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LESSON PLANS
Children's Book:
The Flower Ball
Celebrating
our Differences
“The Flower
Ball” is a beautifully illustrated book that helps carry the
idea of awareness and acceptance of diversity. This book
highlights the important lesson that not only should we
celebrate our differences by sharing our uniqueness but we
should also strive to learn about others uniqueness, resulting
in acceptance.
Objectives
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Students will understand that we are all very different and
unique people, coming from different unique backgrounds.
- Students
will investigate what makes them unique.
- - Students
will learn about their classmates’ uniqueness.
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Students will
create a dialogue of acceptance and understand the consequences
if acceptance is not created among one another.
Complete lesson plan
Children's Book:
The Love For Three Oranges
Introduction:
Literature,
Theatre and Opera
The “Love for
Three Oranges” is a famous opera written by Sergei Prokofiev and
has been illustrated beautifully by Polish illustrator, Elzbieta
book Gaudaskinska. This book gives the reader the opportunity to
visualize the story with more than just Prokofiev’s words. It
allows the reader to create the synthesis of literature,
theatre, and opera in their own minds.
It is
important for the teacher to highlight that this book comes from
an Opera and have the students listen to the parts of the opera.
Objectives
- Students
will open their minds to theatre and opera as a form of
entertainment, expression, and storytelling.
- Students
will explore the intricacies of character development.
- Students
will identify important components of theatre.
- Students
will be exposed to music, theatre, and literature.
Complete lesson plan
Children's Book:
The Boy and the Spell
(cross-curriculum
guide by author Pegi Deitz Shea)
MATH
Discuss and show how the concept of “time” is linked with both
math (as an operation) and music (as a rhythm/beat indicator).
--Create a musical staff on the board. Have the children beat
out different rhythms on their desks. Count all the pictures of
“staffs” in the book.
--Young children can count all the clock faces in the book and
try to tell their time.
--Find the compass in the first two scenes. Demonstrate a real
one. Find all the circular images in the book. Point out the
circular nature of our numbers and letters.
--Search for geometric shapes. Find shapes that are broken,
incomplete.
--Older students can do the real math in the numbers spread.
Complete lesson plan
Children's Book:
Silly Horse
Patterns and Poetry
Silly Horse is a book filled with imaginative poems and
beautiful illustrations. It is a good tool to help students
minds fill with creativity and learn about poetry.
Objectives
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Students
will learn that poems can be made by rhyme and pattern.
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Students will explore the books imagination and creativity
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Students will investigate rhymes within the poetry of this book
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Students will create their own poem with a partner
Complete lesson plan
Children's Book:
A Little Story about a Big Turnip
Cooperative
Folklore
Folktales
are stories that come from all around the world. They allow
cultures and traditions to be passed along and kept alive, often
times carrying a simple but important moral to the story. This
Russian folktale is told with a great concept of cooperation and
teamwork that every grade level can adopt and integrate into the
classroom. “ A little Story About a Big Turnip" book shows how
one person can make a difference when everyone works together.
Even if the person is as small as a little mouse.
Objectives
- Students
will learn what about folktales and their long history of oral
tradition.
- Students
will analyze the book with a big idea in mind.
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Students
will understand the different components of a folktale.
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Students will
cooperatively create their own folk tale.
Complete lesson plan
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