Fairy Tale Literature Unit

We just finished our Fairy Tale Literature Unit. We concentrated on two fairy tales: The Fisherman and His Wife and The Twelve Dancing Princesses.

Art: 

     Castle: We did a castle directed draw. Then the kids decorated their castles.

     Worn out shoes: The kids decorated a shoe pattern to show what the                princesses and princes shoes looked after dancing all night.

Math:
     Fish Patterns: The students made three different patterns using fish stickers.

     Shoe Patterns: The kids made three different color patterns on the                    shoe outlines.

Language Arts: The students wrote a summary (using first, next, last format) of the story as a group and then they each drew their own pictures to go with the summary.

Science: We drew a magical fish and labeled the eye, mouth, fin, tail, gills, and scales on the fish.

We had a lot of fun learning about fairy tales. 

Literature Study: Little Owl's Night

We just completed our second literature study. We read the book Little Owl's Night by Divya Srinivasan. I created some activities for the students to do that correlated to the book and the standards that I teach.  After we read the book, we did the following activities: 

Art:
We made Little Owl out of construction paper.

Science:
Since the book takes place at night, we talked about the night sky and stars. We made this big dipper project. First, the students used water colors to paint the sky on a sheet of white paper. Next, I drew dots to show where the kids should place their star stickers. Then, the kids placed their star stickers on the dots I drew. Finally, the kids connected the dots with a pencil.

We also talked about parts of an owl and made this owl craft. After we made the owl craft, we cut apart a strip of words and glued them onto our owls.

 Here is the pattern:

We also made a list of all the animals in the story and classified them as nocturnal or diurnal.

We made a chart about owls.

Reading:
We reread Little Owl's Night in small groups. This student is using one of our homemade pointers. 

Language Arts:
We made a list of all of the animals in the story and put them in ABC order.

Math:

We counted the animals on each page of the book and made a tally chart.

 We used the tally chart to make a bar graph.

Cooking:

We made owl cookies for our cooking lesson.

Music and Poetry:

We learned the song Great Big Stars and learned the ASL signs to the song. 

Great big stars, way up a yonder.

Great big stars, way up a yonder.

Great big stars, way up a yonder.

All around the world gonna shine, shine.

All around the world gonna shine, shine.

In the picture below, the kids are signing "big".

Here the students are signing "stars".

Here the students are signing "up".

The students are signing "all".

The students are signing "around".

The students are signing "world".

The students are signing "shine".

The students had so much fun during our literature study of Little Owl's Night!

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Unit

I have been working on incorporating more literature into my curriculum this year as part of my school's new LAMP (literature, art, music, and poetry) initiative. This month we have been studying Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? The kids and I have had a lot of fun doing activities that correlate to the standards.

We made these brown bears using a fork, wiggle eyes, black markers and pink adhesive foam.

The students made AB patterns using fingerprint animals. This pattern is purple cat, green frog, purple cat, green frog.

This pattern is goldfish, green frog, goldfish, green frog. The pattern below it is yellow duck, green frog, yellow duck, green frog.

We learned about frogs and did this frog research report.

This student is sequencing the animals from Brown Bear according to where they were in the book.

These students are retelling the Brown Bear story with our flannel board set.

This is a pocket chart story that the kids can manipulate on their own.

The students made patterns with goldfish and teddy grams.

We made brown bear treats for cooking on Friday.