This document provides materials and activities for a unit study based on the book Harry the Dirty Dog. It includes lessons and printables for social studies, language arts, art, math, and science. Some key activities are discussing what makes good pets, sequencing the story, drawing Harry using basic shapes, making bubbles using different solutions, and adding printables like sequencing cards and mini-books to a lapbook. The unit aims to teach students about pets, story elements, shapes, bubbles, and more through engaging with the story and accompanying lessons.
This document provides materials and activities for a unit study based on the book Harry the Dirty Dog. It includes lessons and printables for social studies, language arts, art, math, and science. Some key activities are discussing what makes good pets, sequencing the story, drawing Harry using basic shapes, making bubbles using different solutions, and adding printables like sequencing cards and mini-books to a lapbook. The unit aims to teach students about pets, story elements, shapes, bubbles, and more through engaging with the story and accompanying lessons.
This document provides materials and activities for a unit study based on the book Harry the Dirty Dog. It includes lessons and printables for social studies, language arts, art, math, and science. Some key activities are discussing what makes good pets, sequencing the story, drawing Harry using basic shapes, making bubbles using different solutions, and adding printables like sequencing cards and mini-books to a lapbook. The unit aims to teach students about pets, story elements, shapes, bubbles, and more through engaging with the story and accompanying lessons.
This document provides materials and activities for a unit study based on the book Harry the Dirty Dog. It includes lessons and printables for social studies, language arts, art, math, and science. Some key activities are discussing what makes good pets, sequencing the story, drawing Harry using basic shapes, making bubbles using different solutions, and adding printables like sequencing cards and mini-books to a lapbook. The unit aims to teach students about pets, story elements, shapes, bubbles, and more through engaging with the story and accompanying lessons.
book by Gene Zion unit and printables by Ami Brainerd Social Studies
Pets Look throughout the story at all the different animals (dogs, birds, cats, spider, caterpillar, butterfly, etc.). Which ones make good pets? You may even want to take this one step further and think of other animals (elephant, flamingo, etc.) that would probably not make good pets and discuss why.
Go-along books Usborne Cats and Kittens Usborne Dogs and Puppies My Pet Hamster by Anne Rockwell (LRFOS) I Really Want a Dog Love is a Happy Cat Are You the Pet for Me? by Mary Jane Checchi
For a field trip this week, visit your local pet shop and find out how to take care of other pets, too. You could also call a vet and visit a veterinarian's office to learn more about pets.
Taking Care of Pets
Harry is the pet of the family in the story. Does your student know how to take care of a pet?
Discuss the similar needs that animals and humans have: food & water, shelter, affection, grooming, etc. Use the shutterfold book activity to aid in your discussion of the various things that people and animals both need.
Domestic Animals A domestic animal is an animal that adapts to living with human beings and to serving their purposes; they are generally tame and depend on their owners for food and water. Discuss the differences between a dog and a wolf (even though they are both canines). Would your child want a wolf for a pet? Discuss the differences between a cat and a lion or tiger (even though they are both felines). Discuss other animals that are commonly considered domestic in your neck of the woods. Complete the prepared mini-book and add it to your lapbook or notebook. Staying Safe and Making Smart Choices When Harry heard the bathwater running what did he do? (He took the scrubbing brush and hid it in the backyard; then he ran away from home.) If you are afraid of something or don't like something, why is running away a bad choice? What dangers could Harry have faced when he ran away? (getting lost, getting hit by a car, getting taken by a stranger, not finding food, not finding shelter, etc.) It would have been smarter and safer for Harry to simply stay home and take his bath! If you can think of specific applications of this lesson for your student, make sure to discuss those, too.
Language Arts
Memory/List Making Can your student recall the various ways that Harry got dirty? See how many he can remember after additional readings, too. 1. He played where they were fixing the street 2. He played at the RR 3. He played tag with the other dogs 4. He slid down a coal shoot
Complete the "How Did Harry Get So Dirty?" envelope fold book and add it to your lapbook.
Vocabulary and Drama
Discuss and act out the following words with your student. buried dig furiously up the stairs he dashed slept soundly slid down a coal chute
Complete the picture dictionary.
Exclamation Points Show your student what an exclamation point is in the text of the book. Demonstrate how you read a sentence with emphasis when an exclamation point is at the end. You may want to go through the entire text together and count the exclamation points that you find. Encourage your student to practice reading these sentences with enthusiasm and excitement!
Story Sequencing Ask your student to add illustrations to the sequence cards and put them in order. At the end of the week (after you student has done the sequencing activity many times), staple the cards together to form a booklet and add it to your lapbook or notebook.
Art
Drawing Harry Look at the illustrations of Harry with your student. Can your student determine what basic shapes compose Harry? (rectangle body, crescent tail, etc.). If your student can "see" the different shapes, encourage her to draw Harry. Add your student's drawing to her lapbook.
Complete the shutterfold book. Color one white dog with black spots. Then, talk to your student about negative space (the white are) by coloring a black dog with white spots. Your student will have to plan ahead in order to color the second dog.
