Creepy Carrots Book Companion October Preschool Kindergarten 1st 2nd Special Ed

About this resource

One book, one week. Read the same story every day at circle time, and pull one simple activity

after the read-aloud each day — sort, count, find the letter, get ready for snack, then build a

craft from the story. Every student page has one short instruction with a picture, so a

paraprofessional can run the room from it too.

This week pairs with **Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds** (or The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss —

use whichever read-aloud you already have). Not affiliated with the author or publisher. You need

your own copy of the book; nothing from the story is reproduced here.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (57 pages)

• 1 Start Here week plan: what to do after the read-aloud each day, plus what else it practices
• 1 book-and-words page naming both read-aloud options, an original circle-time chant ("Carrots

in the Garden," written for this unit — no song or story text is reprinted), and the 9

circle-time vocabulary words

• 9 smartboard slides for whole-group circle time on a projector or interactive board: name the

pictures, sort, count (3 slides), the letter hunt, the life skill in order, and the core word

• 9 circle-time vocabulary cards to cut out and use at the carpet (carrot, rabbit, sprout,

basket, eyes, night, broccoli, corn, flower)

• Day 1, Sort (vegetable or toy?), at 3 levels: Level 1 errorless matching, Level 2 the standard

two-group sort, Level 3 a third group added (vegetable, fruit, or toy) — 10 cut-and-glue

pieces on every level

• Day 2, Count and glue the number, at 3 levels: Levels 1 and 2 count 1–5 (5 rows, a 5-piece

numeral strip to cut and glue); Level 3 counts 6–10 and writes the number, no cutting

• Day 3, Letter C, at 3 levels: Level 1 glues 5 matching C's, Level 2 finds C among 10

look-alike letters, Level 3 says 10 pictures aloud and glues the 5 that start with the /k/ sound

• Writing, at 3 levels: Level 1 traces the big letters, Level 2 traces letters and the word,

Level 3 writes the letters and the word independently on primary lines

• Day 4, a life-skill sequencing page: 5 picture pieces (4 real steps to get ready for snack,

first/next/then/last, plus 1 that does not belong)

• Day 5, a book craft built for this story: color and cut a 7-piece creepy carrot (a tall ridged carrot,

a bunch of leaves, 2 googly eyes, a toothy grin, eyebrows and a fence picket — straight cuts only) and glue it peeking over a garden fence

• 2 fine motor pages: a tracing-paths page (4 dashed paths from the bunny to the carrot: straight,

wave, zigzag, loops) and a cutting-practice page (4 strips, easiest first)

• 4 core-word pages for the word of the week, "in": a big word card for the talker or core board,

a 12-word find-and-circle grid (6 of the 12 are the target word), a basket to color, and 10

vegetables to cut and glue in the basket

• 1 "Who Did What This Week" data page (one row per student, a prompt-level code for each day —

handy for IEP notes and progress reports)

• 1 family letter to send home on Day 1
• 1 credits page (art and font licenses)
• Ink-saver twins of 19 picture-based student pages (the craft and pure-coloring pages are

color-only) in outline art for a photocopier

Three Levels On Every Academic Task

Sort, count, letters and writing each come in three levels, marked with a small shape instead of

a number so children don't compare theirs to a neighbor's: a circle for starting (errorless

matching), a square for building (the standard task), a triangle for ready for more (a real step

up — a third sort group, 6–10 counting with writing, or beginning sounds).

Cutting Built For Small Hands

Every cutting page carries 5 or more pieces, lined up edge to edge so each cut is one straight

line. Pre-cut them yourself for students who are not cutting independently yet.

Color Or Ink-Saver

Print the color pages, or use the ink-saver twins at the back on a photocopier — most

picture-based student pages have both (the craft and pure-coloring pages are color-only by

design).

Who This Is For

Any teacher starting a self-contained preschool or early childhood special education classroom

who wants a whole week of circle time, ready to pull and go: one book, one theme, a different

simple activity every day.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A print-and-go weekly theme unit built around one read-aloud. It is not a claim about any

student's age, diagnosis, or rate of progress, and it does not reproduce any part of the

storybook — the book is named only so you know which one to pair it with.