Miss. Neilson is Missing! Cross-Ciricular Activity

Back to Grade 1!

   I didn’t get any calls today, but that meant I was able to re visit a class I spent a lot of time in last year. The teacher and I organized this really great cross-curricular activity that involved: literacy, math and art that I want to share!

   We started by having a read aloud if Miss Neilson is Missing. We then talked about the book; big idea, characters, setting and some words we didn’t know for our word wall. We then introduced the students to the poem:

Miss. Nelson is Missing!!! I wonder where she went…

How long will she be gone and what was her intent?
All I see are ____ pattern legs that stomp, stomp, stomp
from that mean, horrible, and nasty Miss. Viola Swamp!

   The students are learning about rhyming words – so this was an aid to that.

In math the students are learning about pattering; so the student’s had to create and colour a pattern for the leggings as part of their visual arts/math component.  They also had to identify which type of pattern it was using letters. Students had to cut out Viola’s stockings and glue them onto the paper with feet and a skirt. I thought this was a great idea and wanted to share! Hopefully you can use it in your class somehow!