Our second Row was Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. It is a cute book about a peddler who has to trick some monkeys into giving back his hats. We also read the companion books by the same author - More Caps for Sale and Circus Caps for Sale.
I found this cute rhyme and made a mini pocket chart for it last summer when I thought that I was going to homeschool Kaleb this school year. You may download my printable at the bottom of the post. Kaleb had to match the color word with the hat. We focused on beginning sounds.
The letter that we were working on was the letter U. Kaleb worked on a habitat sort for Under the Sea. I found this at Target.
Kaleb and I discussed more U words and he glued them to the letter.
While we were working on Caps for Sale, he decided to balance his dog on his head like the peddler. Not a hat but close.
He colored some hats for a paint stick craft. I asked him politely to color each hat a different color. Right now, his favorite color is blue so they probably would have ended up all blue.
He worked on some monkey actions....just like in the book.
I made a mini alphabet review game. I programmed small cups with letter stickers. Using three cups, I hid the monkey under one and scrambled them up. He had to find the monkey and tell me what letter the money was hiding under. I only made cups for the rest of the alphabet that we will be working on.
I finally was able to put up my magnetic oil pan. We have played with this a lot. I placed the letter cards using sticky tack on the board and had Kaleb sort the magnetic letters.
Here is another printable that I created for the unit. Caps for Sale was supposed to be early in our school year and I had planned on working with numbers 1 through 5. He had to place the missing numbers on the chart.
We discussed money and he made a money book. He matched the money to each page.
After that, Kaleb graphed the money. He threw the die and placed a coin when it came up. I used this to get him acquainted with each coin name.
He worked on beginning wounds all week. Here he is working with clip cards that I also found at Target.
J helped me put these together. We made the peddler and a few monkeys along with some hats. J painted them for me. We used these to act our the story. We were always missing one monkey though because Riley took a shine to it:) This idea came from Wee Folk Art (link below).
Kaleb practiced the letters T and U as well as his name. He used a wet paintbrush to trace them on the chalk board.
We discuseed different types of monkeys and mapped several of them around the world. We watched some clips of each monkey on youtube.
I found some animal magnets and had him place the beginning sound/letter under each one. We worked on each animal.
Kaleb counted the hats on the peddler in the story More Caps for Sale.
Lastly, he made his own peddler mustache which, of course, he colored blue - his favorite color. All of these items went into his Caps for Sale notebook.
Here's our peddler with a variety of hats. He turned out pretty cute if I say so myself. Our next Row is going to be The Little Rabbit. See you soon.
I hope you enjoy the mini unit that I created. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Links
Wee Folk Art - has the instructions on how to make the peddler and the monkeys peg people to act out the story.
Story time Secrets - has a few printables as well as some good ideas to enjoy the book. I love the Monkey see, Monkey do game.
First Palette - has a few free hat printables so you can make your own hats for the peddler.
Hubbard's Cupboard - has some good ideas for extending the book.
Love this!
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