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Eric Carle is one of my favorite children's authors so of course I love to cover as many books of his as I can in my classroom. This is the first week of my Eric Carle author study. (Be sure to check out the second week in my store!) I tend to do this is in the late spring but Eric Carle's birthday is in March as well as Very Hungry Caterpillar Day so that is the perfect time to do it as well. This unit includes 5 days worth of activities beginning with all about Eric Carle then a daily focus on

Everyone has their favorite Eric Carle books they want to share with their students; so this is the perfect way to mix and match the books that work best for you. This set includes everything for The Grouchy Ladybug that you would find in my author study unit week 1. It includes literacy, math, science, and art activities for students based on this particular book. ~“I feel grouchy when…” Writing Activity ~The Grouchy Ladybug Story Map ~“ug” Family Real vs. Nonsense Word Sort ~Ladybug Telling T

Everyone has their favorite Eric Carle books they want to share with their students; so this is the perfect way to mix and match the books that work best for you. This set includes everything for A House for Hermit Crab that you would find in my author study unit week 2. It includes literacy, math, science, and art activities for students based on this particular book. ~Story Map ~Have you ever felt scared? Writing prompt ~Story Sequencing ~Under the Sea Spin and Graph ~Crabby Characteristics ~

Everyone has their favorite Eric Carle books they want to share with their students; so this is the perfect way to mix and match the books that work best for you. This set includes everything for The Mixed Up Chameleon that you would find in my author study unit week 1. It includes literacy, math, science, and art activities for students based on this particular book. ~“I wish I could _________like a _________.” Writing Activity ~Story Sequencing Cards ~The Mixed Up Chameleon story map ~What d

Eric Carle is one of my favorite children's authors so of course I love to cover as many books of his as I can in my classroom. This includes both the first and second week of my Eric Carle author study. I tend to do this is in the late spring but Eric Carle's birthday is in March as well as Very Hungry Caterpillar Day so that is the perfect time to do it as well. This unit includes 10 days worth of activities beginning with all about Eric Carle then a daily focus on a different book. The books

These bright, fun, polka dot shapes posters are perfect for decorating your classroom walls! They are large enough for students to view from all parts of the room and include the following shapes: circle, square, rectangle, oval, triangle, diamond, star, hexagon, pentagon, octagon, trapezoid, heart, cylinder, cube, and sphere. They are 8 1/2 x 11 and can be printed on standard cardstock or paper. They also go great with the polka growing number line, polka dot alphabet posters, polka dot money w

Everyone has their favorite Eric Carle books they want to share with their students; so this is the perfect way to mix and match the books that work best for you. This set includes everything for Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? that you would find in my author study unit week 2. It includes literacy, math, science, and art activities for students based on this particular book. 1. Story map 2. My favorite thing about my Mom is… 3. My favorite thing about my Grandma is… 4. Does a kangaroo hav

Everyone has their favorite Eric Carle books they want to share with their students; so this is the perfect way to mix and match the books that work best for you. This set includes everything for 10 Little Rubber Ducks that you would find in my author study unit week 1. It includes literacy, math, science, and art activities for students based on this particular book. The activities included are: ~10 Little Rubber Ducks Mini-book ~10 Little Rubber Ducks Story Map ~Positional Word Practice ~Rubbe

Everyone has their favorite Eric Carle books they want to share with their students; so this is the perfect way to mix and match the books that work best for you. This set includes everything for The Very Busy Spider that you would find in my author study unit week 2. It includes literacy, math, science, and art activities for students based on this particular book. 1. Story Map 2.Writing Prompt: If you could make a spider web out of anything, what would it be? Why? 3.Spider Sort: Real vs. Nons

Laura Numeroff is another one of my favorite children's authors and she has written a series of stories that all use the phrase “If you give a ____________ a _____________“. These are some of my favorite to do with students when I need a repetitive text or we are learning about circle stories. I always love to start with "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and the book "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" is a great follow up. There are several activities for the book covering subject areas such as literac

