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Bugs, Insects, Butterflies, Zoo and other Themes, Thematic Units, Teacher Resources, and Education Books

Bugs / Insects / Butterflies
The Zoo

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Bugs, Insects, Butterflies Themes / Thematic Units (4 products)

Bugs Theme Thematic Unit Preschool Teacher Resource BookBugs Theme Book

Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $7.95
Product #: 2061055
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Save time and add energy to your lessons with this fun and engaging resource! This handy teacher resource book features entire units, single ideas to complement these units, and reproducibles your kids will love! You'll find everything you need on bugs in one great book!

Some of the features you'll enjoy include:

  • literacy activities
  • math activities
  • basic-skills reinforcement
  • craft ideas
  • songs, poems, and fingerplays
  • snack ideas
  • learning centers
  • timesaving patterns and reproducibles

Pages: 48
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The Mailbox Magazine
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Bugs Theme / Thematic Unit Teaching SuppliesGoing Buggy! Theme

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $11.99
Product #: 4002477
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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:

  • Language arts, math, science, and social studies standards information (Standards correlation chart)
  • Phonemic awareness, shared reading, and interactive writing
  • 2 theme mini-books for independent and guided reading
  • Hands-on math, science, and social studies activities
  • Over 30 creative activities
  • Easy-to-use reproducibles
  • PLUS a full-color overhead transparency you can use to create an instant learning environment in your classroom

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!

Pages: 64
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Insects Theme, Thematic Unit Education Book for TeachersInsects Theme Book

Grade Level: First Grade, Second Grade, and Third Grade
Price: $7.95
Product #: 2003192
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This theme book provides everything you need all in one place—tons of ideas, centers, patterns, crafts, AND reproducibles. The best thematic units and related ideas from The Mailbox and Teacher's Helper magazines are compiled in one handy resource! Whether you need an entire unit or just a few creative activities to energize your current lessons, this timesaving collection of ideas can meet your needs.

Some of the features you'll enjoy include:

  • basic-skills reinforcement
  • math activities
  • science projects
  • craft ideas
  • literature connections
  • writing activities
  • timesaving patterns and reproducibles
  • observation activities
  • student-created booklets

Butterflies Science Teaching Supplies Leveled Reader Book, Leveled ReadingButterflies Leveled Reader

Grade Level: First - Second Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: WR40593
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Packed with interesting facts about insect characteristics, life cycles, and communities. Simple, repetitive text closely linked with delightful, full-color photography makes this leveled reader book exceptionally appealing to the youngest readers. Includes a glossary, a list of books and web sites for further information, and an index.

This leveled reader informs readers about many butterflies' astonishing transformation, hibernation, and migration.

7"x7", 24 pages, full-color photographs
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Zoo Theme / Thematic Units (2 products)

Zoo Theme Thematic Unit Preschool Teaching SuppliesZoo Theme Book

Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $7.95
Product #: 2061056
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Save time and add energy to your lessons with this fun and engaging resource! This handy teacher resource book features entire units, single ideas to complement these units, and reproducibles your kids will love! You'll find everything you need on the zoo in one great book!

Some of the features you'll enjoy include:

  • literacy activities
  • math activities
  • basic-skills reinforcement
  • craft ideas
  • songs, poems, and fingerplays
  • snack ideas
  • learning centers
  • timesaving patterns and reproducibles

Pages: 48
You may also like:
Beach
Bugs
Our entire collection of Preschool Themes / Thematic Units
Our collection of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of teaching books
The Mailbox Magazine


Leveled Reader, Leveled Reading Book Counting, Beginning ReadingCounting at the Zoo

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: WR84784
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Presents the complete range of math concepts and skills students are expected to master during the first grade, moving sequentially through math topics. The text in this book reflects the relevance of math to daily life, and has been leveled to match students’ reading levels as they progress from the beginning of first grade to the end.

In this leveled reader book a young girl visits the zoo with her Aunt Nina and has fun comparing the numbers of various animals she sees. Easy-to-read text introduces comparisons of numbers from 0 to 20.

Special features include:

  • fun stories in familiar settings that relate math to the real world
  • full-color photos and illustrations that enhance and support both the stories and the math skills
  • developed in consultation with math and reading curriculum specialists
  • a glossary to promote reading and math comprehension

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