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Drama

Book: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Grades: PK-3rd grade
Standard: 9.1.D.1.B1-Recreate a familiar story individually or cooperatively for an audience.
Description: Three goats have eaten all the grass in their field and want to travel to a bigger
meadow on the other side of a bridge. But the bridge is home to a vicious troll who threatens to
eat anyone attempting to cross it.
Activity: Have students create their own Billy Goats Gruff Mask by using paper plate cutouts, as
well as cotton balls for the beard and cut out paper for the ears. Great for theatre play.

Book: Caps For Sale

Grades: K-2nd Grade
Standard: 9.1.D.K.B1-Recreate a dramatic play experience for an audience.
Description: A peddler who walks along the countryside offering caps for sale. What is unusual
about the peddler is that he chooses to carry his stock of caps on his head-one piled on top of the
other. One day, the peddler decides to rest by a large tree.
Activity: Have students create construction paper caps of all different colors and adjust it to fit
on children’s heads. Reread the story, and have one child play the role of the peddler, while the
others play the monkeys. Have them use their cap visors to reenact the hat scenes.

Book: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Grades: PK-3rd Grade
Standard: 9.1.D.K.E1-Use imagination and creativity to express self through dramatic play.
Description: A family goes on an adventure to find a bear, but they have to face numerous
obstacles to get there, and once they arrive at the cave they are scared by what they find.
Activity: Have students create their own map to find a bear.

Book: The Gingerbread Boy

Grades: 2nd-4th Grades
Standard: 9.1.D.1.B1-Recreate a familiar story individually or cooperatively for an audience
Description: A gingerbread boy runs away from the woman who made him and her husband.
While running away the gingerbread boy encounters different animals who tries to eat him!
Activity: Students create their own gingerbread boy and recreate their story of how the
gingerbread boy is eaten.
Book: Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights
Grades: PK-3rd Grade
Standard: 9.1.D.2.E1-Identify the difference between a play designed to teach the facts and one
designed to communicate a story, emotion, or theme.
Description: Protesting. Standing up what’s right. Uniting around the common good-kids have
questions about all of these things they see and hear about each day. Through sparse and lyrical
writing, Rob Sanders introduces abstract concepts like “fighting for what you believe in” and
turns them into something actionable.
Activity: Make a colorful collage of statements from all the students in the classroom of what
they stand up and believe in.

Visual Arts

Book: Blue Chicken

Grades: PK-K
Standard: 9.1.V.K.B1-Combine a variety of materials to create a work of art.
Description: The author has created an irresistible character that springs to life and wreaks
havoc in a farmyard with a pot of blue paint. The innocent chicken just wants to help, but things
get worse and worse-and bluer and bluer-the more she tries.
Activity: Students will use blue water colors to color a chicken while also using splash painting
to color other material described in the story blue.
Book: Beautiful OOPS!
Grades: Kindergarten
Standard: 9.1.V.K.E1-Use imagination and creativity to express self through visual arts
Description: A life lesson that all parents want their children to learn: It is OK to make a
mistake. In fact, hooray for mistakes!
Activity: Each student receives a piece of paper with a smear of paint on it. They would be
challenged to turn that piece of paper into a “beautiful opps” and create a wonderful work of art
incorporating the smear.

Book: When a Line Bends….A Shape Begins

Grades: K-3rd Grade
Standard: Use imagination and creativity to express self through visual arts.
Description: A line is narrow-curved like a worm, straight as an arrow. Squares, circles,
triangles, and many more shapes abound in this lively book. With jaunty, rhyming text, young
readers are invited to find different shapes on each busy vibrant page. Once you start looking,
you won’t be able to stop!
Activity: Students will draw creative shapes on a piece of paper.
Book: Wonder Bear
Grades: 2nd-3rd grade
Standard: 9.1.V.K.B1-Combine a variety of materials to create a work of art
Description: A hat that allows him to work all kinds of magic that day. He pulls monkey after
monkey from the hat, blows bubbles in amazing shapes, and transforms flowers into spectacular
floating sea creatures. The two kids are wide-eyed with wonder, and you will be too.
Activity: Teacher will bring in a hat with objects inside the hat. Students will then draw and
paint one of the objects that was in the hat on a piece of paper.

Book: Mix It Up!

Grades: PK-Kindergarten
Standard: 9.1.V.K.E1-Use imagination and creativity to express self through visual arts.
Description: Follow the artist’s simple instructions and suddenly colors appear, mix, splatter,
and vanish in a world powered only by the reader’s imagination.
Activity: Students will have the chance to mix liquid paints in a bag and add a white piece of
paper underneath to help the colors pop.
Music

Book: What Makes Music?

