
Zoo Lesson Plans
Zoo Lesson Plans for the book A Sick Day for Amos McGee! This is one of my favorite books, so when Deanna Jump and I were putting our reading comprehension units together, I KNEW we needed this sweet story. A Sick Day for Amos McGee is the story of one zookeeper who takes fantastic care of the animals in the zoo. He is so gentle and loving to the zoo animals. Then one day, Amos gets sick and the animals go to his ...
Otis Lesson Plans ~ Farm week
Otis by Loren Long is one of my favorite stories. So naturally, we included Otis lesson plans in our Guiding Readers series! Deanna has worked hard and added the Otis craft to the units. Close Reading Otis is such a sweet character. I sincerely cry when I read this book because he is so precious. If feels like the message of kindness and selflessness in our world has never been more important. So spending a week on this book is worth ...
Little Red Hen Lesson Plans (FREE Resource)
The Little Red Hen is one of our favorite traditional stories. Here are lesson plans for your Little Red Hen week (or weeks). Reading, writing, math, crafts, and science lessons make this easy for teachers and fun for your students. I even whipped up a little FREE file for you too! The books! So many Little Red Hen Books! Here are the three that are featured in our Little Red Hen Unit! The Little Red Hen by Paul ...
Ocean Week Lesson Plans (AKA Shark Week)
Do you love ocean week as much as me? Here is a little ocean week AKA Shark WEEK flashback. This might be my favorite theme to teach all YEAR! I can't get enough! Perhaps it is because I lived the majority of my life in San Diego or I first considered a career as a marine biologist or maybe because ocean week is a signal that the end of the year is right around the corner. Regardless, I seriously love talking about the ...
What a PIGSTY of a week!
This week we read Pigsty by Mark Teague and we had quite a week! As you may know, we take one book and dive deep into it for an interactive read aloud. This enables us to teach with deep comprehension. Close Reading During these lessons, I do the reading work and the students do the thinking work. Most of the thinking is done with student-partner conversations, but we also respond with writing too. Why do you think ...
Oviparous Animals Lesson Plans ~ Peek at my Week
We have always loved learning about oviparous and viviparous animals! Here are some oviparous animals lesson plans for your kindergarten class. Last year we loved learning about oviparous animals during our April's Guiding Readers . We spent the week digging deep in the book, Chickens Aren't the Only Ones by Ruth Heller. We wrote about our Schema. And documented our new ...
Retelling with Tacky the Penguin
Here are some kindergarten penguin lesson plans! We have always loved learning about these funny little creatures! Tacky the Penguin We are able to pair informational text with narrative text perfectly with this favorite book! We sure love this book! Tacky the Penguin: Making Predictions During the reading of the book, we paused to make a few predictions. Sometimes our writing is just creating illustrations. ...
Owl Lesson Plans ~ Peek at my Week
Owls are fascinating and this informational text, White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies, is spectacular. Check out how we spent the week learning about owls. Owl Lesson Plans: Read Aloud Texts Just like her other texts, she has both a narrative and informational text in one! Just like the rest of our engaging readers, we spend a week with this book. Each day we read it for a different purpose. In this way, we can dive ...
Bat Lesson Plans ~ Peek at my Week
Bat week is always one of my favorite weeks! Here are some kindergarten bat lesson plans, including a few books, a video, and printables! This is my ALL TIME favorite read aloud. I love just about everything Nicola Davies has ever written. This video has some great information about bats. After reading and learning about bats, we put our new knowledge to print in our content area study. Deanna's Bat unit ...
Peek at my Week – Kindergarten Farm Activities
Here is a peek at my week filled with kindergarten farm activities! Farm Themed Sentence Work Each morning we start our day with these Read, Trace, Glue, and Draw pages. There are two levels so you can differentiate the work. Some students write the sentence... and some students trace the sentence. I always love to see their illustrations.! Farm themed math and literacy activities Stamping station is always fun! This farm ...
Peek at my Week-Groundhog Week!
He's back! I sort of love the non-pressure of Groundhog's Day! A new month means it is time of me to swap out my monthly staples! Our writing station is up and ready for February! I am ready for President's Day... Knock on wood... we will not have a snow make-up day that day. We have not seen much snow here in Missouri this year, but we are playing games like we have! Differentiated Cubes can be found HERE. My class never ...
The Emperor’s Egg Unit of Study
Kindergarten Penguin Resources for informational text study makes penguin week was pretty spectacular! Penguin Informational Texts The Emperor's Egg by Martin Jenkins is a fantastic book! This book pairs informational text with narrative texts! Love it! Here are a few pages of the book. We also have this book as part of our Reading Comprehension/Guiding Readers units. We learned a TON about penguins. ...
Peek at my Week-Bats! (and a Giveaway)
Last week was a busy week. On Wednesday we celebrated Missouri Day at our school. We kicked our day off with some square dancing. Yes, that is me Do-Si-Doing with the 4th graders. They needed a stand in, so I was it! They kept me straight, nothing got broken... I call that a WIN! We got to feed a mule (Missouri's state animal)... plus a million other fun adventures! Next week we are going to really hit those long vowel sounds. I ...
Peek at my Week (week 5)
Fall is in the air. This weekend is downright chilly! This week we're working with these kindergarten farm lesson plans! Last week we really zeroed in on rhyming. I used the cute Show and Tell Apron to play a little "odd man out" with rhyming cards {unit coming soon.} I love the apron that I got while I was in Vegas. Rumor has it that these aprons sold out at the conference in less than 24 hours. She has added them to her TpT store and ...
Laura Numeroff Mentor Texts
Laura Numeroff Mentor Texts! This week we used Laura Numeroff;'s books as a mentor text for writers workshop and reading. See some of the anchor charts that we created in my kindergarten classroom. Laura Numeroff Mentor Texts We started the week by reading these fun books by Laura Numeroff. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie If You Give a Pig a Pancake If You Give a Moose a Muffin If You Give a Dog a Donut If You Give a Cat a ...
Farm Fun!
We have been having a great time learning more about farms and their animals. For our morning work we have been reconstructing these predictable sentences. Click on the image to go to my TpT product. The Rademacher Dairy Farm brought out these beauties. The Rademachers are 5th generation dairy farmers~Amazing!!! I TOTALLY wanted to take the little honey home! She does not have a name yet, but we named her ...
Penguins! Penguins! Penguins!
Learning About Penguins in Kindergarten! Anchor charts, book recommendations, and science lesson too! Penguin Books Last week we started our Non-fiction unit on penguins. We read numerous books about penguins and monitored our thinking. Books such as: Here are some of the books we used. (click on the covers to find these books *affiliate links) *NOTE OF WARNING: In the book Penguin Chick, there is a ...