Unit 6: Building Structures

This list gives you an overview of all the materials you will need throughout this 3-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.

• adobe brick (real or a picture)
• bag (for letters/pictures)
• Between the Lions alphabet chart
• blocks (wooden, grid, bristle, pattern, etc.)
• blue construction paper
• boxes
• building materials (e.g. blocks, clay, craft sticks, flattened cardboard boxes, paper cups, paper towel rolls, tin foil, newspaper, pieces of wood, pieces of concrete, flat rocks, wooden logs, plexiglass pieces, pieces of metal with rounded edges, etc.)
• camera or cell phone with camera
• cardboard boxes and tubes
• cardboard or toy house
• cardboard pieces (flat; a variety of sizes)
• chairs (one per child)
• chalk
• chart paper
• circles or squares of paper with a different, colorful, alphabet letter written on each (one per child)
• clay
• clipboards
• clips or clothespins
• connecting cubes
• construction paper
• construction paper labeled “My Alphabet Chart” (one for each child)
• craft sticks
• two-sided tape
• crayons
• digital camera and projector
• drawing paper
• drinking straws (or straw)
• foam craft balls
• glue
• hair dryer (handled by adult only)
• journals (one per child)
• large outlines of uppercase “T” (one for each child)
• large poster board
• large shape cards (circle, square, triangle, rectangle)
• large straight pieces cut from colored poster board
• letter card: “Xx” (multiple copies)
• letter cards (one for each letter of alphabet)
• magnetic fishing pole (magnet tied on a string attached to a ruler)
• magnetic letters “x,” “r,” “a,” and “y” (several sets)
• magnetic letters (or small single letter cards): “b,” “c,” “d,” “e,” “f,” “g,” “h,” “i,” “l,” “m,” “n,” “o,” “p,” “s,” “u,” and “w”
• markers
• measuring tools (measuring tape, ruler, etc.)
• mural paper cut into sections large enough to trace a child (one for each child)
• name cards
• name chart
• newspaper
• number cards 1–10
• old magazines and store flyers
• paired toys (dolls and dollhouses, plastic people and toy cars, etc.)
• paper
• paper fasteners
• pen
• photocopies of illustrations from Building a House
• picture book of bridges (such as Bridges are to Cross by Philemon Sturges)
• picture of your home
• pictures of a fox, an ax, an ox
• pictures of bridges
• pictures of building materials and tools (include materials featured in the read-aloud books for the week)
• pictures of houses and buildings of different sizes and shapes
• pictures of houses in various stages of construction
• pictures of objects that begin with the letter sound /t/ and some of objects that do not
• pictures of objects, some that begin with the /b/ sound (include action words)
• pictures of real-life tall buildings (towers)
• pictures or books of real pigs in their environment
• pipe cleaners
• plastic or paper cups
• plastic or toy bat
• play tools (including a hammer)
• saguaro cactus (real or a picture)
• samples of straw, twigs, and brick
• scissors
• screwdriver
• sentence chart
• sentence strips
• sticky notes
• stiff paper or manila folders cut into 18” strips, about 2” wide
• storyboard and story figures for The Three Little Javelinas (3 houses, 3 javelinas, 1 coyote, tumbleweeds, cactus, girl with sticks, man with bricks, stove with stovepipe)
• storyboard and storyboard figures for The Three Little Pigs
• string
• stuffed animals (one for each child)
• tape (masking or duct)
• toolbox with real or toy tools (hammer, nails, measuring tape, pliers, screwdriver, saw)
• toothpicks
• toy cars (one for each child)
• tumbleweed (real or a picture)
• versions of The Three Little Pigs book children have been reading
• wood blocks (approx. 4’’ × 2’’) and three short screws (for each child)
• word cards: x-ray, build, house, tool
• written materials from the week (charts, drawings, etc.)

Books

The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone
Building a House by Byron Barton
The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell
Tap Tap Bang Bang by Emma Garcia
Alphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming
Tell the Truth, B. B. Wolf by Judy Sierra
Houses and Homes by Ann Morris

Videos

“Huff and Puff” (BTL show) (0:07:00)
“Chirp Builds a Nest” (PEEP show) (0:08:45)
“My House” (BTL show) (0:05:41)
“Play With Words: ‘butterfly’” (BTL clip) (0:00:42)
“Words Beginning with ‘b’” (BTL clip) (0:00:16)
“Words Beginning with ‘t’” (BTL clip) (0:00:30)
“Word Morph: six–sax–fax–fox–box” (BTL clip) (0:00:23)
“Fred Says: fix, six” (BTL clip) (0:00:34)
“Reginald Monkey: x, x-ray, xylophone” (BTL clip) (0:00:43)
“Words Beginning with ‘x’” (BTL clip) (0:00:14)

Songs

“A Pig Lives in a Pen”
“A Hunting We Will Go”
“Good Morning to You”
“Good-bye to You”
“Here We Go Round the Alphabet”
“I See Someone”
“I’m Feeling Sorry”
“I’ve Been Working on My Straw House”
“Johnny Works With One Hammer”
“Sing, Sing, Sing with Me”
“This is the Way We Build a House”
“Who Are You?”

Poems and Chants

“Jump In!”
“Ten Little Nails”
“Three Javelinas”
“Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear”

Interactive Game

“Dub Cubs” (BTL game)

Playlist

Unit 6 Media Assets (BTL and PEEP)
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