Theme 7. THEME 7: Wheels Go Around

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1 Theme 7 48

2 CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR Wheels Go Around 49

3 WEEK 1 THEME 7/Week 1 1. A Bus Trip Book Where would you like to take a bus? Drawing Pictures of bus on the Places cover of Make a list of your book. places you would like to visit by bus. each place on your list. Making Your Bus Trip Book Label each drawing. Make a cover with a title. Put the pages together into a book. Sharing with Others Share your book with others. CH 7 1 Challenge Master Challenge Master CH 7 1 Show the Grade K Theme 7: Wheels Go Around 1. A Bus Trip Book 160 MINUTES INDIVIDUAL SMALL GROUP Materials: magazines, local newspapers, local attraction brochures, large drawing paper, scissors, glue, markers, crayons Goal: Make a book that shows and tells about a bus trip. Drawing Pictures of Places As a class, brainstorm places of interest that could be reached by bus. If possible, provide children with brochures from local attractions. Have children think about what they would see at each place. Tell them to make a list of details they would want to show in their drawing of each place. They can use pictures and words. Tell children to make pictures of each place they want to visit, including all the details they listed and more. English Language Learners: Children new to the area might not be familiar with things to do outside of their immediate neighborhood. Go over some local attractions, showing pictures and talking about what children could see and do at each place. A good bus trip book will drawings with details of real places labels on each drawing that tell the name of the place and give some kind of description a cover with a title that indicates something about contents of the book Making Your Bus Trip Book Have children label their drawings. Tell children to look at the covers of several different books they have read. Help them notice that the cover tells something about what the book is about. Have children make a drawing for their cover that s a bus, some details from one place they want to visit, and a title. Sharing with Others Tell children to share their books with other classmates. 50

4 2. My Favorite Wheels Poster 60 MINUTES INDIVIDUAL Materials: drawing paper, markers, colored pencils, crayons Goal: Create a poster of your favorite kind of wheels. Explain to children that their posters should tell others why the wheels they selected are important. Tell children to details in their poster that show the wheels in action. A good poster will a picture that shows the child s favorite wheels in action a phrase or sentence telling the name of the wheels and why they are important 3. A New Book Cover 60 MINUTES INDIVIDUAL PAIR Materials: drawing paper, crayons or colored markers Goal: Make a new cover for a book about wheels. Review with children Wheels Around, The Wheels on the Bus, and Look for Wheels, as necessary. Tell them to think about what general idea describes all the details in the book. Help children get the main idea from the text. Tell them to make sure it gives a good idea of what is in the book. Have them each draw a picture that shows the main idea they decided on for the book they picked. Tell them to a title that also expresses the main idea of the book. Encourage them to think of an exciting title that will make a reader want to read the book. Students who can t write their title can dictate it to someone who can. A good book cover will a drawing that captures what the book is about a title that effectively captures the book s main idea Challenge Master CH 7 2 THEME 7/Week 1 Other Activities TE p. 15, Ongoing Project: Challenge TE p. 41, Opposites Chart TE p. 47, Matching Phrases TE p. 59, Building Sentences TE p. 61, Writing Sentences Little Big Books, The Wheels on the Bus and Vroom, Chugga, Vroom-Vroom Education Place: 2. My Favorite Wheels Poster Create a poster of your favorite kinds of Include the wheels. name of the your wheels on favorite wheels. your poster. why these wheels are important. 3. A New Book Cover Create your own book cover. Review the book with a partner. Decide what the main idea of the Include a book is. picture and Make a new cover a title on for the book. your cover. Grade K Theme 7: Wheels Go Around Challenge Master CH 7 2 WEEK 1 51

5 WEEK 2 THEME 7/Week 2 Challenge Master CH Start Your Engine! Write your own version of a car race. Planning Your Story pictures to show your ideas. What will happen to each car in your story? Why? Telling Your Story Include the beginning, details in middle, and end of your pictures. your story. sentences about your pictures. Completing and Sharing Your Story Create a cover and a title for your story. Staple the pages together. Share your story with classmates. CH 7 3 Challenge Master Grade K Theme 7: Wheels Go Around 1. Start Your Engine! 160 MINUTES INDIVIDUAL PAIR Materials: Vroom, Chugga, Vroom-Vroom, drawing paper, tape recorder, stapler, crayons, toy cars (optional) Goal: Write what might happen next in Vroom, Chugga, Vroom-Vroom. Planning Your Story Have children discuss story ideas with a partner before they begin planning their story. Provide copies of Vroom, Chugga, Vroom-Vroom for each pair of children to look through for story ideas. Explain to children that they should draw very simple pictures in the planning stage. They can add more details as they begin telling their story on Day 3. A good story will pictures that match the story a beginning, middle, and end a cover with a title pages in story order Telling Your Story Children should draw a picture and write a sentence that tells about it for each part of the story. Remind children that their stories should have three parts: a beginning a middle an end English Language Learners: If necessary, some children may need assistance writing their story sentences. Allow these children to dictate their story sentences to another child. 52 Completing and Sharing Your Story Have children work in pairs to assist each other in completing their stories. Allow children to share their stories in different ways. Read the story aloud while sharing the pictures. Tape-record the stories for others to hear. Act out the story with toy cars if available.

