I chose this activity to help my pumpkins understand the vocabulary word spiral. We created a rose by cutting a spiral out of colored paper and rolling it around a pencil. The students drew pictures
showing patterns in leaves. Then they glued the rose to their picture. I asked them to write what they know about this spiral in nature and showed them page 47 in the story.
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| Although this friend is not my strongest writer, I love the details in the leaves. |
Then we moved on to the words coil and expand.
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| Students recreated a picture of the snake from the book. They were asked to write to tell me about the snake. |
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| We only glued the tail down so students can show the meaning of coiled and expand. |
I found the Snake Pattern at Art Projects for kids . You can click here for the free snake pattern.
