Kindergarten 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!

Lois Ehlert

Check out author website

Biographical Information

Lois Ehlert interview at Reading Rockets

 

Resources to use with the book Growing Vegetable Soup

 

http://www.first-school.ws/activities/nutrition/veggiebasket1.htm

http://www.sfreading.com/K-2002/u2_growing/

http://www.kidseconbooks.com/html/growing_vegetable_soup.html

http://www.teachnet-lab.org/miami/2003/garcia/lesson_5.htm

http://www.barren.k12.ky.us/kyreads/bookfolders/G/Growing%20vegetable%20soup.doc

 

In My World 

As part of our Earth Day studies, read In My World by Lois Ehlert . In this book, the author names things she is thankful for that can be found in nature. Discuss the many natural resources the Earth provides us with. Brainstormed different types of places, such as the arctic, a beach, and a forest. Using Kidspiration, the students worked in collaborative groups to complete a graphic organizer of things found in these places using their five senses.

 

If you would like to use these templates, the files can be downloaded from http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/spring-project2005/raab/raab.htm

 

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

 

 

Listened to the story Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert. Brainstorm different things that we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch in the fall. Create your own five senses fall books. Have the students write about their five senses and illustrate their books. As a closing activity, the students completed a Kidspiration activity on the five senses in fall.  This could also be tied into the Proscope leaf project already done in the fall.

 

Other

2) PlantsAlive.pdf, Growing Vegetable soup.doc LEhlertwinter_word_web.pdf

 

 

 

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