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Big Books & Spiders

Over the next week, I will be uploading 1 freebie
 
 a day for the 1st grade HM series Big Books.
 
Today's freebie is for Minerva Louise.
 
I love this silly chicken.
 
She is just a first grader's speed and I like
 
her cheerful outlook. 
 
If you don't use the HM series, this little gem of a
 
book is probably in your school library.
 
 
Teaching nouns with this book is a delight,
 
as is building the comprehension skills of
 
recall and clarifying.
 
You see, the chicken wanders
 
 into a school and thinks she is on a new kind of
 
farm. The opportunities to clarify are plentiful.
 
Is this a barn???
 
No, it is a classroom
 
Is this the farmer hanging his laundry?
 
Ummm no, silly chicken, that is the custodian
 
hanging the flag on the flagpole!
 
Is that a nest and an egg?
 
Wrong again, little hen... It is a baseball and mitt.
 
After we giggle at the silly chicken,  we practice  
 
our recall skills using this little baby.
 


 
On the reread day we use this mind map
 
to practice our clarifying skills.
 


Both are displayed here on my wall in the hall.
 
 


download the freebie
 
 
 
This is a perfect book for point of view.
 
The spider is trying to convince the family he is a
 
perfect pet. The spider does all the things that
 
freak us humans out, but he is really trying to
 
 show us what a great dancer he is, by running
 
across the floor, or how clean he is by hanging out
 
in the bathtub.
 
There's a sp- sp- spider in the bathtub!
 
Too cute!
 
 I hit blends hard in October. I love to start with
 
"SP"
 
I use spiders of course!

Get Spiders resource here: SPIDERS

 
We make these little babies.
 
 
It is 1 large circle (body) and 1 medium circle (head)
 
8 Strips for the legs
 
Red heart to give the look of a black widow.
 
EYES:
 
Now when I only had 20 kids, I would give them
 
each 8 google eyes.
 
I was also a fully paid teacher back then, so I was rich.
 
But due to furloughs and sheer numbers (29 kids),
 
I opted to just have them draw 8 eyes.
 
Of course, they then covered their spider with sp
 
words written in white crayon!
 
They are darling dangling from my ceiling!
 
 
 
When/ if you grab the freebie, let me know what you
 
think as it flies out of your printer, or how it
 
worked with your students!