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!