I sent home a small paper bag with each student, as well as a letter describing the Mystery Bag activity.
On their assigned day, students are to bring in the paper bag with a secret item inside. The item needs to begin with the same sound as the first letter of their name.
The rest of the class will try to guess what is inside of the Mystery Bag...
and in doing so, will be practicing letter sound skills :)
The guessing continues until someone actually does guess what is in the bag & I take it out and show them
OR
they run out of guesses and it's time for a hint. For example, "It is an animal."
My last student to present starts with letter 'S'.
I am still in amazement over the students' guesses of what could be in her bag!
Here are some of their great guesses:
snake
sunset
sandcastle
skunk
sap
stump
Sleeping Beauty
sippy cup
skates
spaceman
snack
swimming pool
sin
sock
Oh my word, too cute! :)
Here is what was in the bag:
Strawberry Shortcake
Now that the activity is over, I have assembled all of the pages into a class book.
Here are some pages from it:
It is a class favorite!
I also wanted to share a book I made that goes with the book From Head to Toe by Eric Carle.
You can find it free at my TPT store!
I love the mystery bags. What a great idea to use the first letter of their names! I am your newest follower. Also, thank for the freebie! :0)
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Kindergarten Faith
Love the Mystery Bags! I may have to try that after we finish the ABC's as a review!!
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First Grade Blue SKies
I love this! I have a silly question. I am a first year teacher so I haven't made class books before. Can you tell me how you put these together? Do you laminate each page?
ReplyDeleteHi Traci, I print a coloured copy of the cover page, and photocopy a class set of student pages. When the book is complete I just staple it together and put it in the reading centre. In the past I have used page protectors and then put the pages in duotangs. Hope this helps!
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