Theme Pockets, July, Grades 1-3 – Teacher Resource, E-book

Theme Pockets, July  contains reproducibles galore -- minibooks, patterns, writing forms. Interactive bulletin boards, calendar form, and up-to-date bibliographies included. Step-by-step instructions provided, including ways to make book covers extra special. Lots of reproducible illustrations included.  Help your students make books with pockets and they'll have a resource they created themselves of which they can be proud.

The three topics for July and examples of the activities that go in the pockets are:

America, the Beautiful:

• glittering fireworks displayed with cinquain verse
• "Things Weren't Always Like This" minibook
• "Coming to America" shape book
• Statue of Liberty cut paper project
• a special "America, the Beautiful" songbook

Space:

• planets flip book
• comets, asteroids, and meteors
• minibook on a ring
• sponge-painted sun
• rocket mitt puppet
• astronaut in space art project, rocket shape book

Transportation:

• transportation riddles
• wheeled vehicles report
• sailboat shape poems
• submarine shape book
• make and test fly a paper airplane

Lessons include:

• colorful art projects
• creative writing
• nonfiction writing
• science
• informational reading and writing