Connect information and events in texts to life experiences.
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Content Standard # 3.01(1)(a)(v) - Level # K
Connect information and events in texts to life experiences.
Standard in Kid Friendly Language
Students will listen to stories and tell how these stories are alike or different from their lives and or other people they know.
Standard Unwrapped
KNOW
Kindergarten students will be exposed to a variety of reading materials and connect the information and events to life experiences (text to text, text to self, text to world).
ABLE TO DO
Listen to and actively participate in discussions about literature and how it connects to their life experiences.
Instructional Strategies
Modeling: as teacher reads big books to class, teacher and students will have discussions about how text relates to life experiences.
Reading Aloud to Children: teacher reads to students.
Shared Reading: teachers read with students.
Guided Reading: students work in group to read a book with the teacher as a guide.
Independent Reading: students read alone or with peer.
Listening Center: students will listen to books on tapes.
Homework and Practice: Throughout the year the teacher will send home leveled readers to practice reading at home with family.
Assessment Strategies
Bear Assessment-Listening Comprehension
Resources
Art Activities to go with Eric Carle Books
Jan Brett Teacher Resource File
25 Ways to Motivate Young Readers: Motivate Readers
Leveled Readers and Trade Books Run Run, Paint Ponies, Things I Like, Meanies, Building Blocks I Can Do It, Painting a Rainbow, I Am Special, My Bus, The Party, The Carrot Seed, Growing Vegetable Soup, Ice Cream, Hot Soup, A Monster Sandwich, Yuck Soup, Hairy Bear, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Five Little Monkeys, Silly Sally, Cinderella Dressed in Yellow, Mr. Grump, Itchy Witchy, The Doorbell Rang, Uncle Buncle's House, When I was a Baby, I Love My Family, Sing a Song, Baby Gets Dressed, Three Little Kittens, Little Puppy, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Jigaree, To Town, On The Go, Sheep in a Jeep, Sheep in a Ship, Animal Clues, Good Night Owl, Let's Have a Swim, Snap!, Me Too!, Come and See, Huggles Goes Away, Our Tree House, Mr. Noisy Builds a House, City Mouse Country Mouse, Three Little Pigs, Five Little Sharks, Commotion in the Ocean, Looking for Crabs, In the Sea, Fantastic Fish, Mrs. Wishy Washy, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Flies for Dinner, The Farm Concert, One Funny Day
Projects and Activities
Literature and Activities:
Getting To Know You Theme
Chrysanthemum Name Bingo Game and Activity
All About Me Theme: All About Me Activities
Gingerbread Man by Karen Lee Schmidt:
class will make gingerbread man and teacher will hide him somewhere in the building and students will search for him, while meeting the school staff.
Gingerbread Baby by Jan Bret
Lots of Gingerbread Man Activities
Ginger Man Activities site: gingerbread man
The Kissing Hand Activities that go along with the book: The Kissing Hand
Doctor Seuss:
Activities for Cat In the Hat:
Transportation
The Signs: take a walk around the building and look for various "signs".
Sheep in a Jeepby Nancy Shaw, Margot Apple (Illustrator)
Car Activities: cars
Dental Health
Keep tooth decay away! referenced site
By - Amy Subject - Science, Other Grade Level - Kindergarten Talk to the children about what they think will happen to their teeth if they do not brush them at night and in the morning. Read the book Bearinstein Bears Visit the Dentist. Talk about sister bears fears and brother bears visit. Did they brush well? Why do they think they got the good results they did? How should you brush your teeth? What is the proper way? Have enough hard boiled eggs so that each child can have one. Fill a cup with a dark soda. Tell the children we are going to pretend that the egg is their tooth. Ask them to gently put the egg into the dark soda. Tell them the soda represents candy, soda, etc. Things that are bad for their teeth. You can also brainstorm this between good things and bad. Leave the eggs in the soda overnight. The next day, have the children see what happened to the eggs. (They will turn brown) Ask them why they think this happened. Have the children take a toothbrush and toothpaste and gently brush their "tooth" clean. You can easily save toothbrushes year to year. I have gone to the dollar store and gotten 20 brushes for 10 dollars and save them each year. They are amazed at how the egg looks when they come back the next day and realize that good brushing is a priority.
