Teaching with Reading A-Z

One of the books listed with April's community unit is Needs and Wants.  It is a really great book that teaches the difference between needs and wants.  I made a couple copies of the book as readers and then made 1 copy to cut up and create an activity.  Taking 2 pieces of colored cardstock, I set it up to represent a picture web.  1 piece for needs and the other for wants.  Once I had the map drawn, I laminated it and the pieces from the story.  After helping my verbal students read the story, we went back through page by page and put our pieces onto our needs and wants cardstock.  This was extremely difficult for them to grasp this higher level of thinking.  Needs and Wants is a very difficult concept for elementary aged children to understand. 

~Jessica

The last of my Pizza activities

Here are 2 more activities to round out our learning about pizza restaurants in the community. 

This first one is a sensory box I created for the kids to play with.  The pieces are made from felt and actual Pizza Hut personal pan pizza boxes.  I made a order sheet for the kids to go around and take people's pizza orders.  They LOVED this!

This activitiy I created using Boardmaker software.  It was a simple vocabulary cut/paste/match activity. 

With our community unit, I will next be focusing on Needs and Wants.  I have several extra activties that I created to go along with this part of the unit. 

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~Jessica

workstation tags

With each new unit of study, I create new workstation tags. These tags are used to help the children identify which workstation task they are required to complete. The pictures I choose are directly related to the vocabulary from the current unit of study. When finished with that particular unit, I store them in a ziploc bag inside of the unit storage box. Keeping the tags current with each unit helps the kids focus on the important vocabulary from each unit.

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Community Helper flash cards

This is my third attempt at getting this post made. With Blogger being down for awhile, and then a Blogger app update, I was beginning to wonder if I should even bother with this post!
I couldn't give up on sharing these awesome flash cards I found at my local teaching store! The unit I'm currently teaching is about the community. These cards are an A-Z list of community helpers. The cards come in pairs with a real life picture of a community helper and the accompanying card is pictures of items that go along with that community helper. The back of the cards hold a lot of useful information about that community helper. I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do with the cards, but I just had to have them because they fit with our unit perfectly! If you have any suggestions on what/how to use them I would love to hear from you!
~Jessica

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