Color Choices in the Illustrations
Look through the illustrations with your student. What main colors did Bloy choose? (green, yellow, black, and white). Encourage your student to draw a picture using only those colors. (The two page spread of Harry playing tag with the other dogs is a good example of the green, yellow, black, and white color choices.)
Math
Counting This book has endless opportunities for counting practice. Dogs (cats or even birds) throughout the book will supply even the most eager counter with plenty to count! You can also use the "Dirty Dog" math mat for counting opportunities.
Addition & Subtraction Story Problems
Use the "Perfect Pals Pet Shop" printables for extra story problem practice. You can also make up your own story problems to extend the lesson (How much would it cost to buy one of each pet in the shop?, etc.).
Science
Bubbles! Does your student know how bubbles are made? What are they? A bubble is like a pocket--a pocket made of soap and water and filled with air. When you blow air into a soap and water mixture, the soap forms a thin skin around the air, trapping it . . . and creating a bubble!
Make some bubbles this week and have fun with them.
If you'd like, make two different kinds of bubbles. Record observations on the mini-book provided in the printables section.
Bubble Solution #1 1/2 cup Dawn 2 cups distilled water 2 teaspoons sugar bubble wand or pipette
Bubble Solution #1 (from Steve Spangler Science)
1 cup of distilled water 2 tablespoons Dawn dish soap 1 tablespoon glycerin bubble wand or pipette Extra Fun!
Game Idea-- Hide the Scrubbing Brush
Find an object that represents a scrub brush (maybe a new sponge or whatever you have on hand). Take turns using the object to play hide and seek with your student.
Library List Other books by Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham: No Roses for Harry Harry by the Sea The Plant Sitter All Falling Down The Sugar Mouse Cake Dear Garbage Man
Picture Dictionary make a hole for the scrub brush.
The buried bone has The dogs dashed
been found. down the street. The cement came The dog slept down the chute. soundly. Harry the Dirty Dog Sequencing
Harry hides the scrub brush.
Harry runs away from home. He plays at the railroad.
He plays with other dogs. He slides down a coal chute.
Harry comes back home. He does tricks and dances and sings.
He brings the scrub brush to his family. His family gives him a bath.
The recognize Harry! Harry falls asleep.
Directions: Cut out as one piece. Put on the table (How did Harry get so dirty?… should be face down). Fold each triangle up, so that you have four triangles that can open. Turn book back over and fold on center fold (above text). When you are finished , you should have a rectangle (with the words on the front). When you open the book, you should have four separate sec- tions to write in.
irt y r o D ar y? tS dH Di w Ho Ge Directions: Fold paper in half. Cut around bubble shape. Record answer to the question inside the bubble book.
What Is a Bubble? Directions: Cut book out as one piece. Fold like an accordion, using dotted lines as your guide. Paste back of last piece to your lapbook or notebook.
Ingredients:
Ingredients: Solution #1
Solution #2 Observations:
Observations: The Best Bubble sugar
sugar water
water glycerin
glycerin dish soap
dish soap Dirty Dog Directions: Laminate page. Using a dry erase marker, write the number of dirt spots you want your student to draw in the box. Give your student a brown or black marker. Let him draw the spots. Ask him to “wash the dog” (give him a tissue to erase the marks) and start the process over again.
If your student needs practice writing numbers, let him write the number in the box for you to draw the dirt spots on the dog. A Dirty Dog
Draw dirt spots on the dog.
Perfect Pals Pet Shop
$5 $8
$7
$1
$6
$10 Lucy purchased a cat. Reed Nora purchased four hamsters. purchased a dog. How much How much did she spend? did they spend all together?
Brooke purchased two goldfish. Eddie purchased a bird and a sack
She paid with a $5. How much of bird food. If his total was $9, how money did she get back? much was the bird food? Find the Pets! Words to Find: hamster, turtle, dog, cat, bird, snake, fish.
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g f t u r t l e Directions: Cut out book as one piece. Fold in half. Cut the dotted line. (If you desire, you can fold the book in half again and put a title on the front, but you don’t have to do this.)
Add a list (let your student dictate as you discuss) of domestic animals under the flap on the right and wild animals under the flap on the left.
Domestic Wild Directions: Cut out rectangle as one piece. Fold on dotted lines. You
A Black Dog should have a book that opens like the
“shutters” on a window. Color both Harrys (one as a white dog with black
with White Spots spots and one as a black dog with
white spots. Paste the dogs under the shutters.
A White Dog with Black Spots Cut pocket out. Fold back flap up and wrap side flaps around the back and glue down. Store the scrub brushes (next page) in the pocket.
Hide the Scrub Brush Game Directions: You are going to make six little shutterfold books. Cut out each book as one piece. Fold flaps to the middle. Cut out pictures. Discuss the lesson with your student. Let your student match up the pairs of what people and pets both need. Paste one pair into each shutterfold book.
Food and Water Affection
Grooming Beds Pets People Need Need
Pets People Need Need
Pets People Need Need
Pets People Need Need Pets People Need Need
Pets People Need Need
Doctors Veterinarians Grooming A Place to Sleep
Exercise Food and Water Exercise Love and Affection
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