Chickens - Little Red Hen - Chicken Little - first grade - second grade

This chicken unit is packed full of fun and engaging activities for your students.

This unit includes the life cycle of a chicken activities and facts on chickens along with two plays featuring The Little Red Hen and Chicken Little.

ELA ACTIVITIES

Little Red Hen and Chicken Little Plays

A 5 part play featuring the Little Red Hen story.

A 7 part Chicken Little play.

Included are necklaces or props of each character. Simply add a craft stick to the back of the characters and they will be all ready for your students to put on a great show.

These plays are just right for first and second graders to read.

Keep them in a center or use for guided reading instruction with an emphasis on fluency and expression.

Other activities to go with Little Red Hen and Chicken Little include:

-Sequencing the story, students cut sentences apart and put together in the right sequence, these makes a great little booklet.

-In my opinion writing activity and lesson learned activity to go with The Little Red Hen story.

-Story elements sheet, where they tell what happened first, next, then and finally and then the ending for the Little Red Hen story.

-Story elements sheet for Chicken Little where students will explain what happened at the beginning, middle and end.

-A great recall activity to go along with the book Plot Chickens by Mary Jane and Herm Auch

ALL ABOUT CHICKEN ACTIVITIES

-Life Cycle of Chickens Booklet where students can read, and use the booklet to help them write about chickens.

-18 chicken vocabulary words ready to be displayed in a pocket chart for reference and vocabulary instruction. Use before or after reading the All About Chicken Booklet.

-Oviparous activity

-The Life cycle of a chicken poster in color and black and white and writing activity included.

-Compare and contrast penguins and chickens

A pocket chart activity. This lesson is great to do to teach students how things are alike and different. A compare and contrast page for students to do on their own comparing penguins and chickens.

-A graphic organizer to write information that they learned about chickens. Final draft paper where students use to write about chickens Students can also use the fun poetry page called Facts about Chickens to write their facts on.

-A chicken art project where students can create and then display their written work with their chickens that they make.

Letters that spell out EGGSTRAORDINARY CHICKENS to be used on the top of a bulletin board to showcase the chickens the students made along with their writings.

Have fun and happy teaching! Jane