Creepy Carrots - Book Extension

Creepy Carrots is such a fun book to read! The kids love this story. Who knew you could feel sympathy for carrots. This is a perfect book to teach point of view. How would YOU feel if you were a carrot in a field of rabbits? This packet will have your children making those Text To Self connections as they are introduced to these fun characters. This extension has activities for point of view, but also many other reading and language skills as well. It has activities for summarizing, retelling the sequence of events, letter writing, and more. It has math graphing activities and addition to 10. This packet is filled with fun activities that will keep your children engaged and thinking in a fun way. Use them whole group or introduce and use as center activities.

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When The Clock Strikes on Halloween - Book Extension

This cute rhyming book is perfect for k-1 children. It is great for teaching time to the hour. We created a book extension that includes activities to teach telling time, writing activities, rhyming, word order, graphing and more. This pack is filled with fun activities that will keep your children engaged and thinking in a fun way. Use them whole group or introduce and use as center activities. This book is a must have for Halloween.

SO...if you have read this book, you know the part that they all love, right?!?!?!  "When the clock strikes three..."  HAHAHA!

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Mary Wore Her Red Dress - Book Extension

This book is perfect for k-1 children learning about colors and color words. It's perfect for the beginning of school.  It's perfect for getting to know each other. It's perfect for talking about illustrators.  It's perfect for those first day school clothes. It's catchy.  It's fun. We LOVE this book!

 We included many matching, spinning, and more fun color word activities to help children become proficient in reading color words. 

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I Wanna Iguana - Book Extension

This book is perfect for teaching how to write a persuasive or opinion piece, as well as friendly letters as the boy writes letters to his mother to convince her to let him have an iguana for a pet. In this pack we included many writing activities, an informational guide to help with writing this kind of piece, and many more fun things to do with this book. 

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I Love Bugs - Book Extension

Do you love bugs? 

Chances are you said no, but for all of us science lovers and many of the children in your class they can be fascinating. Learning about bugs always creates excitement. This easy read by Emma Dodd is just the thing to start your journey to a great bug education. Our kindergarten teachers that use McGraw-Hill Wonders Reading Program were asking for this extension.  This is one of their BIG BOOK shared readings. (unit 2, week 3) Bug our firsties love it too!  These activities can be used for seat work, center work, during small group time, or even for distance learning. Check it out!!

Click, Clack, Moo I Love You! Book Extension

LOVE is in the air this month, and there is nothing more fun to read about than this click, clackin' barnyard crew getting ready for a Valentine's Day dance. We love all of Doreen Cronin's click clack books, but this one is extra special due to it's BEAUTIFUL glittery pages your kids will love and HAVE to touch. GO GET THE BOOK!  And then click below for an extension to the book and an EASY day full of love and learning!!

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The Jacket I Wear In The Snow Book Extension

This book extension is based on the classic story by Shirley Neitzel 'The Jacket I Wear In The Snow'.  It's an all time favorite of ours that we started using nearly 30 years ago as new teachers.  It is still being read today.  And we still love it!!  You'll find so many activities in the extension, including a fun "I Have Who Has" that will have your students practicing story detail, sequencing and recall!

           

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Polar Opposites( Revisited)

This is a repost from 2016, but I just had to put it back out there.  This book is seriously the cutest and so so so perfect for this time of the year.

Have you seen Polar Opposites by Eric Brooks?  LOVE IT!  It's simple, but so cute!  The story is about a polar bear named Alex and a tiny penguin named Zina.  The story tells all the different ways that they are opposites, but still the best of friends. The illustrations are adorable and perfect for January! 

You've got to have this book extension.  I'm telling you, it is the cutest book and these activities are perfect to go along with it!  There are anchor charts for the genre fiction-fantasy and purpose. There are also many engaging activities for reading such as comprehension involving rereading to match opposite words, labeling, letter writing activities, coloring page to practice our artistic ability and work on fine motor skills. 

