CTP2477 : Going Buggy! Theme (Grades K-1)

Incorporating Standards into Fun & Fulfilling Learning Experiences

Includes a colorful garden transparency to create an instant learning environment!

Looking for a more exciting way to teach the standards? Immerse your students in imaginative, innovative activities as you incorporate balanced literacy and academic subjects into theme teaching.

This teacher resource book will help you meet national, state, and district standards while you integrate academic subjects with fun thematic activities. It features imaginative, innovative ideas to help you motivate children as they immerse themselves in a theme.

This 64-page teacher resource book includes:

Watch children's excitement and knowledge grow as they

• practice phonemic awareness skills while singing and reciting theme-related songs and poems
• create mini-books that reinforce guided reading and sight word practice
• complete take-home reading and journal activities as the "bug buddy of the day"
• practice measuring a flower with a caterpillar
• learn about, observe, and draw parts of a bug
• explore kindness and respect for all living things
• follow simple recipes to make Lovely Ladybugs and Bug Salad
• present a dramatic play for their peers or parents
• showcase their art projects, class books, and knowledge of bugs at a Bug Bonanza culminating event

See how easy it can be to meet standards, incorporate balanced literacy components into your classroom curriculum, and engage children in a fun thematic unit!