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Hello Spring! Little Blue Truck’s Springtime Picture Book Activity

Elle Thomas
Little Blue Truck's Springtime book with animal baby matching puzzle activity.

Are you looking for a springtime science lesson with a handy literature connection? This is it! Connecting lessons and learning objectives to picture books or mentor texts is one of the best ways to set up pathways between students and learning. Read on for more tips on how to use this FREE resource in your lessons this spring.

Have Fun Teaching with Your Favorite Picture Books

FREE Baby Animal Match-Up Puzzle

Little Blue Truck and his friend Frog are on a journey around the farm in Spring. And what do they see? All of their animal friends and their newly born babies! You and your kiddos will love the beautiful and colorful illustrations in this book. Also cute farm animals, you are absolutely winning here. Click here to find this book!

It’s a yoo-hoo, sky-blue, spring-sing day! Who do they see along the way?

Six animal pairings are introduced in the book: sheep/lamb, duck/duckling, goat/kid, cow/calf, pig/piglet, rabbit/bunny, & hen/chick.

Connecting lessons and learning objectives to picture books or mentor texts is one of the best ways to set up pathways between students and learning.

Little Blue Truck’s Springtime Lesson Ideas

This colorful, low prep baby animal match-up puzzle activity is perfect for your pre-schoolers, kindergarteners, or young child at home. Keep reading to find fun ways you can use this resource, and download it for FREE below!

Read Little Blue Truck’s Springtime during your daily read aloud or science lesson. Extend the literature in the following ways:

  1. Use a pocket chart or magnets to organize animal parents with their offspring. Discuss new animal pairings/parents and vocabulary not introduced in the book: horse/foal, dog/puppy, cat/kitten, llama/cria, turkey/poult.
  1. Introduce the words parent and offspring. Explain to students that offspring is a word used to describe an animal’s young/baby. Write the words making two columns. Shuffle the activity pieces. Ask students to pull a card and sort it into the correct category: parent or offspring.
  1. Make a list of the animal parents you saw in the book. Ask students to name the offspring connected to each parent. Send students to work on a journal entry or illustration about their favorite animal pairing.

This simple and useful FREE activity is the perfect companion for Little Blue Truck’s Springtime.

I would love to see you and your little learners enjoying this resource. Tag me on Instagram (@elementery_elle) or send me a picture!

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Have fun teaching!

Hi! I’m Elle. I want to help you teach your kiddos and enjoy your teaching. I love creating engaging, easy to use resources for the primary classroom and beyond. Thanks for visiting!

Alphabet Practice

Alphabet Coloring Fun

Elle Thomas

Alphabet practice is essential for little learners of all abilities. I loved making this cute and fun coloring pack to help you introduce letters and beginning sounds to your kiddos. This resource is perfect for engaging your preschool and kindergarten students!

This alphabet coloring pack is perfect for early childhood. These pages are also wonderful to use at home for extra alphabet practice, and would work great for homeschoolers! Students have fun coloring big and bold pictures. There are two pictures/pages for each letter of the alphabet. This resource focuses on beginning letters and letter sounds. The corresponding word is spelled using bubble letters underneath each picture. Kiddos can color the letters in the word too!

This pack is all about the alphabet and beginning letter sounds. It is perfect for pre-school. As you teach a letter, students can color the matching printable. Students get to practice their coloring skills – while also being exposed to a bit of text! Early childhood homeschoolers will also find this pack helpful. If you teach kindergarten, you might be able to use this toward the beginning of the year. Completing a coloring sheet can also be used as a ‘reward’ or for early finishers.

Check out this alphabet coloring pack in action!

Included in this pack:

There are 52 NO PREP printable pages in this packet in all, 2 pages for each letter of the alphabet. Vowels include a page for both short and long vowel sounds.
Words Include: astronaut, airplane, boat, bear, cake, cat, duck, donut, elephant, eagle, fairy, fence, goat, glue, helicopter, hippo, insect, island, jam, jacket, kettle, king, lamp, lock, mushroom, milk, night, necklace, olive, oatmeal, penguin, pumpkin, queen, quilt, raccoon, rocket, socks, sun, turtle, tent, unicorn, umbrella, vase, volcano, web, window, xylophone, x-ray, yak, yarn, zebra, and zoo.
If you like what you see, go check it out on TPT! Click on the picture below to find this pack on Teachers Pay Teachers.