Hooray! Pinata, by Elisa Kleven, is a story about a little girl’s birthday pinata that she becomes attached to and doesn’t want it to be a game at her party after all.
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 begin to develop age appropriate strategies that will assist in reading (retelling and alphabet knowledge)
- Children will sort and classify objects
- Children will learn how to use a variety of non-standard and standard means of measurement
- Children will acquire scientific knowledge related to chemical science
- Children will explore and use a variety of materials to develop artistic expression