Grades: PK-1st Grade
Standard: 9.1.M.1.A1-Know and use basic elements and principles of music and movement.
Description: A family of birds introduces early readers to music, note by note. Colorful ribbons
add more pizzazz—one for each musical note—that thread the book together as each page adds a
shiny new ribbon. This educational book is a feast for the eyes and ears.
Activity: Students can record their own music sounds on a tape recorder and the class can make
their own “music book.”

Book: One Love Based on The Song By Bob Marely

Grades: K-2nd Grade
Standard: 9.1.M.K.B1-Respond to different types of music and dance through participation and
discussion.
Description: Adapted from one of Bob Marely’s most beloved songs, One Love brings the
joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics of his music to life for a new generation.
Activity: Students will listen to the original song of “One Love” by Bob Marely.
Book: Listen To The Music From Around The World
Grades: PK-1st Grade
Standard: 9.1.M.K.B1-Respond to different types of music and dance through participation and
discussion.
Description: Aimed at the very young, this book has a button on every spread, which triggers
one of six different types of instruments from around the world to join with, from the bagpipes to
the bongos.
Activity: Students will get to try different instruments from around the world and get to draw
country flags that the instruments are from.

Book: This Jazz Man

Grades: K-1st Grade
Standard: 9.1.3.A-Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in
the arts and humanities.
Description: Using a lively version of the children’s song This Old Man, this book introduces
famous African-American jazz musicians as it counts to nine.
Activity: Students listen to a variety of jazz instruments. Have students pick one and come up
with a jazz tune while pretending to play the instrument.
Book: Max Found Two Sticks
Grades: K-3rd Grade
Standard: 9.1M.K.E1-Use imagination and creativity to express self through music and dance.
Description: The story of young boy’s introduction to the joys of making music, certain to get
many a child’s foot tapping and many a youngster drumming. One day when Max doesn’t feel
like talking to anybody, he finds two sticks that make a perfect pair of drumsticks.
Activity: Students will get two bang sticks where they will be able to “drum” on objects all
around the classroom.

Health/Gross Motor Movement

Book: Move Your Body! Exercise Tips

Grades: K-2nd Grade
Standard: 10.2.K.A1-Identify fundamental practices for good health
Description: It’s almost Field Day! But Natalie’s team isn’t ready for the big race. Their
muscles get tired easily. Ms. Starr teaches them about aerobic and anaerobic exercise. They learn
some stretching exercises too. Now they’re full of energy. Can they win the beach ball relay?
Activity: Students will participate in different stretching exercises in class.
Book: Good Enough To Eat: A Kid’s Guide To Food and Nutrition
Grades: 3rd-4th Grade
Standard: 10.1.3.C Explain the role of the food guide pyramid in helping people eat a healthy
diet
Description: One of a kind book: the only guide to kids’ nutrition written especially for kids. A
practical, hands-on tool for families who want to eat a healthy diet, this book explains nutrition
from carrots to cookies.
Activity: Have students pretend they are at a restaurant and order food. Students will identify
making healthy and unhealthy choices.

Book: Brush Your Teeth Please

Grades: Kindergarten
Standard: 10.2.2.A1-Identify personal hygiene practices and community helpers for good health
Description: Learn about proper dental hygiene in this delightful pop-up book. What child can
resist imitating a chimp brushing its teeth back and forth? Youngsters will have lots of fun
learning about proper dental hygiene in this delightful pop-up book.
Activity: Students will practice brushing their teeth with a toothbrush while also creating their
own song to sing while brushing their teeth.
Book: Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends and Foes
Grades: K-3rd Grade
Standard: 10.1.2.E1-Identify and discuss common health problems and risk factors.
Description: Told from the perspective of Sam the Salmonella, this informative picture book
introduces young readers to helpful and harmful germs, exploring their discovery; the breakout
of historic diseases; the invention of pasteurization, vaccination, and penicillin; and other
fascinating details about the world of microscopic.
Activity: Students will draw pictures of different healthy habits that prevent the spread of germs
and should be followed by individuals.

Book: You’re Missing It!

Grades: K-3rd Grade
Standard: 10.2.1.A1-Identify fundamental practices for good health.
Description: A hilarious cautionary tale about what happens when you are glued to your phone.
It is a lively day at the neighborhood park. Birds are singing, squirrels are frolicking, dogs are
causing a commotion-and wide-eyed children are enthralled by it all.
Activity: Students will go for a walk outside the school. Students will observe what is going on
around them outside. Students will then draw what they ended up seeing while they went for
their walk.