This back-to-school book is great for the beginning of the year. I added a free name activity that your students will love! Math and literacy center ideas are also included in this blog post.
Chrysanthemum Lesson Plans for Kindergarten and First Grade! This is a great book to use for the beginning of the year. You can find the book by clicking HERE. (affiliate).
One of the comprehension lessons that we include in this unit is comparing the characters in these two Kevin Henkes books: Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse and Chrysanthemum.
This is how we set up our comparison anchor chart.
Here are a few of the student response pages for this activity.
You can see these kindergarten students made their meaning known through their illustrations. It is important to remember that the power of these units are in the discussions that take place during the interactive read aloud. Students work with their reading partner as they dig deeper into the details and meaning of each text.
Here are a few first grade reading response samples from the inferring and opinion writing activities.
Students also complete this Chrysanthemum fun craft as part of their sentence study.
At the beginning of the year, most of the conversation centers around concepts about print (what are letters, words, spaces, punctuation…).
You can grab the Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse lessons for FREE by going to THIS blog post.
You can find the lesson plans for Chrysanthemum by clicking:
If you scroll to the end of this blog post, you will find a free download for this name activity.
Here are a few of the other centers we introduce this week.
These are few of the Back To School Seesaw centers that students can complete on an iPad.
Each set of Seesaw centers are preloaded for you, so all you have to do is assign them. There are roughly 20 pages per theme, so this will keep students engaged over several days to a week.
Here are few more of the color centers from this week.
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You can download this free template by clicking HERE.
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Love Kevin Henkes! Thanks for the freebie! A question for you Deedee- When do you do explicit phonics instruction? I have your Guiding Readers Bundle and know that it is in that program. But as I am looking at your Peek at My Week plans I am wondering if you do the phonics during the Reading/Interactive writing block? Just trying to pack in all your wonderful programs into my schedule! I don’t want to leave any of it out!!
Such great materials! Thanks for sharing!