Alphabet Letters
Chicka Chicka Boom Boomby John Archambault:
explore and taste a real coconut, create a coconut tree by tracing arm and hand on paper then stamp alphabet letters on the tree and ground and then glue on brown pompoms for coconuts.
Family Theme
Dear Juno by Soyung Pak: write a letter to family and friends.
Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins,: divide and share cookies.
Around the Table Theme
Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Play Rhyme by Nadine Bernard Westcott (Illustrator): make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Stone Soup and Growing Vegetable Soup: each child will bring a vegetable and the class will make soup.
If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illustrator): make pancakes. Pancake Activities
Runaway Tortilla by Eric A. Kimmel, Randy Cecil (Illustrator): make tortillas.
Animal Families and Farm Theme
Moo Moo, Brown Cow by Jakki Wood, Rog Bonner (Illustrator): visit the farm and make butter in baby food jars.
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
by Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin (Illustrator)
Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin (Illustrator)
Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure by Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin (Illustrator)
Holidays
Saint Patrick's Day
Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato: An Irish Folktale by Tomie de Paola, Tomie de Paola (Illustrator): make mash potatoes.
Saint Patrick's Day Activities
Materials: one brown paper bag per child scissors paper scraps glue glitter/decorating materials white construction paper writing paper "Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato" by Tommie DePaola
Art Activity for Jamie O'Rourke By - Jennifer Reference to Activity Primary Subject - Language Arts Have each child, using scissors, cut out the shape of a potato. Then have them crinkle the paper, and carefully tear the edge of the potato so it looks "rough around the edges." Have them smooth out the potato, and glue it down on the white paper.
Using scraps and other decorating materials, have your children decorate his or her potato making it into a person. (Encourage them to be creative, and make things such as pirates, doctors, football players, etc...) Once it is completed, I always add a writing activity with it. "This is no ordinary potato. It is a...."
Thanksgiving:
Activities: go to the pumpkin patch, have potluck lunch and students bring their favorite thanksgiving foods.
'T'was the Night before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator)
Thanksgiving Is... by Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator)
Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting, Diane deGroat (Illustrator)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson, Judith B. Schachner (Illustrator)
Christmas Traditions Students will rotate through centers: sing carols, make cookies, make Christmas stocking and ornaments.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss (Illustrator)
Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson, Judith Gwyn Brown (Illustrator)
Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson, Jane Chapman (Illustrator)
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg,: students make a necklace with a bell.
Night Tree by Eve Bunting, Ted Rand (Illustrator): Make popcorn chains for trees outside.
Animal Stories
The Mitten by Jan Brett: make a large mitten and each character from the story. Place the animals in the mitten. The Mitten Lesson Plan
The Hat by Jan Brett
Under the Sea
Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae, David Wojtowycz (Illustrator): Students will make ocean waves using a small jar. They will add blue colored water and either baby oil or cooking oil. They can then add small ocean creature.
Edible aquariums
Pour blue Jello® into clear plastic cups, refrigerate. Give each child an aquarium, along with gummy ocean animals(sharks, fish, etc;). Let each child put their gummy friends into the blue ocean with a spoon and eat. Submitted by: Kristal Petersen, a preschool teacher.
Bubble Fish
Cut out large angelfish shapes from white paper. In small containers add bubble solution with a small bit of food coloring, red, yellow, green, and blue. Have the children blow these colored bubbles onto the fish. Makes beautiful tropical fish.
Starfish
Using tagboard, cut out starfish shapes. Then let the children glue Cheerios® on to simulate the receptacles.
Starfish biscuits
Using a star cookie cutter, let each child cut out a star from refrigerated biscuit dough, bake. Then when only a few minutes are left on baking, add cheese strips onto each star limb.
© Kristal Petersen
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Jan Peck, Valeria Petrone (Illustrator)
A House for a Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle,
Swimmy by Leo Lionni, Art activity for "Swimmy"
There Was and Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell: [teachingheart.net/oldladyshell.html activities]
Bugs Surprise Theme
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Eric Carle (Illustrator): students will make butterflies. How to make a butterfly
Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons
Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert
Charlie the Caterpillar by Dom Deluise, Christopher Santoro (Illustrator)
Butterfly House by Eve Bunting, Greg Shed (Illustrator)
100's Day
Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten by Joseph Slate, Ashley Wolff (Illustrator)
100 Day writing and other Activities
End of the Year
