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Sky Color by Peter H Reynolds was our daily read-aloud picture book today. It inspired us to paint, recall details from the book, and get creative! I picked this book because we read The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds yesterday and learned about the water cycle, clouds, and weather last week. These are the Sky Color inspired activities we …
The wordless picture book Sector 7 by David Wiesner has been one of my favorite resources for teaching sentence structure, transitional phrases, commas, and descriptive writing in the classroom. I have recently used it to teach the reading skill of sequence of events and cause and effect. Here are our favorite Sector 7 activities. What is the …
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Reading the book The Creature of Habit by Jennifer E. Smith and illustrated by Leo Espinosa, was a fun read-aloud for my children. We bought this book last year, and we have been reading it regularly ever since. Somehow we have just now done activities with this book. So here are our five favorite things to do …
These letter cards are used daily for the first few minutes of reading instruction in January and February. Then, I print, laminate, and cut each card out for prep. I have used similar cards since August so that children will understand the activity by January. This month, we added blends to build CVC words and …
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We LOVE the book Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion by Stephen W. Martin and Dan Tavis! My kids started asking me to read this to them nightly, and one night they came up with a plan to make an entire day devoted to color explosions like in the book. It was a great day for the …
We have been working on learning CVC and word families this week. I tried coming up with some simple, fun games my kids can play independently to practice and feel more confident. I'll be expanding the list of resources we have been using, but here are the word family activities and games we loved this …
We continued our study of the five senses today using the book What If You Had Animal Eyes!? By Sandra Markle and illustrated by Howard McWilliam. Today’s read-aloud book inspired a lot of messy activities. We moved outside for most of them to allow the creativity to fly! See my TPT homepage for more resources …
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Today's book is called What If You Had Animal Ears!? Written by Sandra Markle and illustrated by Howard McWilliam. I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but my kids were hooked on the image of a girl with koala ears and knew it would be a good book choice for today. We …
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I forgot about St. Patrick’s Day; let me reword that. I prepared, planned, and anticipated the holiday until the day it arrived and were busy with all the things life is filled with these days. So we had pipe cleaners, fruit loops, and marshmallows to use and no ideas to think of. Until this morning, …
My kids and I love the book Have You Ever Seen a Flower? This book lends itself to multiple learning opportunities for my preschooler and toddler to learn through play. Initially, I bought it because of the neon illustrations that drew me in, and I was obsessed with how the illustrator created movement and action …
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