Ten on a Sled

We have put Before Five in a Row on hold and are working on some book units for the holiday season. This week's book unit was Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman. It is a super cute book about animals that go for a sled ride and keep "falling" off. We also read the companion book - If You are Cold and You Know It by the same author.

Kaleb worked on "friends of ten" - all the addends the add up to ten. We used Christmas erasers and a sled ten frame. I placed the red candies on the ten frame and he had to find the other friend of ten. He then wrote the problem on his min whiteboard.

The Science for this book was to learn about caribou. He labeled the caribou diagram and he insisted on writing the labels himself. Yay!

I found some animals that matched the characters of the book and a sled from a Playmobil set. Kaleb set the animals in the sled and as I read the story, he pulled each animal from the sled.

This is the carnage of animals that were removed from the sled. I loved watching Kaleb "explode" the animals from the sled.

Another day of exploding animals - looks pretty gruesome, doesn't it? He had fun though:)

I found some pattern cards for snowflakes. I gave him the shapes and he recreated the picture.

We worked on "ed" and "en" words with word tiles. After he was done practicing with the word tiles, he stamped the words with alphabet stamps.

Kaleb worked on filling out a learning chart on caribous which he wrote himself. We read all about caribous and wrote down some facts. We definitely had fun with this book. Hope you have an awesome day.

Links

Real Life at Home - has a cute idea for a walrus craft.

Creativity Takes Flight - has the walrus craft instructions.

Reading Confetti - has a cute idea using plastic eggs.

Snippets by Sarah - has a cute craft using your student's picture, free download.

The Recovering Traditionalist - has free printable ten frames.

Tidbits Cami - has a popsicle sled craft.

Tales of a Teacherista - has a few ideas for learning about caribou.

Learn Create Love - has a free printable caribou template.

I Heart Crafty Things - has a cute reindeer sponge painting activity.