Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Eric Carle Week

A few weeks ago, we had a mini Eric Carle unit in our Kindergarten classrooms.  Our science focus was objects in the sky:  clouds, the sun and stars, the moon.  

The Grouchy Ladybug




We put words that begin with /g/ on one side and end with /g/ on the other.  









Draw Me A Star





We had a mini lesson about drawing a star using dry erase boards.


Then we cut triangles out of yellow and orange paper.  We counted each color and found the total!








Papa, Please Get the Moon For Me





We watched the video of the story.




Then we practiced making stars, and had a great following directions lesson!













Little Cloud
and
It Looked Like Spilt Milk










The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We watched Eric Carle read the book (here) and later in the week we watched the animated version.




How Eric Carle made The Very Hungry Caterpillar




Then we created The Very Hungry Student book from a template found at Teaching Heart.








Enjoy!

4 comments:

  1. Cute blog! I'm your newest follower! I recently posted about some Eric Carle activities that my class worked on. I'd love for you to visit my blog and check it out. =)
    Bobbie

    http://thedailycupcake-akindergartenblog.blogspot.com/

    ReplyDelete
  2. I love Eric Carle! I just never thought about doing a Science Unit using his books. Thank you so much for your idea. I am definitely going to use it when I get my own classroom in August.:)

    kind regards,
    Trish @ http://miss-hoppy.blogspot.com/

    ReplyDelete
  3. Thanks for the great feedback!
    I'm coming over to check out your blogs!
    Margaret

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks for stopping by Margaret! Can't wait to keep coming back to your blog and checking out new ideas.

      kind regards,
      Trish @ http://miss-hoppy.blogspot.com/

      Delete