Riddle of the Day | BUNDLE

Description

Riddle of the Day for kindergarten and first grade students!

Riddle of the day is a fantastic activity that reinforces reading skills such as inferring and looking for text evidence… AND … it is FUN!

This pack contains:

• 20 Original Riddles of the Day with the answers
• PDF and Image files
• You can use the image files to embed in your interactive whiteboard
• Full color and black/white images are included
• Seesaw Preloaded Activity slides 
• Google Slides ready, PowerPoint Files

September Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• School Supplies
• School Subjects
• Lunch Items
• Colors

October Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• Fire safety
• Halloween-ish (spiders, bats, candy corn, then two Halloween things)
• Pumpkin facts
• Shapes (2D shapes)

November Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• Thanksgiving
• Fall Things
• Family members
• What season am I?
• Nocturnal animals

December Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• Hibernating Animals
• Cookie baking
• Gingerbread man characters
• Holiday symbols

January Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• Parts of a snowman
• Winter things
• Arctic Animals
• Winter Games
• January Celebrations (MLK, and 100th day)

February Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• Community Helpers
• Space
• February celebrations (Groundhog Day, Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, 100th Day)
• Our body (heart, lungs, muscles, brain, bones)

March Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• 5 senses
• Weather
• What plants need and plants
• Plant helpers

April Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• Helping the earth -Earth Day
• Farm
• Oviparous Animals (guess what is in the egg)
• Animal Habitats

May Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• Zoo Animals
• Insects
• Life Cycles
• Ocean Animals

June Riddle of the Day Themes: (SEESAW Preloaded Activity Links included)

• Sports
• Summer things
• At the beach
• Going camping

How to use this unit:

Many years ago, I incorporated the Riddle of the Day into my daily routine. This is what it looked like back then:

1. Each morning, when my students walked in, I would have a riddle written out and waiting for them on chart paper.
2. As my students trickled in, I read the riddle to them.
3. Students would then take a scrape of paper (small 2” x 2” paper from the recycle bin) and draw a picture for what they thought the answer was.
4. Students would fold up their answers and place them in a plastic bag, but you can use a cup.
5. After our pledge, I would read the riddle again and I would begin to tally mark the guesses.
6. We would then count the tally marks and write the numerals. You can have a quick discussion about more/less, how many more crayons than chalk… You can even graph your data.
7. Next, we would start to read the riddle again while digging into the clues.
8. As we read each line, we think If that was a good clue and if we should cross out any guesses.
9. Usually, we are left with a few possible answers. We look at the initial sounds to determine which was the correct one.
10. We also return to the poem and underline the words that helped us the most.
11. Over time, students will begin to pay attention to the text clues…plus it is fun!

TIP: You can also go back to this riddle and look for certain letters, words, rhyming words, 2 syllable words… the possibilities are endless. It would make a fun center activity too!

NOTE: If you were a member of the CLEVER SCHOOL TEACHER MEMBERSHIP Site, these files were included in your September 2019 to June 2020 LOOT! Do not purchase this file again as it is exactly the same.