Do you like Dragons? This and many other questions will be answered in our engaging unit. Students will create a "Big Book" by colouring the provided illustrations and using the provided text. Students complete a "My Dragons Word Book", in which students will fill in the provided pages with drawings and words. A "Don't Wake the Dragon" puzzle is provided for students to complete and colour. Our unit is ideal for teaching reading and writing as well as word recognition using a Dragon theme. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with activities, colouring book, word book and word cards to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Welcome to the world of dinosaurs! Here you will find work-jobs and activities to make your Dinosaur Learning Center more complete. The work-jobs included can be photocopied or duplicated directly onto construction paper or manila tag. Instructions are included for each and are easy to follow. Some of the topics included are: Meat Eaters, Plant Eaters, Two Legs, Four Legs, I am a Dinosaur, Dinosaur Country, Fossil Match, Dinosaur Bone Hunt, Dinosaur Songs, Mega Puzzles, and Activity Cards. The center book pages are for creative development. Each child can create a booklet of his or her dinosaur studies. This Animal Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, word search, and board game to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Red Rover's see-through tummy reveals what he eats. Students complete the story with their cut-out drawings of rainbow fruits and vegetables. Interactive chants, hands-on centered listening activities and family homework make up the bulk of our lesson plan. Also included are: an interactive storyboard story, colour activities and rebus chants. Stories and activities included are: Red Rover Eats a Rainbow, An Artist's Palette, Colour Trees and Leaves, Crayons in a Box, Butterfly Wings, Yummy Ice-Cream Cones, Rainbow Rhyme, Colour Chants, and Rainbow Sandpaper Prints. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with storyboard, hands-on activities, interactive chant, rebus chants, and art activity to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Mother Goose's tried and true nursery rhymes provide a springboard for this unit that is specifically designed for use during the critical first months of grade one, when children have limited reading and writing skills. Our highly structured unit focuses on building children's sight word vocabulary and introduces them to writing in complete (but simple) sentences as a class activity. The list of fun, familiar rhymes includes Humpty Dumpty, Star Light, Jack Be Nimble, Jack Sprat, Hickory Dickory Dock, Three Blind Mice, Hey Diddle Diddle, Little Jack Horner. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, rhyme game, unit test, and self evaluation to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our unit is a collection of hands-on activities, crafts, recipes, task cards, clip art and patterns, all designed for students to have fun while learning. Lead up to your students big night of trick-or-treating by making Monster Muffins, Paper Bag Puppets and having a Pumpkin Party. Included in our resource are: Little Melvis Cleans Up, Monster Birthday, Monster Cookies, Monster Babies, Halloween Patterns, Task Cards, Clip Art, Journal Word Cards, and Big Book. This Holidays lesson provides a teacher and student section with activities, recipes and colouring book to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream". Make a big book, take a survey, recite chants ... all about ice cream! While focusing on a favourite food, students will work co-operatively, reinforce skills and tantalize their taste buds. Patterns included are: Songs, The Ice Cream Man by Rachel Field, Bookmaking Pattern, Big Book — Do You Love Ice Cream?, Big Book — Ice Cream Cones are Yummy, Flannelboard — Carl and the 5 Scoop Ice Cream Cone, Flannelboard — Joey's Restaurant, Hands-on Activities, Rebus Chants, and More Ice Cream Ideas. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with big books, hands-on activities, flannelboard stories, rebus chant, rebus recipe, and survey charts to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Make Big Books for Christmas the easy way. Just colour and cut out the large bold illustrations. Cut out the text. Glue onto bristol. Add any finishing touches. Laminate and bind. It's easy and the kids will love the stories. Included in our resource are patterns to make 3 Big books: A Night Filled with Love, Under the Tree, and Make a Snowman. Enjoy more ideas with your big books with matching activities, art activities, picture cards, sentence cards, and sequencing activity. This Holidays lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our unit has been developed to reinforce the concept that "a family is who lives at your house" and to realize that all families are different, culturally and socially. Includes patterns to make a big book, hands-on activities, plus rebus stories about different families and what they do. Our resource, geared toward the theme of the family, includes centre book pages, visual discrimination, food for families, and favourite family recipes. This Social Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with language arts, art, and math activities, patterns, hands-on, and pocket chart activities, bookmaking, recipes, word cards, and rebus stories to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Find out the truth about Hickory Dickory Dock and enjoy our version of Hey Diddle Diddle with a twist! Instead of jumping, "The cow sang a song under the moon — There's no udder like you." We've re-written these two nursery rhyme classics for your students to enjoy in big book and little book formats. Follow-up hands-on activities reinforce sequencing, counting and telling time. Activities include: mixed up rhyme game, flannelboard — fun with prepositional phrases, "What Time Is It?" board game with instructions, and picture match for visual discrimination. