What started as a mini project to help me power through the first week of ESY ended up evolving into a huge project, and I’m loving every second of it!
If you have been hanging around my Facebook or Instagram then you know about my thematic packs and everything that is included! If you are not familiar, look below for an idea of what you get! The theme featured in this blog is the zoo theme, but a huge variety of themes is available in my store as well!
The first set I wanted to show you were the adapted materials. These are for my lower students who are still working on a lot of pre-academic skills. The adapted materials include an adapted book, a tracing book and task boxes. These are perfect for my friends who are using a lot of adapted materials.
The bulk of the reading and language arts work is leveled into 3 levels. You get 3 levels of emergent readers and 3 levels of a weekly journal book. Look below for an idea of what each level is for the reading and writing:
- Level A: The emergent reader names the vocabulary for the week. The journal has sentence frameworks for students to copy, to get used to writing descriptive sentences.
- Level B: The emergent reader includes the color of the item (I.e. the tiger is orange) in additional to the vocabulary words. The journal provides the topic and some facts, but the students need to create their own sentence using the content given.
- Level C: The emergent reader includes a fact in addition to the vocabulary word. The journal provides just a topic, and allows students to generate their own ideas about the topic.
There are also 3 levels of comprehension worksheets, with differentiation built into each level. Although I have leveled them according to the emergent readers, feel free to mix and match. For one of my students, his best match was 3 worksheets from level B and 2 from level C. It is totally customizable, do what works for you!
You also get 3 sets of sight word packs and an alphabet pack to add to a work work center. The sight words and letters are rotated through the different packs, but it will always be 6 different words or 6 different letters featured in one pack.
The math portion of this pack has a huge range of skills, because my classroom has a huge range of skills! In this pack you get addition, subtraction, multiplication and division worksheets. You also get telling time, 3 levels of graphing worksheets, basic number sense, patterning and a money board.
The visual directions are perfect for whole group activities. A scientific experiment, an edible recipe, a sensory recipe and a craft are always included.
Additional materials include a set of gross motor movement cards, suggested supplemental books, songs and apps and 10 bingo boards!
I realize that this pack might be overwhelming when you first open it, which is why I created a suggested weekly lay out. You, by no means, need to follow this. Maybe your kids are not ready for telling time! Maybe you want to do the craft over two days! Maybe you want to play bingo every day. Whatever works with your class, go for it. This is just to give you an idea of how to use the pack.
This weekly guide will be included in all of the units. Click here to go to the bundle on TPT. Each theme is listed within this page, or grab the whole bundle to get you through the tough spots of the year!