Theme Pockets, April, Grades 1-3 – Teacher Resource, E-book

Theme Pockets, April contains reproducibles galore--minibooks, patterns, writing forms. Interactive bulletin boards, calendar form, and up-to-date bibliographies included. Step-by-step instructions provided, including ways to make book covers extra special. Lots of reproducible illustrations included. Help your students make books with pockets and they'll have a resource they created themselves of which they can be proud.

The three topics for April and examples of the activities that go in the pockets are:

Easter:

• baby bunny made from a lunch bag
• watercolor eggs
• paper plate chick
• woven basket
• writing projects
• "how do you like your eggs?" graph

Animals That Lay Eggs:

• a paper plate turtle
• fish prints
• a leaping frog
• fish & reptile flap book
• frog life cycle "movie"
• egg riddle book

Celebrate Earth Day:

• "garbage mobile"
• ozone layer "puppet"
• lunch box pop-up book
• Earth Day pledge

Lessons include:

• colorful art projects
• creative writing
• nonfiction writing
• science
• informational reading and writing