Turtles

By Kathryn Stevens

Summary: This book provides detailed information needed to properly choose and care for several different types of turtles as pets.

Activities

1. Language Arts

A. Vocabulary: highlighted in text/glossary at back

Activity: While reading book, stop at highlighted word and ask for student definitions, followed by definition given in glossary

TEKS: K5 Students understand new vocabulary and use it correctly in reading and writing.

B. List:

Activity: After reading book, have children make a list of things turtle need.

After making list, have children evaluate list and decide if a turtle would be a good pet for them.

TEKS: K10 B recall important facts in a text heard or read

2. Math

A. Look at photos of turtles in book and describe patterns

Construct a pattern on the black-line turtle

TEKS: Math K5A The student is expected identify, extend, and create patterns….

B. Patterns

Read Pattern Bugs and Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes

Discuss different forms of patterns found in animals

Computer puzzles of animals with patterns

3. Science

A. True/False Review: Power Point attachment

TEKS: K1, K3 Using information and critical thinking to make decisions

4. Art

Activity: Construct turtle from paper plate pattern---adding patterns and body parts as needed.

Each child in group must tell one different fact about turtles to be written on turtle shell.

TEKS: K.2. (A) The student is expected to create artworks, using a variety of colors, forms, and lines.

Internet Resources

Author’s Website http://www.childsworld.com/links

Other Web Resources

Literary Connections listed in back of book.

correlating Mockingbird Book

Javernick, Ellen. The Birthday Pet. Marshall Cavendish Children. 2009

Harris, Trudy. Pattern Bugs. Houghton Mifflin Edition. 2001 (AISD K Math)

Swinburne, Stephen R. Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes. Boyd Mills Press. 1998