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Invite a local pet store or farm-hand that is willing to bring in a piglet for students to see, touch and learn more about. Again, reach out to parents if they might have a pig or know of someone with access to one.

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Invite a local residential contractor to come talk with students about building houses. If a parent is a contractor reach out to them first before exploring other options.

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Invite parents to join class for the student performances of their versions of the 3 Little Pigs.

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What If There Were No Gray Wolves?: A Book About the Temperate Forest Ecosystem 

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What If There Were No Gray Wolves?: A Book About the Temperate Forest Ecosystem 

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By: Suzanne Buckingham Slade
Amazon Summary: Deciduous forest ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent. Countless animals and plants live in them. So what difference could the loss of one animal species make? Follow the chain reaction, and discover how important gray wolves are.

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By: Byron Barton
Amazon Summary: A machine digs a big hole. A cement mixer pours cement. Carpenters put up walls. Bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, and painters do their part. Through brilliantly simple words and pictures a house is built.

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Cool Architecture: Filled with Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages

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Cool Architecture: Filled with Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages

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By: Simon Armstrong
Amazon Summary: Want to know more about the buildings around you? Can’t tell a Doric from a Corinthian column? Interested in how the Egyptians built the pyramids, and how on earth a dome stays up? Then this book is for you. Packed with absorbing facts and quirky illustrations, Cool Architecture tells you everything you need to know about architecture around the world, from the simple dwellings created by the earliest humans to today’s most innovative buildings, via forbidding medieval strongholds, great 18th-Century palaces and the classic Art Deco skyscrapers of New York.Learn about the great architectural movements and the personalities that created them, and explore the most iconic buildings in the world, from the Parthenon in Greece to the (current) world’s tallest skyscraper, the Khalifa Tower in Dubai. This book is a perfect introduction to what’s cool about the fascinating world of architecture.

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The Three Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig

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The Three Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig

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By: Eugene Trivizas
Amazon Summary: When it comes time for the three little wolves to go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the big bad pig. But the little wolves' increasingly sturdy dwellings are no match for the persistent porker, who has more up his sleeve than huffing and puffing. It takes a chance encounter with a flamingo pushing a wheelbarrow full of flowers to provide a surprising and satisfying solution to the little wolves' housing crisis.

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By: RH Disney
Amazon Summary: The three little pigs have never looked so cute and the big bad wolf never looked so bad in this retelling of the classic fairy tale! Vintage Disney artwork from the 1940s makes this book an important addition to every Little Golden Book collector’s library.

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By: Jon Scieszka
Amazon Summary: In this hysterical and clever fracture fairy tale picture book that twists point of view and perspective, young readers will finally hear the other side of the story of “The Three Little Pigs.”

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TEKS: 1.b(1)(F)- create and imitate movements in response to selected rhythms.
Activity: One student, representing the wolf, will stand in the middle of the class. Remaining students will play as pigs and circle up around the wold.  Students will sing the "wolf, wolf are you there" song while moving clock-wise in a circle around the "wolf." Once the wolf is ready, he runs after the little pigs in attempt to tag them. Students will take turns being the wolf and the teach can assign different movements for the students when running from the wolf. Linked below is the "Wolf, Wolf Are you there" song.

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TEKS: 1.b(2)(C)- Increase manipulative skills necessary to produce drawings, paintings, prints and construction
Activity: Using their creativity students will create sets and props for their retelling dramatization of The 3 Little Pigs. Attached is a link to ideas of what their props and costumes might look like. Be sure to avoiding giving too much instructional direction. Allow students to build and create with their own imagination and collaboration with peers.

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TEKS: 1.b(2)(C)- dramatize simple stories
Activities: Students will act out while retelling the story of the 3 Little Pigs.

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TEKS: 1.b(6)(A)- describe how technology (tools) change the ways families live.
Activity: Group discussion about materials, styles, tools and techniques commonly seen in houses today.

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TEKS: 1.b.(5)(A)- classify objects by observing properties such as: larger and small, heavier and lighter, shape, color and texture
Activity: Students will explore and observe straw, sticks and bricks (small ricks). They will record their observations in their science journals noting size, weight, texture and colors.

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TEKS: 1.b(2)(B)- use concrete models to compose numbers up to 120
Activity: Manipulatives for this activity are: strand of straw to represent units (1), sticks for rods (10), small rock/bricks for flats (100). Students will use manipulaties to create different number between 1 and 120.

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TEKS: comprehension (E)- retell or act out important events in stories in logical order.
Activity: Students break into different groups to create their own dramatization of The 3 Little Pigs. In their groups, students will write a script in similar sequence to the traditional story of The 3 Little Pigs. After rehearsing a few times, students will be given the opportunity to present their story to the class. Stories are allowed to be creating as long as they follow the basic plot line of the 3 Little Pigs- ex. they can create an alternate ending, change the animals or building materials.