Moving Day

2 weeks ago I decided to use the story , "Moving Day" from our Houghton Mifflin anthology as our shared reading. The kids did a fantastic job reading it all by themselves by the end of the week with amazing expression and fluency. As our celebration activity on Friday, we used water colors to paint a paper plate (which represented the crabs shell). We then made a red hand print for the body and pipe cleans and googly eyes. Inside their white folders they drew the crab from the story and used a bubble map to come up with adjectives for the crab. On the right hand side, they wrote about the crab and used some of those adjectives from the bubble map in their writing. Students used a flow map to sequence the story. I think it came out pretty cute!