Expanding
on last week’s post, here are some books and activities that focus specifically
on one aspect of K-LS1-1—animals’ need for food.
Gobble It Up! by Jim Arnosky
Pinduli by Janell Cannon
What’s for Dinner? Quirky,
Squirmy Poems from the Animal World Katherine B. Hauth
Bear
Wants More by Karma Wilson
Just One Bite by Lola Schafer
Time to Eat by Steve Jenkins and
Robin Page
Carnivores by Aaron Reynolds
Pinduli by Janell Cannon
What’s for Dinner? Quirky,
Squirmy Poems from the Animal World Katherine B. Hauth
Bear
Wants More by Karma Wilson
Just One Bite by Lola Schafer
Activity 1
Gobble
It Up! comes with a
CD. As your class listens to the song, encourage them to imagine that they are
the animals. Divide the class into two groups. Invite one group to act out the
part of the raccoon and the other to act out the part of the crawdad. Repeat
this process with the crocodile and ducks, shark and smaller fish, whale and
squid.
It Up! comes with a
CD. As your class listens to the song, encourage them to imagine that they are
the animals. Divide the class into two groups. Invite one group to act out the
part of the raccoon and the other to act out the part of the crawdad. Repeat
this process with the crocodile and ducks, shark and smaller fish, whale and
squid.
Activity 2
Guide students
as they create an interactive bulletin board with the title, What Kinds of Foods Do Animals Eat?. Ask
each student to draw and label two separate pictures—one of an animal and one
of the food it eats. Each student must pick a different animal, focusing on the
examples included in Time to Eat, Gobble
It Up, Pinduli, What’s for Dinner?,
Bear Wants More, or Just One Bite.
as they create an interactive bulletin board with the title, What Kinds of Foods Do Animals Eat?. Ask
each student to draw and label two separate pictures—one of an animal and one
of the food it eats. Each student must pick a different animal, focusing on the
examples included in Time to Eat, Gobble
It Up, Pinduli, What’s for Dinner?,
Bear Wants More, or Just One Bite.
Place the animal
pictures in a column on the left-hand side of the board. Scatter the food
drawings around the rest of the board. Staple a piece of string to each animal.
Each string should be long enough to reach any food on the board. Use a pushpin
to attach each food to the board. To match animals with their foods, students
should wrap the proper strings around the pushpins.
pictures in a column on the left-hand side of the board. Scatter the food
drawings around the rest of the board. Staple a piece of string to each animal.
Each string should be long enough to reach any food on the board. Use a pushpin
to attach each food to the board. To match animals with their foods, students
should wrap the proper strings around the pushpins.
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Great list of books, Melissa! I pinned it to my "Eating MyPlate" board as a tie-in with teaching kids about nutrition.