Story Hour Post
Post Title: The Day the Crayons Quit
Theme of Story Hour:
Empathy
Bibliographic Information:
Daywalt, Drew, and
Oliver Jeffers. The day the crayons quit. HarperCollins Childrens
Books, 2016.
- Setting the scene: “Each and every day, we use
our voices to tell others how we feel. If we are sad, we frown and
sometimes cry. If we are happy, we
smile and sometimes laugh! Let’s
think about the things around us that don’t
have a voice. Imagine if the things
we use everyday could tell us how they
feel. Today, we are going to put
ourselves in someone else’s shoes, only that “someone” isn’t going to be a
person”.
- Get into character: The teacher should wear a
crayon costume (or a crayon hat) while reading “The Day the Crayons
Quit”.
- Props: “The Day the Crayons Quit”
book, Crayons costume/hat
- Telling the Story: Before you begin reading, list
the crayon colors on the board.
Have the students describe what each crayon might feel if it were
real (and had feelings). Have them
explain why they chose that emotion.
Compare the student responses to the crayons’ letters in the book!
Connected Books for Display
Daywalt, Drew, and Oliver Jeffers. The
day the crayons came home. HarperCollins Childrens Books, 2017.
Craft/Activity: After listening to “The Day the
Crayons Quit”, students will choose an object of their choice and write a short
letter describing how that object “feels” similar to the way the crayons wrote
a letter to Duncan. The class should
first discuss a few examples to give the students ideas and guidance.
**The idea for this activity originated from: http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/books/the-day-the-crayons-quit**
**The idea for this activity originated from: http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/books/the-day-the-crayons-quit**
Standard:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.A
Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
Goal: Students will understand empathy
Objective: Students will write about what
they think an inanimate object might feel if it had feelings similar to the
crayons in the story.
Outcome:
The students will have a finished writing piece and an understanding of
empathy.
Tags: Children’s
literature, grade 3, story hour
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