| DOWN BY THE BAY |
| This literacy bag based on the book Down By the Bay by Raffi. Children will enjoy learning through the fun activities geared towards this silly song book. Inside the hand-painted canvas bag you will find EIGHT original, teacher-created EDUCATIONAL activities to enhance children's learning in various areas of the curriculum. Activities are printed on quality card stock, laminated in 3 mil. film for extra durability and everything is already cut out for you. Hand-painted canvas bag Juicy Word Problems: Solve each of the watermelon themed word problem. Add-A-Verse: Complete each line to add another verse to the song. Build a Sight Word: Use the cutout letter tiles to build each of the following words from the story. When you have finished, find the words in the book. Sight Word Cloze Activity: Fill in the blanks with a sight word that makes sense in the sentence. There is a word box at the right of the page to help you. Watermelon Math Mats: Draw the correct number of seeds on each watermelon. For addition practice: Turn the math mats upside down. Pick two and use them to create and solve an addition problem. Silly Patterns: Use the cutouts with animals from the story to create different patterns. Subject & Verb Matching: Line all the cards up in rows upside down for a memory game. Take turns turning two cards over. If you match each subject card (animal from the story) to it's correct verb card (that tells what it did) you get to keep the pair. When all the cards are gone, the person with the most pairs wins the round. Punctuation: Read the sentences below. Decide if each is an asking sentence that needs a question mark at the end or a telling sentence that needs a period at the end. Put the correct punctuation mark at the end of the sentence. Activity Letter: Explains how to do each activity |

| Literacy Bag Price: $19.99 |
| Activities in PDF via email Price: $4.99 |