Jungle, Safari, and Zoo, oh my!

One of my favorite units to do in my classroom are Jungle, Safari and Zoo. We have two great units that are packed full of great ideas that are all explicitly linked to the Kindergarten Common Core Standards. 

Here is a peek at into my "It's a Jungle in Here" Classroom

Our Cooperative Art Wall Display

Our Writings, "If I Ran the Zoo"

The Tiger: A cooperative effort of four students.

The Lion: A cooperative effort of four students.

The Giraffe: A cooperative effort of four students.

The Alligator: A cooperative effort of four students.

The Peacock: A cooperative effort of four students.

The Zebra: A cooperative effort of four students.

Our Monkeys! Full instructions are included in our unit.

The Jungle Playhouse

The Zoo Science Center

The Wild Reading Area

Farm Fun

While I am away enjoying my brand new grandbaby, 

my substitute is having all sorts of 

farm time fun!

Check out our Farm Unit (described in the previous post) and the companion guided reading book set!

Farm Time Fun

Next week my classroom will turn into a farm. We will use the ideas contained within our new unit: Farm Time Fun!

This unit, Farm Time Fun, is strategically linked to the Common Core Standards. it is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, worksheets, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons (games or activities) included are scripted. They are written in a format that can be easily taught by the teacher or readily handed off to a parent volunteer or a classroom aide with complete confidence that objectives of the lesson will be reached. 

Contents Include:

Scripted Literacy Lessons With Independent Options:

The Muddy Farm: Naming Alphabet Letters (or Sight Words)

Potato Truck Bingo: Alphabet Letter Identification

Barnyard Flash: Reading CVC Words 

Down on The Farm: Segmenting Words into Phonemes

Where’s The Chick? Matching Sight Words

Independent Activities

Writing Words: CVC Words

Digraphs on The Farm: Identifying Digraphs

Scripted Math Lessons With Independent Options:

The Auction: Making Sums of 10.

Farmyard Flip: Greater Than/Less Than/Equal To

Farm Patterns: Extending and Creating Patterns

This Little Piggy: Counting Items to Match a Given Number

Pigs In The Mud: Subtracting Objects

Independent Activities

Farmer Fran: Connecting Numbers 1-20

Number Barns: Reading and Writing Number Words

Guided Reading Books

The Farm -Level A  

The Farm- Level C

Class Made Books

The Farm

Science

Making Ice Cream: Changing Liquid Into a Sweet Solid

Is It Alive? Classifying Living & Nonliving

Writing

What I Know About Farms

Farm Animals

Farm Word Wall

Art Projects

Make a Shape Farm

Art School: Drawing Farm Animals

Songs/Fingerplays

Grandpa’s Farm

The Wishy Washy Farm

Old MacDonald

The Rooster