This month's centres have an author focus on Eric Carle, of course so many of his books fit perfectly with springtime and the units we study in Science.
Puppet Centre
Students were making caterpillars, which also fits with building things as students need to make this kind of a puppet (accordion style)
Listening Centre
Students sequenced the story "Mixed up Chameleon" after watching it on the Smartboard. They LOVE this story, such a good one.
Thematic Book
Students wrote their own version of the very hungry caterpillar story.
Journal
Students did some writing about spring time. I always give them a picture to glue on otherwise they spend the entire centre drawing pictures and colouring instead of writing!
Guided Reading
After reading and discussing with the guided reading group, they did a response in their booklet.
Working with words
I found this ridiculously cute word family craft on Teachers Pay Teachers from Susan Moran- TGIF here. Makes for easy differentiation just change the word family or the number of words they need to write!
Writing
One of my amazing partner teachers gave me this cool activity to go with the mixed up chameleon. The kids pick which creature they would be if they were the chameleon and then glue on the body parts and write about it. So cute!!
Last centre is just sight word BINGO nothing too exciting there.
Also, we did a little craft to do some retelling with the mixed up chameleon. The kids made coloured the chameleon and cut out the centre of his body.. I will laminate and put on popsicle sticks. They created the background with all the different places the chameleon goes for the retelling.
Mrs. Dunn
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