Our Reading Streets selection this week was Scarcity. It wasn’t one of my favs. But I found a few reader’s theaters to help explain scarcity A reader’s theater for Old Mother Hubbard is fun and explains scarcity really well. It can be found HERE at Very Short Mother Goose Tales.
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| Stellaluna Bat Handprint Art and Bat Acrostic Poetry |
We decided to do some other fairy tales too since these kids read so well. We did Hallowiener in a reader’s theater that I found by Dave Pilkey (whose friends were scarce) and then I read them Stellaluna (whose mom was scarce). We had this in a reader’s theater too. (I collect them…kids love them).
There is only a week till Halloween so these books were fun to add to our Scarcity line-up. And we read all as a reader’s theater. Every day was a new one. Kids love and get into reading with expression and since I have one table of kids read a part they try to outdo each other’s tables groups. It’s funny.
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| Bat Acrostics and Handprint Bat Art. |
Here at Learning to Give has a good diagram to show what we have to do when things get scarce in anybody’s life. We will discuss when kids can donate things they have outgrown to thrift stores so people in need can go buy them for not a lot of money. They can also give away if they have extra things or money.
Many of the kids told how they pass down clothes to friends or cousins. We talked about times we had to do without when mom or dad were out of money or times we had to choose when we only had a certain amount of money and wanted more than we could buy. Or times when we felt lonely when friends were scarce (like Stellaluna).
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| Stellaluna Activities with Bat Art and Bat Acrostics |
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| Bat Acrostic Poetry |
I decided to keep with our writing non-fiction reports and chose to do them on Bats as a springboard from
Stellaluna (since Halloween is around the corner). We started with a FACTUAL ACROSTIC POEM ON BATS. I made a list of facts on the board as we read 2 Scholastic News Magazines on Bats and 2 non-fiction books.
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| Halloween Bats bulletin board |
Then we brainstormed facts we heard and wrote them down on sloppy copy paper. Then we came up with beginning words for sentences starting with B, A, T, and S. They were quicker than I thought! HERE at First Grade Parade are some really cute ABC Order bat activities as a free download. Thanks
The next day we added reports on the back of our acrostic BATS paper after reading 2 more non-fiction books and Stellaluna. By this time the kids heard repeats of many of the facts so had internalized a lot of them. Did you know the smallest bat is the Bumblebee bat and it is smaller than your pinkie finger? So cute! (well, not if it landed in my hair!). EEK!
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| Bat Acrostic Poems |
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| Handprint bats |
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| Cute little Black Bat made from handprints! |
Here is a comprehension test that goes well with the Scarcity story describing what Scarcity means HERE at Social Studies for Kids. A review of the Scarcity story that was great I found Here at Mrs. Volak’s Class. HERE are more of her activities.
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| We wrote BAT REPORTS on the back of the poetry paper. |
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| Brown Bat Acrostic |
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| Here I am in my Halloween costume with the bat bulletin board behind me. One of my mom helpers was also Jessie for Halloween! It was fun to compare notes on how we made them. |
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| Bat Acrostics and Handprint Bats |
We finished our BAT acrostics and BAT reports. And lookie at our cute little hand tracing BATS we made during ART! I guess these are vampire bats noting all the red blood the boys colored on these poor little bat teeth, lol.
Happy Halloween!
