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THEME 6:
Animal Adventures
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CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR
Animal Adventures
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Animal Adventures
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WEEK 1
1.
The Pig and I
120 MINUTES
INDIVIDUAL
Materials: Graphic Organizer Master 3, drawing paper and
colored markers or crayons (optional)
Challenge Master CH 6–1
Goal: Write your own story based on
The Sleeping Pig.
THEME 6/Week 1
Name
1. The Pig and I
What would happen if you found a sleeping
pig? Write a story.
Planning Your Story
• Read more about
farms, pigs, and other
Planning Your Story
• Start your
story with an
• Provide children with nonfiction materials about farms and
interesting
beginning.
animals.
• Use a story map to
plan your story.
• Think of what
•
you would do.
Writing Your Story
• Follow your story map to write your story.
•
Write the story using the word “I.”
animals.
Review with children the story map the class filled out for the
anthology selection.
Work with children to fill in the story map for their own story.
Sharing Your Story
• Read your story aloud to a partner.
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• Make pictures if you want.
Children continue to work on this project.
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Writing Your Story
• Tell children to begin their story with a sentence that gets the
Expected Outcome
•
A good story will
✔ be interesting and make
•
✔ move from beginning to
•
sense
middle to end
✔ include all five parts of a
reader interested.
Have children introduce the setting and characters first, then the
problem, and then the events. The solution comes at the end.
Tell them to use the word “I” so that it sounds like the story
happened to them.
Remind children that pictures can help the reader understand
the story.
story
Children continue to work on this project.
Sharing Your Story
• Help children bind their stories into individual books.
• Allow each child to decide how best to share his or her story.
Children may wish to read their stories aloud to a small group,
compare stories with a classmate, do a picture walk, or display
their stories for others to read.
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2.
More About Animals
60 MINUTES
INDIVIDUAL
Materials: nonfiction books or articles about animals, index cards
Expected Outcome
Goal: Draw a picture of an animal with information
about it.
A good informational picture
will include
✔ an accurate, detailed
• Provide children with nonfiction materials about different kinds
•
3.
of animals.
Have children write four facts about the animal they picked on
four index cards.
An Animal Story
60 MINUTES
drawing of an animal
✔ four facts about that
animal
INDIVIDUAL
Materials: Just a Little Bit by Ann Tompert or other books with
animals as main characters, Graphic Organizer Master 3
Expected Outcome
Goal: Write an animal story.
A good animal story will
include
Help children select two animal characters from two different
stories to co-star in their original tale. Be sure children map out
the problem, events, and solution before they begin to write.
✔ recognizable characters
from other animal stories
✔ sensible organization of
story elements
Additional Independent Work
Connecting/Comparing Literature
Have children compare the On My Way Practice Reader Fox and
Mule with the anthology selection The Sleeping Pig, using what
they have learned about Story Structure. Children may discuss or
write about their comparisons.
Challenge Master CH 6–2
THEME 6/Week 1
Name
2. More About Animals
Learn about an animal.
• Pick an animal.
Other Activities
• Read a book or article
about that animal.
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The Sleeping Pig
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The Sleeping Pig
that interest
you.
Draw a picture
of the animal.
Write its name by the picture.
Write four true things about the animal.
3. An Animal Story
Write an animal
story.
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Challenge
• Write facts
• Use a story
map to plan
• Pick two stories you
your story
have read or heard
before you
that have animals as
write it.
characters.
• Pick one animal from each story.
Write a story that includes both
characters.
Grade 1 Theme 6: Animal Adventures
Challenge Master CH 6–2
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WEEK 2
1.
Catching a Mouse
120 MINUTES
INDIVIDUAL
Materials: books and articles about mice, drawing paper, markers
or crayons
Challenge Master CH 6–3
Goal: Invent a mousetrap that catches mice without
hurting them.
THEME 6/Week 2
Name
1. Catching a Mouse
Invent your own mousetrap.
Learning About Mice
• Read books and
articles about mice.
Learning About Mice
• What do mice
• Provide books with factual information about mice, such as
like to eat?
• Make a list of facts
about mice.
Making a Mousetrap
• Plan a mousetrap that will not hurt the
•
mouse.
Mice by Kevin J. Holmes, Of Mice and Rats by Allan Fowler, and
It’s a Mouse! by D. M. Souza.
Tell children to make notes about mice on a chart or web.
Draw and label your trap.
Sharing the Traps
Have a mousetrap show. Hang your drawing
on the wall.
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Write how your trap will work.
Children continue to work on this project.
Making a Mousetrap
• Tell children to use what they learned about mice to invent a
Expected Outcome
A good mousetrap will
include
•
•
mousetrap.
Have them draw a picture of their trap with labels and an
explanation of how it works.
Be sure children understand that their trap designs should be
creative yet practical.
✔ factual information about
mice
✔ a clear explanation of
how and why the trap will
work
Children continue to work on this project.
Sharing the Traps
Hang children’s drawings together under a sign that says Mousetrap
Show. Provide time for each child to describe his or her invention
and explain how and why it works.
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2.
Spider Stories
60 MINUTES
INDIVIDUAL
Materials: books with spiders as main characters
Expected Outcome
Goal: Compare Anansi with a spider from
another story.
A good answer to the
comparison question will
include
Provide children with books like Little Miss Spider at Sunnypatch
School by David Kirk, Be Nice to Spiders by Margaret Bloy Graham,
and The Lady and the Spider by Faith McNulty. Be sure the books
you provide are not Anansi books. Help children create and fill in
their Venn diagrams.
3.
