Piggybacks for Teachers

General Activities

Make a large beehive for the bulletin board.

As students read one of Jan Brett's books, give them a tag with a bee drawing on it.   Write the name of the book and the students name on the tag and pin it to the beehive.

Prereading or writing

  Make up a story about animals or people that are riding in a wagon and get stuck in the mud.   How will they get out?

Social studies

  Research Bavaria then come back to Berlioz and find the evidence of that region.

  Learn the names of the animals in German.
die B�ren (dee bar-en) the bears.
die Biene (dee beene) the bee.
der Esel (derr ay-zel) the donkey.
der Hahn (derr han) the rooster
die Katze (dee kaht-sah) the cat.
das Hund (dass hoont) the dog
die Ziege (dee zee-gah) the goat
das Pferd (dass faired) the horse
der Ochse (derr ok-sah) the ox.

Language activities

Journal the activities going on in the border.

Make a list of the verbs.

Sequence - Reader's Theater

Tell story in sequence.

Make masks out of grocery bags.

Music

Learn about the musical instruments.

Listen to Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov

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