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with big book, little book, hands-on activities, and board game to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Vern owns a restaurant and makes the most delicious vegetable soup in all of Canada. Our resource includes the story of "Vern's Vegetable Soup", patterns to make a flannelboard story, rebus chants — "Soup" and "In the Pot", and numeral recognition and counting skills. Students will reinforce counting skills of 1 to 10, will reinforce colour recognition skills, will recognize vegetables as nutritional, and will listen to a story. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, flannelboard, rebus chants, and culminating activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
The art of quillwork is told through a big book and flannel board story in our teacher resource for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students. The Circle of Life, traditions, and the value of Elders as a wonderful learning resource is emphasized. Contents include "The Art of Quilting" information cards, Jacket Pattern, Moccasin Pattern, Mittens with Quills song, big book patterns for Mittens with Quills, and storytelling of "Nosisimis and the Porcupine". This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, information cards, patterns, songs, big book, flannelboard, and word search to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Plant Power introduces students to the herbs, vegetables, fruits and other plants we eat. Pocket charts, rebus chants, bookmaking patterns, games and classifying activities are all included in this highly nutritious resource. Our resource combines language arts skills with earth science. Contents include: storybooks, websites, resources, bookmaking patterns for "I Am a Flowering Plant with Four Parts" and "My Name is Herb and I Like to Plant and Grow Herbs", fruit and vegetable pictures, pocket chart activity and song, pocket chart classifications, sentence strips, task cards for independent learning, farmer's market board game, rebus chants and activities, and student worksheets. This Earth Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with bookmaking, clip art, task cards, board game, rebus chants, activities, and word search to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Little Boy Blue is another nursery rhyme with a twist. Based on the original nursery rhyme, little boy blue is responsible of looking after the sheep and cow; however, instead of watching over the animals, he is fast asleep under a haystack. Students will construct their own little, and big book of the story. The pages can be cut in one of two ways: on yellow Bristol board, or any colour Bristol board. Colour the provided illustrations and cut out the text. Students have the option of assembling the big book using a normal template, or using the provided haystack template. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, little book and big book construction to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Loaded with practical activities to help students learn about communities, Canadian Cities combines geography, math, tourism, and language arts into a comprehensive social studies program. Students will learn the capital cities of Canada and how to locate them on a map. They will locate cities within the province of Saskatchewan on a map and discover elements unique to their city. Independent learning activities, fun tourism reports, task cards, a big book and Canada's capital city game are all included. Students will also discover elements unique to a city, participate in group work, and read a dramatic role. This Social Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reader's theatre, game, big book pattern, task cards, word search, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Strawberry is a loveable, plush, gray mouse who knows how to get young authors involved in creative thinking and the reading and writing process. Strawberry lives at school during the day and travels home with a boy or girl in the evening. Strawberry comes with accessories, which include his pyjamas, toothbrush, a change of clothes, a blanket, a good storybook and a journal, all stored in a backpack. The student records events that happen at home with Strawberry, in Strawberry's journal. The student may dictate to a parent, write the story, or illustrate. The process involves creative writing and reading, since Strawberry loves a good story. Our unit includes big book patterns and a journal. