Pecos bill activities

Use these Tall Tale Character Poem Activity Sheets during your class study of Pecos Bill or Tall Tales Unit. Great poetry activity for literacy/poetry center or your substitute file. I've included pages to walk your students through the writing process, sample pages, graphics to color and more! Pick and choose what you want to use from this 15 page resource! Teacher Notes Page Format of poem Handout as well as Samples of the graphic organizer and final poem provided. Paul Bunyan poem is used…

Yee-haw! This here's the biggest, best cowboy in the west, Pecos Bill.

Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg is part of Clutter-Free Classroom’s Starts With a Story collection, which is a library of printable and digital resources for students in 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade. This picture book is great for teaching character traits, setting, making connections, summarizing, visualizing and goal setting. Your elementary students will love this read aloud and the related activities, worksheets and lesson ideas that are in the print and go book companion packet. Scoop them up…

NO EXAGGERATION! Your class is going to LOVE this. Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Pecos Bill, Annie Oakley One more genre to share with th...

We had such a great time learning about tall tales this year. It's honestly one of my favorite units in second grade. Slue-Foot Sue has always been ones of my absolute favorite tall tale heroes. I mean she rode a catfish the size of a whale...you just gotta love her! I found the Idiom worksheet below, which is part of the Evan Moor's Tall Tale Literature Pockets resource. When I saw the title of the page...I knew I'd have to create a downright silly Slue-Foot Sue to match. They had so much…

Well HOWDY! I'm so glad you've wandered on down to my little ole' blog! I'm honored to have you here, and am just proud as a peacock to be participating in my first I Teach 2nd Linky! Special thanks to Nicole for being hospitable and inviting me to join the fun! www.nicoleandeliceo.com Those who've been here before know that I have a love of all things western that is no secret! I'm here to share that with you today as we hunker down and study just how Tale Tales can enrich so many aspects…

Our librarian at school mentioned tall tales to our first graders in the early spring. The students were not very familiar with these stories. In the first grade we do read about Johnny Appleseed i…

Cut out a colorful ruler and start practicing measuring with this cowboy picture.

Tall Tales-anchor-Here is our anchor chart about tall tales. Boy have these kiddos loved tall tales. We covered John Henry, Pecos Bill, and Paul Bunyan. We barrowed Baloney from another teacher but our class needs to have one for further reference.

Yee-haw! Color in Pecos Bill, the wildest, bravest buckaroo in the West!