Bag designed for Pre K- 5 grade. In the bag you will find three of the following books:
Trees, Leaves and Bark Diane L Burns
Miss Rumphius Barbara Cooney
What Makes Day and Night Franklyn M. Branley
Feel the Wind Arthur Dorros
Pumpkin Pumpkin Jeanne Titherington
Cactus Hotel Brenda Z. Guiberson
Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Bob Barner
Activity cards:
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
• Alice Rumphius wants to travel the world as her grandfather did, but he tells her there is something else she must do and that is to do something to make the world a more beautiful place.
• Read and discuss the story with your class.
• Brainstorm a list of things that they could do to make the world a more beautiful place. These can be things they could do now or things they might be able to do in the future. Discuss the idea that the “world” can be as small as their home or as big as the globe.
• Have students make individual “around the world” books of what they want to do to make the world a more beautiful place. An example is in your bag.
• Bring in lupines and create water color pictures.
• Plant flowers or seeds.
Rock Hunting
• Go on a nature walk. Have each student choose a rock.
• Use a magnifying lens and really look at your rock.
• Sketch the rock.
• Make a list of words describing the rock.
• Create list poem or concrete poem about your rock.
• Using safety glasses and a hammer, with adult supervision, smash and rock and investigate what is inside.
• Read the book, Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor. This would be a great book to read before going on your rock hunt (if it is in your school library.)
Bug Observations
• Use your bug catcher and observe some bugs.
• Draw a bug. Observe a live bug in your bug catcher or use a plastic one.
• Make a list of the attributes of a bug. Create your own bug using art supplies, paint, crayons, clay, paper, pipe cleaners, paper clips, etc.
• Imagine you are a bug. How would you move, eat, etc.
• Read the book, In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
Extra activity ideas:
Go for a nature walk. Choose a rock, leaf, or stick. Make a list of words about your object and then write list poem or a concrete poem.
Go for a nature walk with your sound journal. Write about what you hear. Draw a picture of what you hear.
Go out side with a sketch pad. Draw what you see, bugs, weather, trees, flowers, etc.
Collect leaves. Make rubbings or create a collage with them. Read the book Leaf Man by Lois Elhert
Check out the weather. Make a list or concrete poem describing the weather or season you are in.
Show different seasons or types of weather through your movements.
Create a collage of things found in nature.
Book List
Weslandia by Paul Fleischman ISBN 0-7636-0006-7
The Empty Lot by Dale H. Fife ISBN 0-316-28167-0
My Life as an Insect by Megan McDonald ISBN 0531068749
Fireflies by Julie Brinkloe ISBN 0027133109
White is for Blueberry by George Shannon ISBN 9780060292751
The Table Where Rich People Sit by Byrd Baylor ISBN 978068419654
Up North at the Cabin by Marsha Wilson Chall ISBN 9780688097325