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with big books, journal, and checklist to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Welcome to the Big Top! Our versatile resource includes a big book, changes, hands-on activities, and many visuals of the circus. Art activities include: Big Top Circus Train and What's Under the Big Top. We've also included a Big Top Poem, My Circus Word Book, the rebus story "A Life in the Circus," illustrations and certificates. Students will explore the early stages of language arts skills using a circus theme. A Big Top chart gives suggested classroom activities that stimulate creative thinking. The circus is an exciting event for all children. Under the Big Top can help you make your theme study more visually attractive. The Big Top Poem uses early math concepts, such as asking the students to put two elephants in the second ring. Students create several Big Books featuring illustrations and text. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with illustrations, poems, big book, hands-on activities, word search, and card game to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
An informative lesson on the Saskatchewan Prairies. Featuring a dictionary, hands-on sequencing, little book patterns, creative writing, making the big book, read the story, alphabetical elevators, hands-on patterns, and journal word cards. Students will recognize towns in rural Saskatchewan, develop mapping skills, develop vocabulary, develop numeracy skills, develop creative writing skills, and participate in a variety of independent learning activities. Additional reading includes "A Prairie Alphabet" by J. Cugnet-Ballatyne, with journal word cards, class dictionary, and word search activities; as well as "The Auction" by J. Andrews, with task cards and more stories activities. This Canada lesson provides a teacher and student section with activities, big book assembly, sequencing activity, word cards, word search, and task cards to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Great Big Wonderful Me focuses on the body, family, birthdays, nutrition and safety using hands-on and rebus activities. Our resource package is based on the "all about me" theme. Teachers will find hands-on activities for their learning centres, rebus activities to bring out creativity in their classroom, a class feeling chart, and more. Activities include "This Is Me!", where students build a model of themselves using the provided face and hair components; "My Family Tree", where students will construct their own personal family tree; and "Baking a Cake", where students will place the cards in their correct sequence. This Social Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities and matching games to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Storytelling props for your classroom for years to come! Add some fun to story time with our adaptations of popular nursery stories and songs. You will find pictures and text for three stories and two songs. The provided pictures are easy to colour and assemble for storytelling. As you tell the story, place the pictures — for all to see — on a flannel or magnet board. Then, let the children retell the story using the pictures. Stories include: The Magic Perogy Pot, The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Man, The Farmer In The Dell, and Eensie Weensie Spider. Also included are "How to Assemble" and "Telling the Stories". This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with big book, illustrations, and text to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Rebus stories give emerging readers the encouragement and success that they need. The picture provides a word clue, while establishing left to right tracking, and reinforcing the idea that words make sentences that make stories. The stories in this unit tell about the senses, things that are big and small, and the changing of the seasons. The creative activities encourage the students to express their ideas through art. Our unit includes longer chants for the slightly more advanced emerging reader, such as "I Love The Fall", "I Love My School", "The Story Of A Leaf", "I Love Winter", "I Love Spring", and "Summer Colours". This Chants & Classifications lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, rebus stories, and creative thinking activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our Sunsational Spring resource is perfect for teaching about Springtime and all things that go with this season of re-birth. Hands-on activities and a rebus story with activities for creative thinking make up the majority of our lesson plan. Contents include: Scarecrows visual discrimination, Scarecrows sets to numerals, I am a Tulip color recognition, Rainbow Colours colour recognition, Mushrooms color recognition, Boots and Umbrellas word recognition, Hens and Chicks letter recognition, I am a Caterpillar word recognition, Mushrooms Big to Small ordering, and Creative Rebus Stories. This Holidays lesson provides a teacher and student section with hands-on activities, sequence, visual discrimination, color recognition, word recognition, letter recognition, ordering, and rebus stories to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our Fairy Tales unit combines traditional fairy tales with new and exciting activities that will enchant young students. This work file is based on traditional Fairy Tales. The activities inside; however, are new and exciting. You will find: Twenty Task Cards, most being open-ended. Each has delightful illustration that lends to the activity; A Student Record Sheet for his or her learning center workbook; Four Fully Illustrated Stories; A Fairy Tale Trivia Game, where students can test their trivia skills by answering the question cards; Reinforcement Activities for ordinals, alphabetical sequence, classification, dialogue, math, and visual discrimination; and Blank Activity and Task Cards. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities and board game to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
