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    Unit 6 Extension Activities

    himself / herself. The student who guesses


    The Animal Band correctly comes up and reads the next piece of
    paper.
    Activity 1
    Activity 4
    Story Sentences
    Directions: Copy the following text on the Make a Flute
    board: Materials: Corrugated cardboard, straws (8 per
    student), paint, plasticine.
    We have got several pets at home. I have got Preparation: Flutes: For each student: Cut a
    a snake. My mum and I have got two rabbits. rectangle from cardboard (20 x 8 cm).
    My sister has got a spider. My brother has got Directions: Distribute corrugated cardboard
    three dogs. My dad has got a turtle. and straws. Ask students to cut the straws into
    different lengths and seal the bottom of each
    Have students copy the text into their straw with a piece of plasticine. Then have
    them insert the straws into alternate openings

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    notebooks and illustrate it.
    in the corrugated cardboard, from longest to
    Activity 2 shortest. Encourage students to paint their
    flutes with fun designs.
    Animal Quiz
    Materials: Non fiction and fairy tale stories
    about animals.
    Directions: Bring to class fairy tale stories in
    which the main characters are animals.
    Divide the class into two teams. Ask teams
    questions about what the animals from the
    story can and can’t do in real life: Can a donkey
    swim? Yes, it can. Can a donkey fly? No, it
    can’t. Award teams one point for every correct
    answer. The team with the most points wins the
    game. Play the game again, but this time have
    Activity 5
    students ask the questions.
    I Can Booklets
    Materials: Paper (4 pieces per student),
    Activity 3 construction paper, stapler.
    I Can, I Like, I Have Got Directions: Distribute paper. Ask students
    Materials: Scraps of paper. to draw four things they can do, each on a
    Directions: Distribute scraps of paper. Help different piece of paper. Have them write a
    students write sentences about what they sentence describing what they can do at the
    can do, what they like and something about bottom of each page: I can read. Provide
    their appearance. I can run. I like dogs. I have vocabulary as needed. Then have students
    got brown hair. Collect the pieces of paper. make a book cover from construction paper
    Choose one at random and read it aloud. Have and staple the pages together. Write the
    the class guess who is describing title I can on the cover. Divide the class into

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    Unit 6 Extension Activities

    groups. Have students show their books to the and which are make-believe.
    members of their groups. Language Links: Have students look at the
    scenes in the stories and explain why they are
    Activity 6 real or make-believe: The pig in the story can
    build a house. Real pigs can’t build houses.
    Water Bells
    Materials: Different -sized glasses and glass
    jars, water, pencils.
    Activity 4
    Directions: Pour different levels of water into Make-Believe Animal Riddles
    glasses and glass jars. Strike each glass and Materials: Blue and white construction paper
    have students help you line them up from (2 sheets per student), glue.
    lowest sounding to highest sounding. Invite Directions: Distribute materials. Tell students
    students to come up and experiment with to fold blue construction paper in half to make
    striking the jars to produce a tune. a card. Ask them to cut two slits 2 cm apart
    on the fold to make a tab and press the tab
    through to the inside. Have students write a

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    Dolphins are Special! riddle to describe a make-believe animal on
    the front of their blue construction paper.
    Then ask students to draw a make-believe
    Activity 1 animal on a piece of white construction paper
    Draw and Write and cut it out. Have them glue the left side of
    Materials: Animal reference books. their cutout animal to the tab. Tell students to
    Directions: Divide the class into pairs and write the name of their animals on the inside of
    give each pair an animal reference book. Ask the card.
    students to draw a picture of an animal and
    write facts about their animal to share with the
    class.

    Activity 2
    Venn Diagram
    Directions: Have students draw a Venn
    diagram in their notebooks to compare two
    animals they like.

    Activity 3
    Language Links: Have students take turns
    Real or Make-believe? reading their riddles:
    Materials: Nonfiction and fairy tale stories A: She can talk. She can sweep the floor. She
    about animals. can make orange juice. Who is it?
    Directions: Display books and have students B: It’s the (Little Red Hen).
    read the titles. Ask them to predict from the
    cover whether the book is about real or make- If student B guesses correctly, have student
    believe events. Show students pictures from A show the picture inside his or her card and
    the stories and discuss which scenes are real student B come up and read his or her riddle.
    2

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