If You Give a Pig a Pancake

I was very, very, very excited to find this cute book in my pile of boxes last night! I have recently been invested in this set of books by author Laura Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond. A group of peers and I used If You Give a Moose a Muffin last year in a unit based on food, and then again this year for a Tiered, Differentiated Instruction lesson for our Learning Support class. Besides those two units, I found out that I would be teaching a Language Arts unit with a "pig" theme for my 5 week practicum this year. So, If You Give a Pig a Pancake fits absolutely wonderfully, and I've already got the lesson planned out!

Here are some highlights of the lesson:

• Intended for Grade 1 students
• Language Arts: about 30 minutes (I am thinking it might take two lesson sessions)
• I will read the story and talk to the students about how important order is (the story is based largely on cause and effect).
• I will bring in materials for making a bowl of cereal: bowl, spoon, milk carton, and cereal box: I will ask the children what order we use these in to make a bowl of cereal. I will ask students if I took away the spoon, or the bowl, or the milk, or the cereal, then would our breakfast be the same?
• Then, in their "pig booklet" that I've made for the entire unit (filled with graphic organizers, vocabulary, songs, poems, and "fast finishers" activities) ... there are 2 pages that I've made which have bits of the story written in text boxes, but are ALL mixed up!
• As a class, we will work together to cut out each text box and put the story back in order.
• I will have my own set to model up on the whiteboard.

Looking forward to this lesson, and wanted to share it with you all!

:)