SQUEEK! Our supplement to your mouse theme or a theme of traditional folk tales and fairy tales is sure to be a hit. Includes big book pattern, sequencing patterns for City Mouse And Country Mouse, puppet patterns, and sequencing cards for The Mouse And The Lion. Activities include: "Visuals" contains clip art and organizational materials; "All Kinds of Mice" explores the different kinds of mice and where they live; "Traditional Mouse Tales" introduces old folktales about mice; and "Mouse Art" gives ideas for art activities. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, board game, art and colouring pages to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Students jump into the world of penguins with our comprehensive resource that combines science with language arts. Contents include Penguin Clip Art, Name Tags, Creative Writing Template, Family Homework, Class Bulletin Board, Activity Sheets, Penguin Facts, Penguin Stories, Penguin Rebus Chants, Penguin Learning Centre Cards and Record Sheet, Measurement - The Emperor Penguin, Journal Word Cards, and Storybooks. Cut and paste the provided clip art to dress up your newsletters, to make hands-on activities, or to create a penguin display. Give your class a penguin look with penguin locker name tags. This Animal Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities and rebus chants to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our Owls unit will provide resources to supplement a theme study of owls. Our unit is divided into 10 areas of study: Characteristics of an Owl, Habitat, Owls Love the Night Life, Owl Babies, Food for Owls, Night Friends and Owl Enemies, Different Kinds of Owls, Endangered Owls, Owls in Literature, and Owls in Visual Art. Resources included are: Owl Information, 19 Task Cards for Independent Learning, Student Record Sheet, Journal Word Cards, Owl Quiz, and Creative Writing Page. Students will increase "owl" knowledge, increase awareness of our environment, work independently (individually, in pairs, or in groups), follow instructions, and participate in a variety of activities that reinforce learning skills and objectives. This Animal Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, word cards, task cards, word search, and quiz to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Fun For Fall is designed for the beginner kindergartener. The hands-on activities are simple and are meant to deal with numbers 1-5. There are patterns and pictures for at least 10 hands-on activities. Our resource also includes an illustration for Class Discussion, 3 bookmaking patterns, and 6 certificates or awards. The "What Time Is It?" activity visually organizes your school day. Contents include hands-on instructions, patterns and pictures, discussions for class, and bookmaking. Our unit is sure to welcome the students to school. This Holidays lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, hands-on activities, big book, and awards to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
This story in our resource was written in Lac La Ronge, SK in 1991 at a conference theme-building workshop. The co-authors have included Cree words in their dialect. The story is about a boy who looks for his fish. He sees all kinds of fish before he finds his pet. The story introduces Cree vocabulary of kinship words. The repetitive text provides encouragement and success for emerging readers. Themes involve families and pets. Included resources in our unit are patterns to make a big book, and patterns to make a flannelboard story. Students will learn kinship terms in another language or their mother language, will listen to a story, and will retell the story using pictures. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, big book, and flannelboard to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
SQUEEK! Our supplement to your mouse theme or a theme of traditional folk tales and fairy tales is sure to be a hit. Includes big book pattern, sequencing patterns for City Mouse And Country Mouse, puppet patterns, and sequencing cards for The Mouse And The Lion. Activities include: "Visuals" contains clip art and organizational materials; "All Kinds of Mice" explores the different kinds of mice and where they live; "Traditional Mouse Tales" introduces old folktales about mice; and "Mouse Art" gives ideas for art activities. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, board game, art and colouring pages to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our resource contains patterns and pictures to make hands-on activities for your learning centre and bookmaking patterns for emerging authors. Use the patterns as directed, or use them for your own ideas in the classroom. Enlarge to make bulletin board and reduce to use as clip art. Always save your originals for your own ideas and to file as a resource. Our theme resource for Bears includes hands-on, bookmaking patterns, Bear activity cards and locker name tags, and songs. Other activities include: word recognition, colour recognition, counting and visual discrimination, shape recognition, sequence, ordering of size, and a mega puzzle. This Animal Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with hands-on activities, patterns, big books, and songs to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
