Tops and Bottoms

 

Tops & Bottoms

Day One: Activating Prior Knowledge, Building Knowledge (making connections, oral language focus)

• Have you ever played a trick on someone? (have conversation/discussion)

Day Two: Five Finger Retell

Day Three: Vocabulary Development

• harvest
• fair/unfair
• trick
• top, bottom, middle

Day Four: Higher Order Questioning (asking, discussing, reflecting - between the line questions)

• How might bear be feeling at the beginning of the story?
• And how did this change in the middle and end?
• Was it right to trick bear? (moral)

Extensions for Learning Centres or Opportunities to Engage with Writing:

• Plant a garden outside/inside
• classifying/sorting different vegetables
• investigate different seeds 
• obstacle course: using directional language (top, middle, bottom)