Tornado

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• Tornado by Betsy Byars, Doron Ben-Ami

Lesson 5

• How the Turtle Got Its Shell by Justine Fontes, Ron Fontes, and Keiko Motoyama

Materials

Common Materials

• journal
• crayons or colored pencils
• glue
• scissors
• deck of playing cards
• construction paper

Lesson 1

• U.S. map
• blue construction paper

Lesson 2

• dictionary

Lesson 5

• egg carton
• green construction paper
• green or brown tissue paper
• paper bowl

Lesson 6

• sentence strips
• note cards

Lesson 8

• thesaurus

Lesson 9

• picture book with an obvious plot

Final Project

• materials will vary based on your child's choices for projects

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used