We’ve read these books by Eric Carle aloud: The Mixed Up Chameleon, The Grouchy Ladybug, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Little Cloud, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Students had access to other books written by Eric Carle and looked through them regularly throughout these two weeks.
When reading The Mixed Up Chameleon, we colored, cut, and glued our very own chameleons.
After reading The Grouchy Ladybug, we completed a literacy activity by listening to a word, and gluing a dot on the ladybug on the left if the /g/ sound was at the beginning of the word OR gluing the dot on the right if the /g/ sound was at the end of the word.
When reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, we colored a picture of each animal in the book. Then, we cut them out and glued them in the order we saw them in the book as a sequencing activity.
For Little Cloud, we got to use cotton balls and make our own clouds! First, we used our fine motor skills to pull the cotton balls apart, then we squeezed glue bottles, then put the cotton into the shapes of a rabbit, a stop sign, a tree, and a hat.
Lastly, after reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we painted beautiful butterflies!