Elementary Library

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Pencils Colored Pencils, markers, or crayons Kindergarten Research Packet Books about animals and plants ○​ Hooray for Birds by Lucy Cousins ○​ Hello Hello by Brendan Wenzel ○​ Borrowing Bunnies: A Surprising True Tale of Fostering Rabbits by Cynthia Lord ○​ Destiny Finds Her Way: How a Rescued Baby Sloth Learned to Be Wild by Margarita Engle ○​ If You Hold A Seed by Elly McKay ○​ How Do Plants Grow? By Julie K. Lundgren ○​ Plant the Tiny Seed by Christie Matheson ○​ Muncha, Muncha, Muncha by Candace Fleming ○​ Bark, George by Jules Feiffer ○​ Series: Baby Animals in the Wild (Bullfrog Books) by Katie Chanez ○​ Series: Animal Habitats by Julie Murray

Pencils Colored Pencils, markers, or crayons Grade 1 Research Packet Any books about baby animals and their parents ○​ Play in the Wild: How Baby Animals Like to Have Fun by Lita Judge ○​ Born in the Wild: Baby Mammals and their Parents by Lita Judge ○​ Smitten with Kittens by Florence Minor ○​ Joey: A Baby Koala & His Mother by Nic Bishop ○​ Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? By Eric Carle ○​ Stellaluna by Janell Cannon ○​ Series: Baby Animals in the Wild (Bullfrog Books) by Katie Chanez ○​ Series: Adorable Animals

Pencils Colored Pencils, markers, or crayons Grade 2 Research Packet Any books about animals in habitats ○​ Series: Animal Habitats by Julie Murray ○​ Series: Biomes of North America ○​ Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman ○​ I’m a Hare, So There by Julie Rowan-Zoch ○​ The Night Flower by Lara Hawthorne ○​ Polar Bear by Candace Fleming ○​ Evergreen by Matthew Cordell ○​ Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris

Resources

Week 4

Direct Instruction

Introduce the big question. Ask students to listen closely for evidence that will help us find the answer.

Introduce the big question. Do not define habitat. Ask students to pay attention to the read aloud to figure out what a habitat is.

Read Hooray for Birds or Hello Hello

Invite students to guess what we are learning about…animals! Ask big

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