[teachnva]

I teach first grade and am looking for some ideas to go along with the book/movie Charlotte's Web. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

[Weezer]

I give each child a coffee filter and have them draw a spider web on it with black marker. I then have tahem go to the dump ( a basket of magazines in the room) to look for a word suitable to put in the web. They love this idea and we discuss the pros and cons of each word. Sometimes I have little plastic spider grafitti they can glue on the web as well. I post them in the hall or on a bulletin board titled "What word would you put in Charlotte's Web?"
Another activity is to put together a story bag that helps each child retell the story. Children are to put items in a bag that represnet the story elements. As they pull out the items from their bag they tell aabout the story! Great fun and the children love it!

[teachnva]

I like your ideas! What type of things do you put in the bags? Are they actual items or pictures? Thanks for your input.

[Weezer]

Both. My example had a stuffed animal (pig), a plastic spider, and a little doll figurine to rmeind me of Fern. I put in a notepad piece of paper that looked like a barn, I tore a piece of a newspaper to remind me of Templeton going to the dump to look for words, a coffee filter to represent the spider web and a blue ribbon to remind me of Wilbur going to the fair and earning a special prize. Oh, I almost forgot, I had a toy piece of bacon (from a play food set) to remind me that the problem of the story was Wilbur was going to be killed for food. I do this regularly with books and the children love it! They are so creative!

[TLC]

An acrostic using the word FRIEND
Learn the parts of a spider

[TLC]

An acrostic using the word FRIEND
Learn the parts of a spider:
abdomen,back part, contains glands to make silk
eyes, 8, 6, 4 or 2
fangs, sharp hollow teeth
legs, covered in hair and used a sense organs
cephalothorax, front, brain and stomack
pedipalps, feelers to find food and water
spinnerets, tubes at back of abdomen. Spiders push the silk out of tubes with its feet

Give them a simple outline of a barn and fill with animals. draw or cut out
What words might Charlotte choose for the other animals?
Let them taste buttermilk.
Use a piggy bank outline as a mat and work money problems on it using paper coins.
Black construx paper and teach how to draw a web with chalk.

[msharkey]

a friendship unit
a unit on the farm
discussing life cycles
discussion of what makes you special and write about it
riddles for the characters (and/or a character web)
changing the setting of the story and creating a new class story

[AmyH]

Go here:
http://coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/2.htm
The lesson it titled: Growing Up Charlotte: Looking at Life Cycles

[pat porras]

I just started reading Charlotte's Web to my students. Prior to reading the book, I encouraged my students to visualize what kinds of things we may find in a farm. I did this by using chart paper using the headings: See, taste, smell, hear, feel. I encouraged my students to close their eyes and visualize what they saw. My goal in this activity is to encourage and teach students the importance of visualizing when reading as a means to helping with comprehension. The students loved it. As I read the book, I stop every so often and ask students what they visualize. ( for example, what does the barn look like? smell of?) We discuss that everyones' visualization is different because of our schema ( See Debbie Miller's book: Reading with Meaning, to further guide you with this). Later on, as I read, I also encourage my students to draw what they see. For example chapter 3 is an excellent one do to this. I also encourage the students to label their drawing so that later when they present it, it will help them and others see what their drawing has.