Using various templates, the students traced cartoon heads, faces, bodies, and accessories to create their own cartoon characters.  This was...

As a part of our lessons on fiction story elements and our author study of Eric Carle, we compared the stories The Mixed-Up Chameleon and Th...

The students read The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle as a part of our author study and lessons on fiction story elements. After reading th...

Last week we conducted an author study of Eric Carle as a part of our unit on fiction texts and story elements. One of the books we read ...

As a part of our study on author and illustrator Eric Carle, we read The Foolish Tortoise . As we read, we discussed and charted the charact...

As a part of our author study on Eric Carle, we read The Mixed-Up Chameleon . After reading, we discussed the characters, setting, problem, ...

This is an idea that I got from Deanna Jump . In her Grinch Unit , she has several activities based off of the book How the Grinch Stole Chr...

Today we read It's Christmas, David! by David Shannon to discuss character traits. After reading and discussing David's behavior in...

As a way to analyze character's feelings and make connections, we read The Memory String by Eve Bunting . The story is about a little gi...

This week we are reading and learning about different types of emotions and feelings. We are also learning about characters and how they cha...