Fishing Bears
60 MINUTES
✔ details about two spider
characters
✔ a comparison of the two
characters
INDIVIDUAL
(Challenge Theme Paperback)
Expected Outcome
Materials: Graphic Organizer Master 5, books or articles about
bears such as Brown Bears by Lynn M. Stone, Bears: Life in the Wild by
Monica Kulling, and A Polar Bear Journey by Debbie S. Miller
A good K-W-L chart will
include
✔ what the child originally
Goal: Complete a K-W-L chart to learn more
about bears.
knew
✔ what the child wanted to
find out
Help children complete K-W-L charts to access their prior
knowledge about bears and set reading purposes. After they have
read the book, point out that writing what they learned will help
them remember it. Tell them to note facts that answer their
questions on the third column of their K-W-L chart.
✔ what the child learned
about bears
Challenge Master CH 6–4
THEME 6/Week 2
Additional Independent Work
Name
2. Spider Stories
Connecting/Comparing Literature
Compare Anansi with
another spider.
Have children compare the On My Way Practice Reader What
Animal Is It? with the anthology selection EEK! There’s a Mouse
in the House, using what they have learned about Noting Details.
Children may discuss or write about their comparisons.
• Read Tiger and Anansi
again.
• Put each detail
in the correct
part of the
diagram.
• Now read a story
about another spider.
• Is the spider in the other story like Anansi?
Make a Venn diagram to show how they are
alike and different.
Other Activities
Make a chart about
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There’s a Mouse in the House
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There’s a Mouse in the House
bears.
• Fill in all three
parts of the
• Think about what you
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Fishing Bears
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• TE pp. R17, R23, R29,
Challenge
3. Fishing Bears
chart.
already know about
bears.
• Think of some questions you have about bears.
• Read to find answers to your questions.
Write what you learned.
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Challenge Master CH 6–4
WEEK 2
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WEEK 3
1.
A Day in the Rainforest
120 MINUTES
INDIVIDUAL
Materials: drawing paper, crayons or markers, stapler
Challenge Master CH 6–5
Goal: Write a book about a rainforest animal.
THEME 6/Week 3
Name
1. A Day in the Rainforest
Write a book about a rainforest
Learning About a Rainforest Animal
animal.
Provide a collection of books about rainforest animals. Possible
titles include Rainforest Birds by Bobbie Kalman, Animals
of the Rain Forest by Steven Savage, and Rainforest Babies by
Kathy Darling.
Learning About a Rainforest Animal
• Find books about
rainforest animals.
• Pick one animal to
• Make sure
study.
your book tells
about your
• Read about the animal
animal.
and take notes using a
• Have each child choose one animal to focus on.
• Help children use a web to take notes. Tell them to place the
web.
Writing Your Book
• Tell one fact on each page.
Draw a picture for each fact.
• Put the pages together to make a book.
Sharing Your Book
• Share your book with others.
CH 6–5 Challenge Master
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• Use your notes to write about the animal.
•
name of their animal in the middle. Have them put their notes
in the circles around the center.
Tell children that their notes can be words or pictures.
Grade 1 Theme 6: Animal Adventures
Children continue to work on this project.
Expected Outcome
Writing Your Book
A good rainforest animal
book will include
• Tell children to begin with a sentence that tells what animal they
✔
✔ detailed drawings that
•
facts about an animal
illustrate the text
•
will describe.
Have them write each fact from their web on a separate sheet
of paper.
Tell children to illustrate each fact on the same page where they
wrote it.
Children continue to work on this project.
Sharing Your Book
• Have children make a cover with a picture of their animal and
•
•
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the title of the book.
Bind the cover and pages of their book together with a stapler.
Allow children to share their books with the class in the way that
they like. Encourage children to look at all of the books made by
their classmates.
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2.
Rainforest Poem
60 MINUTES
INDIVIDUAL
Materials: art paper, paste
Expected Outcome
Goal: Write a poem about the rainforest.
A good poem will include
Help children recall the images in Life in a Rainforest. Have them
read Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolen or a similar book
to get further impressions of rainforests. Compile on chart paper a
rainforest word list for children to use when they write their poems.
Encourage children to include plant, animal, color, and sensory
words on the list. Tell children that their poems should not rhyme,
but they should sound interesting or beautiful.
3.
What Will It Say?
60 MINUTES
✔ animals, plants, colors,
and feelings about the
rainforest
✔ interesting word choices
INDIVIDUAL
Expected Outcome
Materials: books about specific animals
Good predictions will include
Goal: Make predictions about a book.
✔ evidence that the child
Provide books that tell about specific kinds of animals, not limited
to the rainforest.
used the title, cover
illustration, and prior
knowledge as clues
Have children review the predictions they made for Red-Eyed Tree
Frog before making predictions about their new book. Remind
children that sometimes they predict what will happen next in a
story. Tell them they can also use clues to predict what kind of
facts they will learn in a book.
✔ specific details
Challenge Master CH 6–6
THEME 6/Week 3
Additional Independent Work
Name
2. Rainforest Poem
Connecting/Comparing Literature
Rainforests are special
places.
Have children compare the On My Way Practice Reader The Real
Wolf with the anthology selection Red-Eyed Tree Frog, using what
they have learned about Making Predictions. Children may discuss
or write about their comparisons.
• Use words that
tell how it feels
• Read the rainforest
word list.
to be in the
rainforest.
• Choose a few words
you like.
Write a poem based on the words.
3. What Will It Say?
Make predictions about
Other Activities
an animal book.
• Pick a book about one
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Challenge
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Red-Eyed Tree Frog
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Red-Eyed Tree Frog
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kind of animal.
Write some
• What clues are
in the title and
cover?
predictions about what
you think the book will tell you.
• Read the book.
Write whether your predictions
were true.
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Challenge Master CH 6–6
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