Hiking Day, by Anne Rockwell, is a book about a young girl and her family as they enjoy a day hiking and all the wonderful things in the outdoors that they encounter.
What is included with the book write-up?
- Vocabulary list
- Questions for teaching inferencing skills to enhance comprehension
- Journal prompts
- Detailed activities that cover learning outcomes for Math, Language & Literacy, Science and Art
- Save hours of searching the internet for activity ideas
- Hands on activities with things you can find around the house
Learning Outcomes covered
- Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories or books
- Children will develop skills in listening for the purpose of comprehension
- Children will develop age appropriate writing skills
- Children will learn to discriminate the sounds of language (phonological awareness)
- Children will create and duplicate simple patterns
- Children will learn how to use a variety of non-standard and standard means of measurement
- Children will use processes of science to actively explore and increase understanding of the environment
- Children will acquire scientific knowledge related to life science
- Children will acquire scientific knowledge related to earth science
- Children will explore and use a variety of materials to develop artistic expression
