Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

OH MY GOODNESS!  I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!! I have preordered this book for my niece, Zoey, and my nephew, Isaac. It will arrive in MAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow

  

http://www.amazon.com/There-Was-Lady-Swallowed-Bell/dp/0545043611/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325735067&sr=1-3 

Some teachers wrote a few ideas: 

LOTS OF LESSONS:  http://www.teachingheart.net/oldlady.html 

RETELLING:  http://almostunschoolers.blogspot.com/2011/11/there-was-cold-lady-who-swallowed-some.html

A HINT of lessons:  http://lilcountrykindergarten.blogspot.com/2012/01/there-was-cold-lady-who-swallowed-some.html

Emergent Reader:  http://candokinders.blogspot.com/2012/01/cold-lady-snow-pipe-stick-can-you-guess.html

http://www.cowden-herrick.k12.il.us/staff/burruscarolyn/readquiz/coldlady.htm

YOU TUBE READING THE BOOK:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2YX13Ek7w

http://southcentralflannelboardfactory.wikispaces.com/There+Was+A+Cold+Lady+Who+Swallowed+Some+Snow 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/There-Was-a-Cold-Lady-Who-Swallowed-Some-Snow-activities

http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/ThereWasanOldLadyWhoSwallowedSomeSnow.htm

http://www.cyberspaces.net/6traits/oldlady.html 

http://www.pecs4autism.com/servlet/the-965/There-Was-A-Cold/Detail

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell!

UPDATED DEC 9, 2011

So… the book is about… Here is a book review: http://maestra-amanda.blogspot.com/2011/12/review-there-was-old-lady-who-swallowed.html

Teaching Points

http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=10701

http://meesterc.wordpress.com/book-units-adapted/

http://lilcountrykindergarten.blogspot.com/2011/12/there-was-old-lady-who-swallowed-bell.html 

AWESOME RETELLING ACTIVITY HERE:  http://candokinders.blogspot.com/2011/12/its-all-in-retelling-bag.html

 

http://www.scrappindoodles.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=4568

Available for purchase:  http://candokinders.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-couldnt-resist.html

Puppets and Singing – YES!

Singing and Puppets!

http://prekandksharing.blogspot.com/2011/12/debbie-clements-goldie-goldfish.html

Five Little Ducks

Five Little Ducks Printables:  http://picklebums.com/2011/06/14/five-little-ducks-puppet-printable/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Ducks.shtml

The Wiggles sing Five Little Ducks:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5jnhndjX9U

http://www.first-school.ws/activities/books/animals/wild/5ducks.htm

Concepts: work on learning to count backwards from five, four, three, two, one and rhyming.

Raffi singing:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgTkJNYDht0&feature=related

http://nikarella.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/flannel-friday-five-little-ducks/ 

SIX LITTLE DUCKS by RAFFI:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIjwvFojH5o&feature=related 

Paint the rocks to represents the DUCKS:

http://www.redtedart.com/2011/03/16/kids-get-crafty-5-little-ducks-went-swimming-one-day/

ADORABLE:  http://himissjulie.com/2011/04/29/five-little-ducks-miss-julie-miss-stephanie-style/

http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/countmein/parents_five_little_ducks.html

http://childfun.com/index.php/holidays/spring-holidays/easter/385-duck-songs-poems-a-fingerplays-easter-crafts-and-activities.html

DUCK THEME ideas:  http://stepbystepcc.com/animals/duck.html

Little Book:  http://www.familyliteracyexpertise.org/Resources/pdf/FiveLittleDucks.pdf

http://www.nancymusic.com/5Dragonsplay.htm

http://www.squidoo.com/five-little-ducks-books-songs-pictures-and-models

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~kmbugos/picture%20books/Site/Welcome_files/Five%20Little%20Ducks.pdf

story, sequence of events, rhyme and rhythm    http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/3449.html

Yet Another Alphafriends Helpful Site!!!

The Alpha Friends!

http://www.elemedu.ccs.k12.nc.us/Houghton_Mifflin/Alpha_Friends/Alpha_Friends-Main_Page.htm

Lots of Letters and Sounds sites:  http://mrskilburnkiddos.wordpress.com/reading/abcs-letter-and-sound-recognition/

Poetry In Kindergarten

Poetry in Kindergarten. This teacher does a great job of explaining the week’s procedure:

http://theinspiredapple.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-is-how-we-do-it-poetry-journals.html

Ideas for Letter Cycle and Name Cycle and Letter Workboxes

Letter M

http://rockabyebutterfly.blogspot.com/2011/11/letter-m-workboxes.html

http://rockabyebutterfly.blogspot.com/2011/01/mmmmm-books.html

Letter T

http://rockabyebutterfly.blogspot.com/2011/03/letter-t-books.html

Letter L

http://rockabyebutterfly.blogspot.com/2011/11/letter-l-workboxes.html

As we look at these boxes, we gather more ideas to add to the Letter Cycles or Name Cycles we develop.

The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie

A wonderful kindergarten teacher, Diane, who taught the Shared Reading Lesson for, The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed A Pie  http://www.amazon.com/Know-Swallowed-Picture-Puffin-Books/dp/0140565957/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321819865&sr=1-7       , last week sent my pictures!  

She found the puppet and play food for the retelling part. The students were so excited!   

This is the Little Old Lady!  http://www.amazon.com/There-Was-Old-Lady-Storysack/dp/0859538354/ref=sr_1_cc_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321819971&sr=1-3-catcorr    She found her own food items since the Old Lady swallows different items in this story. 

The students made their own Old Lady with a baggy as a tummy to hold their food on day five.  The students retell the story with their own Old Lady.

We used the Houghton Mifflin chart to reinforce sequencing chart.  The children practiced retelling the story using the sequence skill in the pocket chart, and on their own papers and their own little pieces. 

(Diane took this teaching opportunity in science to include a lesson on food groups, notice the sort in the pocket chart)

Students had several opportunities to retell the story using the puppet after the teacher modeled.  Each student also made their own puppet.

http://writingeverydayworks.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/i-know-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-pie/

I wrote up the Shared Reading lessons on Writing Every Day Works.

The materials are from the site:  http://lilcountrykindergarten.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-know-old-lady-who-swallowed-pie.html

This is NOT ALL that Diane did.  This is just the wonderful extra that http://candokinders.blogspot.com/2011/11/youve-gotta-see-this.html and  http://lilcountrykindergarten.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-know-old-lady-who-swallowed-pie.html did not write about yet. 

Enjoy! Deb

 

Talk Points

http://www.learningresources.com/product/teachers/shop+by+grade/kindergarten/talk+point–8482-,+set+of+5.do?sortby=&

 

Several blogs recommend these “Talk Points” as tools for reminding kids what to do during a center or during the busy time during the day.  It is a great way to have a ‘teacher voice’ on a machine.