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The Day the Crayon’s
Quit
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The Day the Crayon’s
Quit, tells the hilarious story of the day the crayon’s had all had enough.
Tired of being used for the same ole same ole. Each crayon tells the story what
they are tired of, in a letter to Duncan. This story is absolutely adorable for
all children. The creativity behind this story is wonderful.
Lesson Ideas: Ask the students to do some creative writing
on why they think their crayon would quit. This book and activity prompts
students to get creative.
Author Information: http://www.crayonspicturebooks.com/drew-daywalt-oliver-jeffers/ @DrewDaywalt
Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtc05BG9yz8
The Day the Crayons Came Home
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The sequel to The Day
the Crayon’s Quit, tells the story of different crayons who have been lost
or ran away. They send him a postcard to ask him to come get them. He creates a
home for all his crayons.
Lesson Ideas: Have students write from the point of the view
of a crayon asking the students what color they would be and where they would
run away. Then, have students build their own crayon storage from classroom
materials asking them to make their crayons a home have a rectangular prism,
cylinder, or prism home.
Author Information: http://www.crayonspicturebooks.com/drew-daywalt-oliver-jeffers/ @DrewDaywalt
Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXBe7PKIk9U
A Bad Case of the
Stripes
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A Bad Case of the
Stripes, tells Camilla Cream’s story. Camilla likes Lima beans
but her classmates do not, so she does not eat them because she wants to fit
in. As her mother goes to get her for school she has a bad case of the stripes.
Camilla turns a variety of patterns depending on what her classmates call out.
After a series of transformations Camilla’s only hope is trying Lima beans.
That cures it! Camilla learns that it does not matter whether or not she does
what everyone else does. It is better to stand out than fit in. I love this
story and the lesson it teaches in such a unique way.
Lesson Ideas: Deliberate traits (physical
traits versus personality traits). Learn about cause and effect by thinking of
and discussing what caused the stripes and what the effect of these stripes
were.
Author Information: http://nodavidshannon.com/
Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlciBmHJd2A&t=493s
The Rainbow Fish
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The Rainbow Fish, was one of my favorite stories when
I was a child and I cannot wait to share it with my students. The Rainbow Fish
is a story about a beautiful rainbow and shiny colored fish who swims in the
ocean. A fish one day asks for a sparkly fin and the Rainbow Fish yells no and
tells him he will not give him a fin. After this, none of the other fish want
anything to do with him, but the Rainbow fish does not understand why. He goes
on a hunt to find out why nobody likes him. He is told to give away his sparkly
fins to the other fish. Then the fish comes back and asks again for a scale and
this time the Rainbow Fish gives him a sparkly scale. In the end, the Rainbow
Fish learned the more scales he gave away the happier he became.
Lesson Ideas: Study about fish and the ocean habitat. Count
how many shiny scales the rainbow fish has and then subtract as he gives away
his scales. Discuss the moral of the
story about how sharing and being nice is better than not sharing and being
beautiful.
Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbKr-k1PTvA
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