Everyone has their favorite Eric Carle books they want to share with their students; so this is the perfect way to mix and match the books that work best for you. This set includes everything for Mister Seahorse that you would find in my author study unit week 2. It includes literacy, math, science, and art activities for students based on this particular book. 1. Story Map 2. Seahorse Sight Words 3. Blending In (beginning sound blends) 4. Seahorse Number Match (numeral, number words, and tally

I love the series "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a..."! These themed books are a great way to review story sequencing throughout the year while reading a familiar text. This unit includes all nine books that I have created activities for in this series. The books and their corresponding activities are: "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose!" 1. Story sequencing cards and ordinal number cards 2. Retelling Book 3. Ros“e” words 4. Swallowing Syllables 5. Valentine’s Sight Word Bingo

I love the series "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a..."! These themed books are a great way to review story sequencing throughout the year while reading a familiar text. This unit's activities are all based on a fall theme. They cover skills such as retelling, sequencing, letter identification and matching, writing, beginning sounds, patterning, classifying objects, measuring, estimating, and observing. The following activities are included: 1. Story sequencing Cards including ordinal numbe

Because I just can't get enough! Here is the second week of my Eric Carle author study. (Be sure to check out out the first week in my store!) I tend to do this is in the late spring but Eric Carle's birthday is in March as well as Very Hungry Caterpillar Day so that is the perfect time to do it as well. It includes a different book to focus on each day following the same criteria of literacy, math, science, and art activities included for each. The books I chose for this week are The Foolish To

Everyone has their favorite Eric Carle books they want to share with their students; so this is the perfect way to mix and match the books that work best for you. This set includes everything for The Foolish Tortoise that you would find in my author study unit week 2. It includes literacy, math, science, and art activities for students based on this particular book. ~Story Map ~“I wish I could be better at…” Writing prompt ~Tortoise Trail rhyming words ~Tortoise Totals ~Tortoise Shell Measureme

These bright, fun, chevron shapes posters are perfect for decorating your classroom! They are large enough for students to view from all parts of the room. It includes a picture of the shape as well as the word. The shapes included are: circle, square, rectangle, oval, triangle, diamond, star, hexagon, pentagon, octagon, trapezoid, heart, cylinder, cube, and sphere. They also go great with the chevron growing number line, chevron money wall décor, chevron colors wall décor, chevron alphabet wall

Laura Numeoff is one of my favorite children's authors. I love how her stories are predictable so students can join in the reading. Here I have provided five different Laura Numeroff books to use to study her style of writing and different animals at the same time. The books included are "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", "If You Give a Moose a Muffin", "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake", "If You Give a Pig a Pancake", and "If You Give a Dog a Donut". The following is a list of activities included for e

Apples are a wonderful, familiar, fall topic to cover in the elementary grade levels. This unit provides activities across all subject levels and varying abilities. Students will enjoy the hands on approach to investigating apples and the man that is famous for planting apple seeds. The following activities are included in this unit: 1. Activities for 10 Apples Up on Top by: Dr. Seuss a. How Many Apples Up on Top? Apple Counting Book b. Class Big Book-We Have 10 Apples Up on Top! c. Apple

These bright, fun, polka dot number posters are perfect for decorating your classroom! They are large enough for students to view from all parts of the room and include the numeral, number word, and ten's frame example. It features numbers 0-20. They also go great with the polka dot growing number line, polka dot alphabet wall décor, polka dot money wall décor, polka dot colors wall décor, polka dot punctuation wall décor, and polka dot word wall letters wall décor.

Laura Numeroff is another one of my favorite children's authors and she has written a series of stories that all use the phrase “If you give a ____________ a _____________“. These are some of my favorite to do with students when I need a repetitive text or we are learning about circle stories. I always love to start with "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and the book "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake" is a great addition. There are several activities for the book covering subject areas such as literacy,