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.

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.

14. LA-1.7.1 Comprehension- listen attentively

15. Science 1.5.1 use numbers up to 10 to place objects in order such as first second and third.