You also get a bonus! 

We INCLUDED the Game of I Have Who Has - Opposites.  It also sell separately.  Check out the links below!

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The game of I Have Who Has is such a GREAT way to assess your students on High Frequency Words and in this case, they will also be practicing OPPOSITES! In this game the students must read the cards to find out who has the opposite of their word.  It requires listening AND reading. Our students love to play!  If you would like your own, you can click here to purchase it from our store!  Did I mention it's only $1.50!  (or FREE if you get the book extension above!) What a deal!

And...while we're talking about OPPOSITES and WINTER and FRIENDS, check this out too.  This is an old book and I truly hope you can find it.  

This book is about two animals from polar opposite parts of the world who meet up and compare how OPPOSITE they really are. There are anchor charts for the genre fiction and purpose. There are also many engaging activities for reading such as comprehension involving rereading to match opposite words, labeling, letter writing activities, coloring pages to practice our artistic ability and work on fine motor skills. There is also a fun animal sort. 

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The BIGGEST Snowman Ever Book Extension

Books about snow are always a big hit with children everywhere. This book in particular is a great book to teach your children about team work. We all love Steven Kroll's characters, Desmond and Clayton!  In this book, these two little mice work together to build the BIGGEST SNOWMAN EVER!!

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We also want to tell you about a favorite activity that one of our favorite Kindergarten teacher does with this book.  She has all her students tear up pieces of white construction paper into 1 inch pieces. (white copy paper works fine too.)  She doesn't tell the student "why".   Once they have finished, they try to hold all the pieces in their hand, they stand in a circle, and she counts...one, two, three...then, they "MAKE IT SNOW"!!!!  They throw all the pieces in the air.  Yes, it's crazy.  Yes, it's a mess.  But, now you read the book.  And now it's their turn to build THE BIGGEST SNOWMAN EVER!  They work hard to pick up all the "snow" and glue it down to make a class snowman!!  You can also make them in groups to see who makes the biggest.
HAVE FUN!!! 

Sneezy the Snowman Book Extension

Sneezy the Snowman is the perfect book for winter. This "cool" snowman is trying his best to find a way to warm up, but nothing seems to work. The children LOVE it, and it lends itself well to teaching rhyming words, writing activities, and sequencing activities.

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MUST BE SANTA Book Extension

This song brings out the performer in us all, doesn't it??? Admit it! Teachers LOVE this song. It's a favorite song for kids too, and is also a book by Tim Moore, available on Amazon. It will have your kids singing with excitement about our favorite storybook character at this time of year.

   

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The Adventures of Marco and Polo

If you are looking for a way to get your children excited about reading, try this book extension for January, or any month. We like it in January when we are talking about the frigid Arctic and Antarctic regions and making snowmen and having fun being cool. Ha! This book is about two animals from polar opposite parts of the world who meet up and compare how OPPOSITE they really are. There are anchor charts for the genre fiction and purpose. There are also many engaging activities for reading such as comprehension involving rereading to match opposite words, labeling, letter writing activities, coloring pages to practice our artistic ability and work on fine motor skills. There is also a fun animal sort. 

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Moostletoe - Book Extension

This funny Christmas story is about a very busy moose. He has many things to do to get ready for Christmas. This book is PERFECT for teaching verbs with all the action going on during the rush to get everything ready for Christmas Day. Our kiddos love this story, and all of the other versions as well. We think yours will too. It's a great way to sneak in those skills your students think are just fun and games. 

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The Very Busy Spider - Book Extension

This is one of our favorites from Eric Carle.  This book has been around a long time and children still love it!  We created this extension for this book to help you teach your students about quotation marks, story elements, sequencing and more. There are word order activities and a fun game for center time. We included a web to trace with puff paint or glue to make their own 3-D web. They LOVE those!! 

WE LOVE SPIDERS!

