Tall, Tall Grass

Today was all about introducing the story "In the Tall, Tall Grass" by Denise Fleming.

Language Goals

Expressive Language: spontaneous language

Receptive Language: Learn new vocabulary words (the animals in the story)

To open the lesson, I set out the book and we talked about all the things we saw on the cover. I went around the table asking each student to find and name something on the cover. If the item had already been named, the student had to pick a new item (VERY difficult for the little kiddos!). Then of course we read the story. We had the most fun acting out each of the animals as we went. At the end, I had pictures of each of the animals and we reviewed the animals in sequence of the story. 

Here are the pictures I used for this activity.

 

CENTERS

Cut tall, tall grass to be used for tomorrow's language lesson. We used a few different shades of green. Once the kiddos were done cutting, I had them crinkle the strips to make it more realistic.