Grade 1 Author Study Ideas

I have collected numerous websites and technology integration ideas to be used when a teacher is studying a particular author.  Check them out!

Ezra Jack Keats

            Check out the Author Website

View BrainPop Jr. Movie about Ezra

Jan Brett

See sample of a Kindergarten Kid Pix project done after reading 'The Mitten

'

 Jan Brett's website has a word search based on 'The Mitten'

 

Daisy Comes Home

 

 

 

Eric Carle

General Projects

Check out the Author website

Eric Carle interview at Reading Rockets

Eric Carle interviews at RIF

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/carle.htm

Biographical Information

 

 

The Hungry Caterpillar

 

http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/Very_Hungry_Caterpillar_word_choice.htm

Online word search

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/453.shtml

http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/hungrycaterpillar/sequencing.htm

http://web.bsu.edu/00smtancock/EDRDG430/activities/hungrycater.htm

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/carle/carletg.html

http://web.bsu.edu/00smtancock/CyberLessons/caterpillar.html

 

 

The Grouch Ladybug

 

1. Study a real ladybug using the Proscope (displayed on a tv or projector).

 

2. Idea from Prescott: Kindergarten teacher, Kelly Fay, has a great "grouchy ladybug" project that takes advantage of the school camera.

(another type of technology).

Kelly takes a photo of each student making a really grouchy face.

The students make large paper ladybugs and paste their own grouchy face onto the head section.

These are displayed along with the student's response to the writing prompt: "I get grouchy when..."

 

3. After reading The Grouchy Ladybug, brainstorm a list of things that make us grouchy with your class. Then have your students Finish the sentence “ _________ makes me grouchy’.  Correct spelling. Create a Kid Pix template that says “_________ makes me grouchy”.    Have the students open the template and complete the sentence.  Illustrate, type name, save and print.

 

4. After reading the book, open a blank document in Kid Pix and ask the students to draw a picture of the grouchy ladybug meeting an animal of their choice. Have them draw a clock and show the time the two animals met. Have them think carefully about where to place the sun in the drawings, depending on the time of day they chose.

 

5.    In Kidpiration have two webs, ‘Things That make me happy’ and “Things that make me sad”.  Drag examples of both into the appropriate web.  Enter name and print.  Use template: Grouchy

 

6.  Survey the class on what their favorite insect is.  Graph it using the Graph Club

 

7. Ladybug project from Susan McGregor

ladybug poem.ppt

Last slide information.doc

Teacher and Assistant Overview.doc

THE GROUCHY LADYBUG.ppt

THE_GROUCHY_LADYBUG DEMO.ppt

Brown Bear, brown bear

http://www.bcps.org/apps/CBTIA/cbtia.aspx?id=3019">Consider this Kidspiration sequencing activity

 

 

The Very Lonely Firefly

 

Before reading the book, have the student draw pictures of six things she/he knows about light. As the student reads the book, compare what was drawn to the kinds of light in the book. After reading, go to the lab and draw any new kinds of light that were in the book but not in the student's drawing using Kidpix. Discuss the various types of light-producing objects

Dr. Suess

 

 

DrSeuss.kid - check out this template for the -at, -am, -ish and -op wird families,  This can be modified to target any book/word family you like! 

 

The Foot Book

Graph shoes according to characteristics using the Graph Club.

 

Green Eggs and Ham

Play the Seussville 'Sam-I-Am Says' activity

 

The King's Stilts

Pretend you are the king or queen of a country.  Write about your responsibilities and the fun parts of your job. Type and illustrate in Kidpix.

 

My Many Colored Days

See some ideas on writingFix.com

 

Horton Hears a Who

Collaborate with the class to write a 3 scene story.  Create the story using suessville's story maker Show the class their story.

 

Put a speck of dust on a microscope slide and examine it using the proscope (Can do this in the classroom or lab using the mobil cart)

 

Horton Hatches the Egg

Create some new animals by "crossing" two--What would you get if you crossed and alligator with a giraffe?  Make your own combinations and draw and label them in Kidpix.

 

 

Bartholomew and the Oobleck

Make a weather graph in the Graph Club.

 

Hop on Pop

Do the rhyme activity in Study Dog Level 2 called "rhyming words'.

 

 

The Lorax

Discuss the importance of trees for people and animals.  Write a sentence discouraging the destruction of the rain forest and type and illustrate in Kidpix.

 

The Cat in the Hat

Would the story be different if the Cat in the Hat told it?  Write it from his perspective.

 

Kevin Henkes

Check out the Author Website            

Chrysanthemum

 

1.    Have the students type the following poem with their name in the blank space.  Then illustrate.  A template could be created in Kidpix if you do not wish for the students to type this much text.

 Everybody Has a name.

Some are different,

Some, the same.

Some are short,

Some are long.

All are right,

None are wrong.

My name is ___________,

It's special to me.

It's exactly who

I want to be!

 

 2.  Open Blank Kid Pix document.  Using keyboard, type name 5 times.  Change font and color of each name.  Use pencil tool to draw different flowers around each name and color.  Have students color in hill below. Have students write on bottom or top:  My name has ___ letters.

  

3. Graph the number of letters in classmates' names.

 

 4. Have each student write their name, count the letters in their name and write down the number

On the board ask each student to say how many letters are in their name, keep track of how many people have names with X letters

Use the Graph Club to create a chart.

 

 Wemberly Worried Project

 

Have the students complete the sentence “When I am worried I…” in class. Correct spelling. Create a Kid Pix template that says “When I am worried I…”  Have the students open the template and complete the sentence.  Illustrate.

 

henkes.pdfCheck out this pdf full of manual activities related to Wemberly Worried

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Arnold Lobel