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The Scarecrow's Hat - Book Extension

Do you have any scarecrows hidden in your closet? Well if you are from the south you sure do, and it's time to let them out. We can't seem to get enough pumpkins, hay, corn stalks, and scarecrows on our porches right now. I'm not EVEN kidding. I can't wait until tomorrow to start shopping for pumpkins. We even have a scarecrow contest at our school each year. Anyway, this love of fall overjoys us and we have to share that love with our students. We created a new book extension to use with one of the FEW good scarecrow books we could find out there. We like this one because its fun to read, and more fun listening to your kids try to TURN AND TALK and retell it to each other. Their sequencing is hilarious, I mean excellent. So we put together a few extra things to do with this book. Check out the preview to see what all is included. We hope you enjoy it! Now go find your pumpkins and scarecrows!!!

                   

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Ten Black Dots Book Extension

Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews is another favorite for kindergartners and first graders. Who doesn't love playing with black Avery dots??? (purchased from Amazon to save the hassle of searching). The possibilities are endless. This book extension has many fun math activities including ways to make 10, using a ten frame, and counting to improve number sense. We also included two booklets to make and some sequencing as well. Give your kids ten black dots and see what they can create, write what it is secretly in pencil at the bottom or on the back, cover and let others guess what they made with their 10 black dots. You will see who your really creative kids are right away. My personal favorite was the fidget spinner.  We hope you enjoy it! 

                                                                     

There is so much more in the packet!! Your kids will have a blast working with numbers to 10! Check out the preview to see what all you'll be doing with this awesome book              by Donald Crews!

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Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark

Can  your kids relate to being afraid of coming to school after summer break? Of course they can!  Do you totally get into ocean animals as part of your science study of animals? Well, The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark book extension activities for K-2 is a pack you could use at the beginning of the year to address fears, like going back to school, or used anytime during the year. It could also make a great addition to any unit of study on ocean animals. Your kids will be making those Text To Self and Text to World connections as they read about Pout-Pout and his fears. Use this fictional book to teach fictional characters, word order, word work with rhyming words and vocabulary, as well as some plain old fun stuff. This packet is filled with fun activities that will keep your children engaged and thinking in a fun way as you use these activities to help get the conversation going about our fears and how this is NORMAL for us all.

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Wemberly Worried - Book Extension

Wemberly is a real worrier. She especially worries about the first day of school and what will happen there. This story is perfect for the first days of school. It lets the children see that their worries are shared by others around them. We all have worries, don't we?!?!
We put together some of our favorite fun and engaging activities to get your students thinking. We included writing activities, comprehension activities, and some just for fun activities too.

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Chrysanthemum - Book Extension

Are you looking for a quick, engaging activity to celebrate back to school and all those wonderful new names in your class? This book extension is short and sweet and gets the job done. We have loved this book for years!!! (You can get it from Amazon in two days with PRIME, maybe even one day if you time it right.) We had to do a book extension to go with it. We knew the kids would love it. There is a graphic organizer to do whole group, with a partner or individually, writing activities, comprehension activities, vocabulary words, a sheet for home and a craftivity to make Chrysanthemum.We also included some graphing for math that makes counting letters in your name fun.

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Clumsy Crab - Book Extention

We had a blast learning about Crabs today.  We read so many different books that the students couldn't help but fall in love with crabs.  Clumsy Crab by Ruth Galloway was one of our favorites.  If you are looking for some fishy fun, or crabby comprehension, read this book and try our activities to go with it. We are both beach and ocean animal lovers, so we spend the month of May doing an in depth study of these animals. The kids love it because the animals are so fascinating and unique. This story pairs well with Clumsy Duck for some compare and contrast activities. We included writing, comprehension activities, alphabetical order, and some crab facts to print and post. Also, if you reduce the size of some of the pages to 80-85% , they work great in an interactive notebooks. Click below to be redirected to our store, then click on the preview to see what we do with our kids to use this book in different ways. 

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