6 2. The Little Engine That Could (Read Aloud) 60 MINUTES INDIVIDUAL SMALL GROUP Materials: a tape-recorded version of The Little Engine That Could, tape recorder, headphones, large sheets of drawing paper, colored pencils, crayons Goal: Draw and write about three things you think you can do. Review The Little Engine That Could with children. Have them recall what the Little Blue Engine thought she could do. Ask children Could she do it? and How? Now have them think of three things they think they can do. Tell them that these can be things they know they can do but haven t done yet, or things they don t know they can do but think they can. Have children draw pictures of each activity and describe it in words below. Display completed pictures on a bulletin board. 3. Why Is It There? 60 MINUTES INDIVIDUAL PAIR Materials: drawing paper, crayons or colored markers Goal: Draw a picture to tell a story. Review the comprehension skill of cause and effect with children. Explain that this skill can be used to understand a story better or a picture. Have children draw a picture that shows a person or thing in a position relative to something else; for example, a bicycle on top of a car. Tell them to make up a short story with a partner that explains how the person or thing came to be where it is in the picture. Then have them show their pictures to a small group and tell their stories. Other Activities TE p. 105, Matching Words TE p. 119, Building Sentences TE p. 122, Word Bank Little Big Books, The Wheels on the Bus and Vroom, Chugga, Vroom-Vroom Education Place: THEME 7/Week 2 A good picture will an activity that is clearly represented a caption that explains the activity the child thinks he or she can do A good picture will a person or thing situated in relation to something else a sentence or phrase that uses position words to describe the picture Challenge Master CH The Little Engine That Could What are three things you think you Pick things can do? you have Think of three never done things you have before. not done but think you can do. and about them. 3. Why Is It There? Tell a story with a partner. and about where Use words something is. that tell Create a story that where when tells why the thing you write. is there. Grade K Theme 7: Wheels Go Around Challenge Master CH 7 4 WEEK 2 53

7 WEEK 3 THEME 7/Week 3 1. Travel Poster Who has traveled by car, bus, train, or plane? Find out! Ask Your your class. Classmates Make a chart. Ask your classmates how they have traveled. Put their name or a mark in the right place. Make a Poster cars, buses, trains, or planes to show your answers. Tell About It Share your poster with the class. CH 7 5 Challenge Master Challenge Master CH 7 5 Ask all the students in Grade K Theme 7: Wheels Go Around 1. Travel Poster 160 MINUTES INDIVIDUAL Materials: paper, large sheets of drawing paper, markers, colored pencils, crayons Goal: Ask classmates how many of them have traveled by car, bus, train, and airplane. Make a poster to show the results. Ask Your Classmates Explain to children that they will ask each of their classmates whether they have traveled in a car, a bus, a train, and a plane. They should make a mark to record each yes answer. Help children make a chart to record their answers. Model folding a sheet of paper in half and then in half again to create four columns. Have them draw and label one picture at the top of each column (car, bus, train, and plane). English Language Learners: Draw a picture next to each word on the Wheels Around Us chart to depict that word. A good display of results will four labeled categories of transportation (car, bus, train, plane) indicators of how many children have traveled by each type of transportation answers from all children in the class Make a Poster Results should be displayed on a poster. Encourage children to come up with their own ideas for displaying the results. Each poster does not have to look the same. Discuss how information in the display can be represented by pictures, names, or numbers. Tell About It Allow children to share the results of their polls with the class. If children come up with different results, discuss possible reasons why. 54

8 2. Book Club 60 MINUTES SMALL GROUP Materials: The Wheels on the Bus; Vroom, Chugga, Vroom-Vroom; Look for Wheels, Cool Wheels (one copy for each small group) Goal: Discuss the books from this week s theme with others. Talk about rules for discussion: Only one person can speak at a time. Be a good listener. If you have a question, raise your hand. Everyone gets a turn to speak. Remind children about the predictions they made after looking at the cover and title of The Wheels on the Bus. 3. The Wheels on the Bus 60 MINUTES INDIVIDUAL (Big Book) Goal: Draw a picture and write about a time you missed a ride. Help children recall the ending of The Wheels on the Bus. If children have experienced this situation before, they can write about what really happened. If they haven t had the experience, they can think of a possible response or create a make-believe one. They might want to substitute another form of transportation for the taxi at the end of The Wheels on the Bus. Children can write about what happened on a separate sheet of paper and then attach it to the drawing. Other Activities TE p. 153, Making Books TE p. 173, Write a New Page Little Big Books, The Wheels on the Bus and Vroom, Chugga, Vroom-Vroom Education Place: THEME 7/Week 3 A good discussion will two book reviews per person in the group reviews that personal responses, such as how children feel about the books A good story response will a sentence that describes a solution a detailed illustration Challenge Master CH Book Club Talk about the Think about books you ve read why you this week. liked the Which were your books. two favorite books? Why? What book would you like to read next? 3. The Wheels on the Bus Tell a travel story. Think of a time Include you missed a bus, details in train, or plane. your picture. How was the problem solved? and about it. Grade K Theme 7: Wheels Go Around Challenge Master CH 7 6 WEEK 3 55