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

Theme Pockets, June 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 June and examples of the activities that go in the pockets are:

Amazon Rainforest:

• rainforest layers puzzle
• blue morpho butterfly model
• draw a jaguar
• rainforest animals fact cards
• make a kapok pod

Artists: learn about five famous artists and create art projects to imitate their style.

• Henri Matisse
• Claude Monet
• Georgia O'keeffe
• Pablo Picasso
• Diego Rivera

Farmers Feed Us:

• vegetable book on a ring
• ear of corn mosaic
• seed to cereal minibook
• milk production wheel
• many different farms shape book

Lessons include:

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