End of the year: A House For Hermit Crab, revisited and revised

Revised On April 20. 2016

We added a few pages--a framed book, questions, and some other activities

A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle

*Is a perfect book for helping with transitions and

*Celebrating the end of the school year!

Eric Carle is fond of this book because it shows “young readers that new experiences are not to be dreaded.”

We created this unit for kiddos

*To learn about hermit crabs

*To have fun activities for the last week of school

*To celebrate the end of the year

Included in this last week of school unit is:

*Informational Close – Hermit Crab

-WOW words

-Questions (text-based and BIG questions)

-A variety of writing formats

-Hermit crab facts: kiddo take-home version

*Literature Close – A House for Hermit Crab, Eric Carle

-WOW words

-Questions (text-based and BIG questions)

-A variety of writing formats

-Retell Wheel

*Shared Reading, Hermit Crabs New Home

-Emergent reader

-Take-home version

*Hermit Crab songs

*Hermit Crab craft

*Literacy

-Roll, Read, Trace and Write (sight words)

-Spin and Color (short vowels)

*Math

-Graph: I need a new home

-Spin, Add and Color

*Kiddos Connect Summer Fun

*Kindergarten Memories book

*Hermit Crab Scavenger Hunt

*Shared song, Make New Friends

-Emergent reader

-Take-home version

*Last Day of School IDEAS

*Revisited and revised:

• Label the Hermit Crab
• Roll and read a sentence
• Roll and write a sentence
• Measure with Hermit Crab
• Where is Hermit Crab? (pocket chart, ABC/abc/sounds/numbers 1-25)
• Hermit Crab letter sound game
• Help Hermit Crab get to a shell game (sight words)
• Hermit Crab and Shells game (counting)
• Grow and shrink game
• Brain Ticklers
• ABC/123 Grid (reading a grid)
• Shared Reading with kiddo take-home book
• -Hermit Crab’s New Home
• -Hermit Crab, Hermit Crab, Who Do You See?

Thank you very much,

Kiddos Connect -

Janice Marshall and Ann Rainwater