Thematic+Units+-+Kindergarten

= All contributions of thematic or content-based units or ideas for units are welcome. =

Thematic units can also be attached as files especially if they are lengthy.
=Kindergarten=

=**Eric Carle author study**=
 * Use Eric Carle books as read aloud and use the following activities to help support math and social skills

Books available in Spanish are: //__La mariquita malhumorada__//, //__Oso pardo, oso pardo ¿Qué ves ahí?,(__//Bill Martin and Eric Carle) //__La oruga muy hambrienta__//, __//¿El canguro tiene mamá?//__, //__El camaleon camaleónico__//, and //__De cabeza a los pies__//. Please add others that you use as well.

__La mariquita malhumorada__ - Lesson of the story: it is easier and more agreeable to share and treat others with kindness instead of fight. Other skills practiced:
 * counting skills: Using the book ask the students: How many legs? How many wings? How many spots?
 * fine motor skills: cutting, gluing, drawing
 * perceptual skills: big versus small parts on the lady bug. How big should the leaf be?

This activity was easy enough for my students to do the first week of school. I typed up a synopsis of the story to glue on the top of light blue construction paper (see attachment). Students make ladybugs out of construction paper. I precut a large red circle (our school has one that even makes halves for the wings) and a smaller gray circle. Students draw a face on the gray circle if they want to be like the grouchy ladybug or the nice ladybug. I have students cut out a leaf out of half-sheets of green paper to practice their cutting skills. Students first glue the synopsis on top. Then they glue the leaf on light blue paper first, then glue the head and wings on. Then they draw face, spots, legs and antennae. = =