Amazing Construction: Circle Activities

Helpful Learning Tools

• Learning Differentiation Guide
• Digital REEL Instructions
• Routine Essentials: Circle Routines

Digital REEL Group Activities

Click on the link to access the Star Online Learning System, which allows you to project instructional content on your smartboard, whiteboard, or other screen.

•  Link to the digital REEL – English 
•  Link to the digital REEL – Español

Calendar

Use visual supports to help students identify the days of the week, seasons, and weather. The themed calendar icons include repeating patterns for 31 days so you can customize the unit to suit your specific time frame.

• Calendar Icons
• Student Calendar Instructions
• Student Calendars: Option A / Option B / Option C

Unit Introduction Book

Provide students with an overview of the unit vocabulary and concepts with the unit introduction book.

• What Should We Build? : English | Español | Video

Reading

Make reading fun with original theme-based books, and published book recommendations. Review the reading guide to get started.

• Reading Guide

• Teacher Version: English | Español
• Student Version: English | Español

Book: "Counting Tools"

• Teacher Version: English | Español
• Student Version: English | Español

Book: "Who Am I?"

• Teacher Version: English | Español
• Student Version: English | Español

Book: “People and Their Tools”

• Teacher Version: English | Español
• Student Version: English | Español

Book: “At the Construction Site”

• Teacher Version: English | Español
• Student Version: English | Español

Published Book Recommendations

• Mighty, Mighty Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker
• The Gentle Bulldozer by Amy Baron
• This Is the Construction Worker by Laura Godwin
• Let’s Meet a Construction Worker by Bridget Heos
• Backhoe Joe by Lori Alexander

Songs

Teach verbal and gross motor imitation skills with original theme-based songbooks and animated videos.

Printable Songbooks

• What Do I Do?
• Construction Jobs
• There Was a Truck
• Five Little Trucks

Song Videos

• Hello Song: English | Español
• Days of the Week: English | Español
• If You're Happy and You Know It
• Clap Your Hands
• Open and Shut Them
• Hokey Pokey (Shorter Version | Longer Version)
• Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes (Slower Version | Faster Version)
• Five Speckled Frogs
• Twinkle Twinkle
• Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Group Activities

Introduce key vocabulary words and concepts with theme-based circle games and activities.

• Picture Mix-Up
• Move to the Song
• Jigsaw Puzzles
• Find the Hidden Hammer
• Charades

Print All

Note: if you choose this option, please select the “single sided” and “color” print settings, as some of the lessons require color printing.

• Print All