Materials
This list gives you an overview of all the materials you will need throughout this 2-week unit, except for the materials used in the Learning Centers. (Those are indicated with each Learning Center.) Note that you will also find a list of specific materials needed for each week at the beginning of that week.
- ball (small)
- "Being A Good Friend" chart (from Week 1)
- Between the Lions alphabet chart
- Between the Lions lion family picture
- blocks
- books about families (humans and animals); owls (nonfiction); various genre
- chart paper
- clipboard
- construction paper
- craft sticks or heavy paper strips
- crayons, markers
- dipping cups
- drawing paper or paper plates
- fabric swatches and felt squares
- glue
- googly eyes
- grouping objects (small toys, blocks, other small objects, etc.)
- juice box
- letter cards
- library items (magazine, CD, cookbooks, newspapers, etc.)
- magazine pictures: families; cats; friends; facial expressions
- name cards (2 sets, decorated)
- name tags
- objects (various sizes, shape, color, for sorting)
- owl pictures (in their environment; 3 single laminated)
- personal photographs (families and friends)
- picture cards (simple objects)
- plastic cups (various sizes)
- plastic letters
- pom poms (various sizes) (or cubes)
- poster board cut outs in the shape of a cat (x 4) (large); chick, tree
- sand
- scissors
- sorting objects (e.g., beads, blocks, beans, cotton balls, buttons, packing peanuts; different sizes, shapes, and colors)
- stamps
- stapler
- stickers
- stuffed bunny (small) (or bean bag)
- tape
- toothpicks
- "Up, Up, Up" poem chart
- upper/lowercase letters (1 set each)
- yarn or ribbon
Books
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and Bill Archambault
Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems
Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
What is a Scientist? by Barbara Lehn
Videos
“At the Library (A–Z)” (BTL show) (0:02:14)
“But, Mama, But…” (BTL show) (0:05:57)
“Cat Categories” (PEEP clip) (0:01:28)
“I Love My Family” (BTL clip) (0:00:19)
“Look It Up” (BTL clip) (0:01:34)
“Read a Book Today!” (BTL clip) (0:01:03)
“That’s a Cat” (PEEP show) (0:08:45)
“Upper and Lowercase” (BTL clip) (0:01:10)
Songs
“A-Hunting We Will Go” (letter version)
“A-Hunting We Will Go” (library version)
“Friend of Mine”
“Friends at School”
“Here We Are Together“
“If You’re Happy and You Know It”
“Read, Read, Read a Book”
“This Is the Way We Hold Our Books”
“Three Owl Babies”
“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
“What Makes Me a Good Friend”
“Where Is?”
Poems and Chants
“I Have a New Friend”
“Up, Up, Up”
“Who Is In Our Classroom?”
Interactive Game
“ABCD Watermelon” (BTL)
Playlist
Unit 1 Media Assets (BTL and PEEP)
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