Make sure you always have a mixture of fiction and non-fiction on your bookshelf. I did some classics by Eric Carle and nursery rhymes, as well as amazing non-fiction books. My bookcase is filled with books all about Nocturnal Animals, but I will share that I had a hard time finding quality books for this theme. The same game can be played at different levels. In the build section, for example, you can have the students build sight words or their names. Sneaking letters into classic activities is how I teach WITHOUT using letter of the week.īat Read, Write, and Build can be easily differentiated.

Students use tweezers to rescue the spiders and letters. Place spider rings and letter manipulatives like these letter beads at the bottom of the basket. Spider and Letter Rescue is a classic fine motor activity with a literacy twist! Take a small basket and weave a string in and out in various directions to create a web. Having all letters matches out at once can be very overwhelming and frustrating for littles. One trick I use all the time is only to put half or fewer of the alphabet out when playing this game with my pre-k and three-year-old friends. I found the star beads at Michaels and the Dollar Tree, aka my favorite place.įeed the raccoon and hedgehog matching letters (uppercase with uppercase or uppercase with lowercase). Make handwriting and letter formation FUN by building it with nighttime letter cards, star beads, and a dry-erase marker. As an alternative, you could also put numbers or sight words on the web instead of letters. What a super simple prep! Then students matched the uppercase and lowercase letter tiles to the letters on the web. Then I wrote letters all over it with a black marker. Giant web letter match! I made the web on a big piece of butcher paper with black masking tape. If your students are struggling with stickers, remove the outside background part leaving just the stickers on the sheet. Then once they use a small square of stickers, they typically draw on their paper. Spice up the writing table with nocturnal animal writing paper, word cards, and star stickers! My trick to making stickers last longer with little learners is to cut the sticker sheets into small pieces. > Grab all of my Noctural Animals Math and Literacy Centers HERE >Grab the FREEBIE by entering your email in the box at the bottom of this blog post!<< Grab your lesson planner because I’m sharing tons of FUN, hands-on activities you can do for a nocturnal animals theme (and a FREEBIE too)! It’s also the perfect theme to do if you are not permitted to do a Halloween theme at your school. Investigate animals that come out at night that students likely see in their daily lives. Nocturnal animals is an exciting and engaging theme you can do in your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classroom.

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