Description
A corn and popcorn farm to table unit for 1st and 2nd grade: nonfiction passages with questions, word work, writing, popcorn science and real-world math.
Students learn how corn grows and why a kernel pops, sort foods made from corn, play a partner dice game, add prices in cents and make a popcorn writing craft for the bulletin board.
Black and white pages are print and go. Cut the cut and paste pieces and laminate the color cards (for reusable durability) for a center.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
47 pages, including:
→ How Corn Grows passage and questions
→ Corn All Around Us passage and questions
→ From Corn to Popcorn passage and questions
→ Corn Words vocabulary match
→ Parts of a Popcorn Kernel label page
→ Corn Life Cycle cut and paste with writing lines
→ From Seed to Popcorn (6 steps)
→ How to Make Popcorn how-to writing
→ Corn or Not Corn? sort
→ Corn Riddles, ABC Order and Compound Words on the Farm
→ Corn Scrambled Sentences and Corn Word Hunt
→ Corn Word Problems
→ Even or Odd? Corn Kernels cut and paste
→ Solve and Color (sums and differences to 20)
→ Mystery Picture Hundred Chart
→ Corn Kernel Tens and Ones
→ Roll, Add and Pop partner game
→ Popcorn Stand menu math (cents)
→ Popcorn Bags Sold picture graph and a class graph
→ Why Does Popcorn Pop? experiment, My Popcorn Investigation and Describe the Popcorn
→ Sweet or Salty Popcorn? opinion writing planner
→ Popcorn Writing Craft (box and fact puffs)
→ How to Draw an Ear of Corn directed drawing
→ Big Cornfield Maze
► 12 color vocabulary cards (plant, grow, pick, dry, pop, eat, stalk, kernel, husk, popper, microwave, popcorn)
► My Corn Goals page and the Corn Expert award in black and white and color
► 2-page lesson guide with skills, materials, a suggested week, differentiation tips and an answer key
► Format: digital PDF download, US Letter 8.5 x 11 inches (on A4, choose Fit to Page). No physical product will be shipped.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
Short nonfiction passages with underlined vocabulary build comprehension without overwhelming young readers.
Corn math feels real: students pair kernels to find even and odd, count kernels in tens and ones and add prices at the popcorn stand.
Black and white pages are print and go for morning work, centers, homework or homeschool, and the color cards can be laminated.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ 1st grade classrooms
◆ 2nd grade classrooms
◆ Homeschool
◆ Literacy and math centers
◆ Morning work
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Reading comprehension with nonfiction passages
◆ Vocabulary, riddles, ABC order, compound words and sentence building
◆ Writing: how-to steps, describing words, opinion writing and a writing craft
◆ Science: corn plant parts, pollination, life cycle and why popcorn pops
◆ Word problems with number sentences
◆ Even and odd numbers, addition and subtraction to 20, place value and the hundred chart
◆ Money: adding prices in cents
◆ Data: picture graphs and a class graph
TERMS
© Teacher Natalie - iLovePreK. For personal use only: classroom, childcare/daycare, and homeschool use with your own children or students. One purchase covers one teacher or one family. Please keep the file for your own home or classroom and do not post it online or share it. Teams of 5 or more teachers can write to [email protected] for a multi classroom coupon.
