Fun at Phipps | Read Aloud
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Grownups – Here are some fun activities to engage your little learners even further:
Learn all about Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Liz’s binoculars were super cool! Guess what? You can make you own set of binoculars too! Using a paper towel tube or two toilet paper holders, make binoculars that you can use to go on a nature scavenger hunt. Make up your own or use this fun one.
Rudy and Sayde used a map to help them find the exit at Phipps. Maps are great for helping us find our way and for showing us where things are located. Make a map of your neighborhood or school, making sure you list all of your favorite places.
Nature Cat and his friends use a map to help them find treasure in this fun game.
About
Liz, from the WQED Education Team, is back to read you a wonderful story – entitled Fun at Phipp’s, written by our good friend, Connor – a winning story from the 2016 WQED Writer’s Contest. You can listen to Connor read the story here.
Credits: WQED
Standards
1.3.PK.C – Answer questions about characters, settings, and major events in a story.
CC.1.3.K.A – Retell familiar stories including key details.
CC.1.3.1.A – Retell stories and demonstrate understanding of the central message.
CC.1.3.2.A – Recount stories and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
CC.1.3.3.A – Determine the central message, lesson, or moral in literary text.
CC.1.5.K.A–B, CC.1.5.1.A–B, CC.1.5.2.A–B, CC.1.5.3.A–B – Speaking and Listening standards for discussion and comprehension of a read-aloud text.
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