Where is the green sheep

I love reading books to my kids but it does get a little tedious reading the same books over and over again. A great way to refresh a book is to use a prop. Props bring a story to life. They involve the kids, keep their attention and expand their imaginations. Here are 4 simple crafts yourRead More

Do you read Mem Fox's 'Where is the Green Sheep?' with your class? I love it! Not only are the illustrations just gorgeous, but it provides perfect teaching opportunities for a number of concepts. This week we enjoyed this story as part of our phonics work (learning about the digraph /sh/), to work on grammar (learning what an antonym is) and as a prompt for some very cute writing. Today I've stopped by to share a few photos of our Green Sheep inspired fun! We started by reading the story…

I found this book while browsing through our school library. I thought it would be a great book for kids that are working on attributes, prepositions, syntax, expanding length of utterances and asking "where" questions etc. Also, this is great if you have a child working on "sh" at the sentence level. These pictures can be used for sequencing, or you can put them around your classroom for your students to find ("the bath sheep is on top of something yellow."). You could have kids find the…

Redlands College Library, Brisbane. For Book Week in 2005 we created small displays to match some of the short-listed books, and this is one of them.

Make Fun Sheep Puppets - Art Project for Where is the Green Sheep Here is a fun art project to do with preschoolers that goes along with reading Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox.

Day 2 of the week - The theme this week is Books! Then letters of the week are W, w, X. Learning Activity- I read the book Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox to Connor and Lauren. Then, Connor and Lauren each chose a color. I cut a construction paper cloud usingtheir chosen color. They glued the shape to the form sheet (Mailbox Magazine February/March 2009). Next, they decorated the shape so it resembled a sheep from the bookand named the color of their sheep and where their sheep might…

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