Circle Story FUN {and freebies}

This week the main story in our reading series is If You Give A Pig A Pancake by Laura Numeroff.

We have been patiently waiting to get to this story for quite a while because last year we went ALL out and created an entire weeks worth of center activities and writing activities that went along with this story, as well as all of Laura Numeroff’s other circle stories.  We combined them into one big unit and it is available to purchase in our TpT store.

We are planning to do the same thing again this year.  Instead of moving on to a new theme the week before Spring Break, we are going to take the week off and have some circle story FUN with our kiddos!!!

Here’s a {sneak} peek at all of the math and literacy centers we will be doing.

We will also be doing these writing activities . . .

Our final project of the week will be to have our kiddos create a circle story of their own. They will use a graphic organizer to plan their story and then write it by modeling it after the format of the ones we had read throughout the week.  We are always amazed by their creativity!!!

This year we also made a set of circle story themed Word of the Day worksheets and posters that we can use and display throughout the week.

 

to download a copy of them click {here}

We’ve also got a complimentary copy of one of the creative writing activities from our unit to share with you.  It was originally created to use with our first graders, but we’ve added some additional pages to the end of it in case you teach a different grade.  You can just have your students fill in the space with the appropriate grade level.

click {here} to download a copy

We’ve received several requests about some other activities that were featured on our class blogs during our circle story week last year.  Unfortunately we don’t have the rights to share all of them with you.  One of them was created by another teacher on our team and the rest are all worksheets that we have acquired over the years from resources like Teacher’s Helper.