He Who Must Not Be Named

The beginning of March means time to celebrate a famous author.  Many of you have emailed me asking about my free unit I posted last year about this particular author.  Unfortunately, the corporation in charge of the publications of this author has put a stop to ALL products containing his name or book titles.  This includes all clipart as well.  {Yes...you will still be able to find some items out there, but it is actually illegal and I'm not willing to take a chance.}

So, I cannot give you the organizers or writing papers we used last week, but I will show you some pictures of some activities we completed.

This is one of my favorite writing activities to complete after reading "Oh, the Places You'll Go."  The students write about what they want to do when they grow up and we make hot air balloons.

 

We learned all about alliterations and tongue twisters after reading "Oh Say Can You Say?"

 

We came up with sentences about each student together as a class.  Then, each student wrote their sentence on a strip of paper, rolled it up, and attached it to their picture to show their "twisted tongues."

 

We made this anchor chart while reading The Lorax.

 

After reading The Foot Book, we discussed antonyms. {This idea came from The First Grade Parade.}  I passed out an index card with a word to each student.  Each card had an antonym pair and the students had to find their partner.  Then each person traced their foot and cut it out.  They wrote their word and illustrated it.

 

One another note, I updated my Spring Fluency packet as well as my March, April, and May packets to include the Common Core Standards.  If you have already purchased any of these packets, just click on the pictures below to go and download your Common Core Correlated version.

{The Spring packet includes the March, April, and May packets...60 fluency passages in all.}

 

You can see in the picture below that the standards being addressed on the fluency page as well as the supplemental language arts page {not pictured below} are posted in the top right corner.

Here are the March, April, and May packets.

 

One more update for you...my March Poems and Songs now includes the fluency strips. 

 

 

Now...if you've stuck with me that entire time, I will be giving away three Spring Fluency packets.  Just be a follower of my blog, TpT store, and Facebook page.  Once you are a follower of all three, leave me a comment.  I will randomly pick three winners on Wednesday.