Tops and Bottoms Book Activities

TOPS AND BOTTOMS

Looking for a read aloud that will teach your students about how plants grow in spring? Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens is a great book for that! Your Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade students will also LOVE the lazy bear and the industrious hare as they battle for farmland in this fun story! Tops and Bottoms is a great book to use when teaching students about how food grows. It's a wonderful springboard for any food unit or gardening theme.

TOPS AND BOTTOMS BOOK SYNOPSIS

Tops and Bottoms is a book about Bear, who had lots of money and lots of land, but no ambition. He was lazy! All Bear wanted to do is sleep. Along comes Hare, who was in need of food to feed his family. Hare devises a plan where he can plant on Bear's farm and split the harvest- one gets the top half and one the bottom half. Can you guess what happens next? Students will get a great lesson in how vegetables grow! Some food grows below the ground, some on the ground, and some above the ground. Clever Hare keeps tricking Bear so that he can keep the harvest, and soon has enough to feed his family.

TOPS AND BOTTOMS BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

With this Tops and Bottoms unit, students can enjoy a good story while working on engaging learning activities. Students learn about story elements, text to self connections, retelling the story, and the main idea or theme.

Students will also learn how food grows- above the ground, on the ground or under the ground. This is great for a cross-curricular lesson pairing reading with science.

The book study also has worksheets for comprehension, defining problems & solutions, visualizing, and author's purpose.

This literacy companion includes writing activities. Students can write a story retell and use a story writing prompt to guide their writing ideas.

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