What A Mess is a funny story about a girl who doesn't like to keep her room clean. Read the story as a supplement to your environmental theme study. Use the story as a kick start to a classroom environmental awareness project. Students will become responsible towards keeping their immediate environment tidy and clean. Students will realize that respect and responsibility towards a good environment can begin at home with their own belongings, and in the classroom that is shared with others. Students will listen to a story, participate in an oral discussion, and participate as Classroom Helpers. This Chants & Classifications lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, hands-on activities, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Add some fun to your favorite big book story. In There Was An Old Lady, students will learn rhythm and rhyme in oral activities, while practising reading and learning to recognize point of view in the story. Contents include Big Book, Little Book, flannelboard and storytelling instructions, flannelboard patterns, storytelling prop, and activities. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, big book, little book, flannelboard, and activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Children enjoy reading and handling these "Big Book" flip books! They are fun and easy to make! Patterns and text to make 3 flip-style classroom Big Books are included for the following stories: Bingo — an old favourite, where letters are eliminated, lending to audience participation; Ten in a Bed — watch the bears fall out of bed!; and A Hungry Bear — count what he eats during the days of the week. Reading comprehension and organization are highlighted in this unit. Creativity and art are an essential part of these activities. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Children love to read rebus stories. The illustrations give them positive identification of words in the story. Here's 6 all new rebus stories. Use them as independent or group learning activities. Photocopy and give each student a book to read and create in. Colour the rebus illustrations and the cover, laminate and bind. Insert a paper clip on each page. Independently, or as a group, go through the story. Each student can take turns reading the book, adding his or her own illustrations. The 6 rebus stories included are: Ingrid and her 100 Hats, You Can Make Magic!, A Handy Handprint, The Little Red Hen, The Storybook Grandma, and My Goodnight Book. This Chants & Classifications lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, rebus stories, and creative thinking activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Rebus stories give emerging readers the encouragement and success that they need. The picture provides a word clue, while establishing left to right tracking, and reinforcing the idea that words make sentences that make stories. The stories in this unit tell about the senses, things that are big and small, and the changing of the seasons. The creative activities encourage the students to express their ideas through art. Our unit includes longer chants for the slightly more advanced emerging reader, such as "I Love The Fall", "I Love My School", "The Story Of A Leaf", "I Love Winter", "I Love Spring", and "Summer Colours". This Chants & Classifications lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, rebus stories, and creative thinking activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Do you like Dragons? This and many other questions will be answered in our engaging unit. Students will create a "Big Book" by colouring the provided illustrations and using the provided text. Students complete a "My Dragons Word Book", in which students will fill in the provided pages with drawings and words. A "Don't Wake the Dragon" puzzle is provided for students to complete and colour. Our unit is ideal for teaching reading and writing as well as word recognition using a Dragon theme. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with activities, colouring book, word book and word cards to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Welcome to the Big Top! Our versatile resource includes a big book, changes, hands-on activities, and many visuals of the circus. Art activities include: Big Top Circus Train and What's Under the Big Top. We've also included a Big Top Poem, My Circus Word Book, the rebus story "A Life in the Circus," illustrations and certificates. Students will explore the early stages of language arts skills using a circus theme. A Big Top chart gives suggested classroom activities that stimulate creative thinking. The circus is an exciting event for all children. Under the Big Top can help you make your theme study more visually attractive. The Big Top Poem uses early math concepts, such as asking the students to put two elephants in the second ring. Students create several Big Books featuring illustrations and text. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with illustrations, poems, big book, hands-on activities, word search, and card game to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
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