Students will be learning about the history of popcorn, preferably in the fall as october is national popcorn poppin month. Other lesson plans in the national agricultural literacy curriculum matrix may be used as. Lesson plan from kids econ posters created by kids econ posters view on kids econ posters share. Lesson plans for prek and k by tania cowling teaching grades prek to 5. There are songs, art projects and more to keep your little ones busy. Book suggestions for the library i love amazon, and if you choose to get yours there, they do send. Lesson plans individual, guided reading books, literature circles. Lesson title popping adjectives date grade 2 english. Im a fourth grade teacher and we did a stem project where we had to make a popcorn container. Many thanks to those who have shared your wonderful ideas.
Guided reading lesson the popcorn book by tomie depaola by. The popcorn book by tomie depaola and exploring popcorn by teach preschool fun song about popcorn put popped or unpopped popcorn in a sensory table. The stations are designed to be taught by grade 4 students. Was there popcorn in plimoth when the indians and pilgrims shared their first thanksgiving meal. Try some of the ideas in my popcorn lesson plan theme. Read aloud up to page 21, stopping before the explanation of what makes popcorn pop. Hundreds to thousands of years ago, popcorn was used as a gift.
Popcorn provides a fun and tasty way for learning a variety of math concepts, including estimation and bar graphs. Encourage them to crouch down as low as they can, and to pop up as high as they can. Lessons plans interdisciplinary lesson plans a day full of popcorn lesson plan. A day full of popcorn lesson plan educators reference desk. Popcorn is a classic snack and children love hearing it and watching it poppoppop. Here are some ideas for those of you who use frank asch books in the classroom or homeschool environment. The popcorn book by tomie depaola with images sight words. The popcorn book by tomie depaola bright hub education. Many of the ideas could be used with a spring theme, too.
Amy, kindergarten teacher learn about things that start with the letter p and grow a popcorn plant from a kernel. By focusing on this popular snack, projects can be fun as well as educational. The game will require that the students continually practice a selected r plan your 60. Brothers tiny and tony are hungry for a snack, and their mother allows them to make some popcorn. The popcorn program offers a variety of study tips tailored to fit the needs of your students and curriculum. Ask, is what we will read today probably a story or probably information. They illustrate the story events and enjoy the popcorn snack. Includes tips for before, during, and after readingplus an extension activity.
Guided reading lesson the popcorn book by tomie depaola. It features a collection of lesson plans, historical information, and activities ideally suited for crosscurriculum study units on popcorn, or to fit into your existing lesson plan. This lesson is designed for a heterogeneous tutorial group of four secondgrade students. Christopher columbus saw indians wearing popcorn as jewelry. This informational book study contains the following components. Students retell story events on a lunch bag filled with popcorn. Watching movie and tv sports activities the native american indians. Free printable, tomie depaola, the popcorn book, tomie depaola books. The popcorn book printables, classroom activities, teacher. Today the students will play a game called popcorn.
Popcorn is at the base of all the lesson plans youll find here and many of these lesson plans require popped popcorn. It contains a lot of wonderful preschool popcorn projects for your children to enjoy. Those are just a few of the questions this weeks lesson plans will answer. You can also create your own word search, criss cross or memory match puzzle using our. The popcorn book lesson students in grades k3 read and use tomie depaolas the popcorn book to study corn and complete math and language arts activities. Youngsters will love stringing together popcorn necklaces and learning about popcorn.
Immediately download the popcorn summary, chapterbychapter analysis, book notes, essays, quotes, character descriptions, lesson plans, and more everything you need for studying or teaching popcorn. So get with the program and make learning about popcorn part of your future lesson plans. Using this favorite snack food, popcorn, is an excellent way to tool to teach this childrens bible object lesson. This engaging play, based on a favorite primary theme, will delight and motivate emergent readers.
Over a two day period, read two corn books to your students to complete their study of corn. Students will make popcorn while creating hypotheses on how corn can be impacted by changing the process, and. The links to individual lesson plans are also included below. The lesson teaches students how to connect text to self, using the book the popcorn. It recently made me smile to revisit one of my favorite books from childhood. Jun 2, 20 welcome back to the virtual book club for kids. Guided reading lesson plans for the popcorn book by tomie depaola.
This lesson investigates the phenomenon of popcorn popping. The popcorn book probably represents my first forray into foodthemed literature. This month the vbc is featuring books by one of my favorite authors, tomie depaola. The popcorn book by tomie depaola with images sight. Reading lesson using the popcorn book by tomie depaola. Lesson plans for phonics word families and making a picture graph are also included. Includes all of your favorite preschool popcorn related songs art. Look through text for 1 minute and decide what kind of text it will be and how they know. Can you hear the sound popcorn makes when its being made. These lesson plans are the result of the work of the teachers who. Preschool popcorn theme ideas for your library and literacy activities for your preschool classroom. Encourage your students to activate their prior knowledge with this lesson plan on the popcorn book. Prek and kindergarten friendship and sharing lesson plan based on the popcorn dragon lesson plans for prek and k by tania cowling teaching grades prek to 5 dexter the dragon is a bit of a show. Then watch as children pop inside the circle like real popcorn.
Prek and kindergarten friendship and sharing lesson plan based on the popcorn dragon. In this lesson, students make connections to themselves, their knowledge, and their experiences and help complete a kwl chart as the book is read aloud. This popcorn book report lesson plan is suitable for 1st 3rd grade. Prek and kindergarten friendship and sharing lesson plan. At the bottom of the page, you will find books that you can order directly from. The two boys learn about the history of popcorn in the americas, how much popcorn is eaten on an annual basis, and methods of popping corn. The bloggers of the virtual book club are celebrating the works of tomie depaola this month and so my class has been reading a few of his books including our most recently read book titled, the popcorn. The popcorn book lesson plan for kindergarten 5th grade. Use this lesson plan to teach your students about experiments and making hypotheses. This lesson is designed to teach primary students how to activate prior knowledge before they begin reading. The popcorn pirates book, teaching resource, story, card.
Large activity tray plans planning webs activity planning and continuous provision ideas maths mastery eyfs adult input plans. A popcorn seed is hard and tasteless, like us, until god turns the heat on it. A complete guided reading lesson with pre reading and extension activity to use with the book the popcorn book which is commonly found in guided reading sets. Popcorn science students in grades k12 perform five simple experiments to demonstrate what makes popcorn pop. More activities can be found on bright hub education in the popcorn book lesson.
There is a lesson plan library designed specifically for educators. You can also make your own microwave popcorn by tossing 12 cup of popcorn kernels with 12 teaspoon vegetable oil and salt, then dumping the popcorn. This lesson develops those concepts, and the results can be eaten when youre done. Use a printable that contains several activity plans involving popcorn and math, and art and science. A blog about teaching ideas and free resources, focusing on kindergarten, first. We offer many activity ideas for supporting books of this type here. You may find it easier to engage your students with this yummy, fun, and wholesome. This product goes along with the book the popcorn book, by tomie depaola. Heres some ideas for using tomie depaolas the popcorn book to learn lots of facts about the fabulous food. Popcorn thematic units, lesson plans and teacher resources. A day full of popcorn lesson plan lesson plans for educators. Popcorn summary study guides, essays, lesson plans. Activity guide from librarysparks created by librarysparks view the pdf share.
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