The document provides activities for several children's books including The Polar Express, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Frog and Toad are Friends, and Horton Hatches the Egg. For each book, it outlines reading the story, discussing concepts from the book, and related hands-on activities. The activities focus on language arts, math, and science skills for first grade students and incorporate multiple intelligences such as kinesthetic, musical, and interpersonal learning.

1. Ring-oA Collection of Activities Based Off Books or Songs With Science/Math and Language Arts.

2. The Polar ExpressAsk students if they have ever seen a train or been on a train before.

3. Go through the book page by page and ask the students to hold up their hand if they see the word train on the page.

4. Read The Polar Express

5. Have the students work on the three math problems listed on the next slide.

6. LA 1.1.1- Concepts About Print:Match oral words to printed words.

7. Math-1.3.1 Write and solve number sentences from problem situations involving addition and subtraction.

8. MI- Logical-MathematicalThe Polar ExpressUse pictures, words, or numbers to explain how you got your answer.1.If there are two seats in every row of the train, and there are 10 rows, how many kids could sit on the train?2.Each child got to enjoy one treat. On the train we had five different kinds of cookies and 3 different kinds of candies. How many choices were available?3. How many more choices of cookies than candies.

9. ChickaChicka Boom BoomHave the students sing their ABC’s

10. Read the story ChickaChicka Boom Boom

11. Use small plastic drink bottles(like what bottled water comes in) and you let the children put alphabet pasta, beads, glitter, beans, and whatever else you think they'll enjoy inside the bottle. They can decorate the outside of the bottle with alphabet stickers. They could even make a little grass skirt out of construction paper or art tissue to tape around the bottle.These Chicka boom boom bottles can them be used when you retell the story. When you read the words "ChickaChicka" the children shake their bottles. When you say "boom boom" they tap the bottles on their hands.

12. Have the students write on a piece of paper the way they put their objects in the bottle such as 1st 2nd etc..

13. Reread ChickaChicka Boom Boom with the boom boom bottles.