K-3 Book Reviews, Puppets, Colouring, Clip Art
If you love trees, you’ll love this book. Title: Have You Seen Trees? Author: Joanne Oppenheim Illustrators: Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng Publishing: Scholastic Trade, 1995 Ages: 3 and up Theme: Trees, Seasons Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Opening Lines: “Have you seen trees? High trees, wide trees, reaching-to-the-sky trees. Did you ever hide behind a wide high tree?” Brief Synopsis: This beautifully illustrated … Read more
Inside: Animals Hearts and Valentine Poetry. Hello! Today I’m sharing a couple of our Valentine highlights from the week. Animal Hearts Do you remember making animal hearts when you were a kid? It’s one of my favourite memories of Valentines Day, that and making the little box or envelope that we’d collect our cards in 🙂 On Friday we got … Read more
Last week I wrote about the funniest book ever! That was an Elephant and Piggie book by Mo Willems. We’ve read a whole bunch of them now, including all the Pigeon books. Last week the kids wrote their own 5-page stories in the style of Mo Willems. I told them they could use Piggie and Gerald as their characters or … Read more
Inside: 15 beautiful Christmas art works by kids. I was wandering through our school today admiring all the beautiful Christmas art. I think we have some very talented teachers and students. Hope you enjoy these and that you’re inspired to try one or two with your own students! This gorgeous winter scene was created using a variety of techniques. The … Read more
Inside: Christmas activities in our Grade 1 classroom. Last night our school had a Christmas Dance instead of a concert. I have to say I was happily surprised at how much fun it was! One of our Kindergarten teachers was the DJ (an amazing one I might add) and he had the coolest lighting system ~ a very disco feel. … Read more
Inside: A free Christmas writing template and links to Christmas book freebies. Hello! Two years ago I made a couple of little Christmas books that I read to my class over the days leading up to Christmas break. Both these books are patterned after Eric Carle’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Click here for Santa Claus, Santa Claus book link. Click … Read more
Inside: Free Halloween poem and Halloween art. Ghost and Goblins is our poem of the week. It’s the perfect poem for K-1 because it’s short, repetitive, and is sung to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb. There are 3 different versions, two of which are black and white, and of course the colour one you see below. The … Read more
Inside: A free scarecrow poem and art activity. Our poem this week is about a silly old scarecrow. I’m sharing the version you see below and another one with some of the words missing. DOWNLOAD: THE SCARECROW POEM We also painted some fabulous scarecrows today! This lesson is from Deep Space Sparkle. We did this lesson in two parts. In … Read more
We just finished reading this beautiful novel. This was just the most beautiful story about a toy (thinking) rabbit, who learns to open his heart and feel love. After we finished it we had a great discussion about the story and its meaning. Then the kids painted their favourite scene and wrote about it.