Author Overview: Pat Hutchins Duration: 6-8 lessons Grade: K

CORE COMPETENCIES

LANGUAGE ARTS BIG IDEAS

1: Language and stories can be a source of creativity and joy. / 2: God’s Word helps us learn about ourselves and our families. / 3: Stories can be told through pictures and words. / 4: Everyone can be a reader
and can create stories.
5: God’s Word is the Ultimate Love Story.
Everyone has a unique story. / 6: Playing with language helps us discover how language works. / 7: Listening and speaking builds our understanding and helps us learn.
Language Arts Curricular Competencies
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing):
●  Use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning
●  Use developmentally appropriate reading, listening, and viewing strategies to make meaning
●  Explore foundational concepts of print, oral, and visual texts
●  Engage actively as listeners, viewers, and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity, and community
●  Recognize the importance of story in personal, family, and community identity
●  Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to stories and other texts to make meaning
●  Recognize the structure of story
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing):
●  Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding
●  Use language to identify, create, and share ideas, feelings, opinions, and preferences
●  Create stories and other texts to deepen awareness of self, family, and community
●  Plan and create stories and other texts for different purposes and audiences
●  Explore oral storytelling processes
Cross-Curricular (BC) Competencies Links:
Science:
●  Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world
●  Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
●  Ask simple questions about familiar objects and events
●  Make exploratory observations using their senses
●  Safely manipulate materials
●  Make simple measurements using non-standard units
●  Experience and interpret the local environment
●  Discuss observations
●  Take part in caring for self, family, classroom and school through personal approaches
●  Transfer and apply learning to new situations
●  Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
●  Share observations and ideas orally
●  Express and reflect on personal experiences of place
Arts Education:
●  Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play
●  Explore artistic expressions of themselves and community through creative processes
●  Observe and share how artists (dancers, actors, musicians, and visual artists) use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and techniques
●  Develop processes and technical skills in a variety of art forms to nurture motivation, development, and imagination
●  Reflect on creative processes and make connections to other experiences
●  Express feelings, ideas, stories, observations, and experiences through the arts
●  Describe and respond to works of art
●  Experience, document and share creative works in a variety of ways
Math:
●  Develop, demonstrate, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry, and problem solving
●  Visualize to explore mathematical concepts
●  Engage in problem-solving experiences that are connected to place, story, cultural practices, and perspectives relevant to local First Peoples communities, the local community, and other cultures
●  Communicate mathematical thinking in many ways
●  Use mathematical vocabulary and language to contribute to mathematical discussions
●  Explain and justify mathematical ideas and decisions
Health:
●  Develop and demonstrate respectful behaviour when participating in activities with others
●  Identify caring behaviours among classmates and within families
●  Identify and describe feelings and worries
●  Identify personal skills, interests, and preferences
Socials:
●  Ask questions, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and features of different types of sources
●  Sequence objects, images, or events, and distinguish between what has changed and what has stayed the same
●  Recognize causes and consequences of events, decisions, or developments in their lives
●  Acknowledge different perspectives on people, places, issues, or events in their lives
Career:
●  Identify and appreciate their personal attributes, skills, interests, and accomplishment
●  Recognize the importance of positive relationships in their lives
●  Share ideas, information, personal feelings, and knowledge with others
●  Work respectfully and constructively with others to achieve common goals
Title / Teaching Strategies/Methods / Assessment Strategies/Methods
Rosie’s Walk / ●  Teach positional words through an obstacle course outside or in the gym.
●  Watch the story on “You Tube”, talk about the characters, the simple words and the humour.
●  Do a simple dot-to-dot or maze of Rosie’s walk /
10 Red Apples / ●  Counting to 10. Can do this with paper apples, an apple numbering page or math buckets.
●  Nice simple repetitive story. /
Titch Stories:
Titch
You’ll Soon Grow Into Them Titch
Tidy Titch
Titch and Daisy
Sticky Titch
Titch Dresses Up
Titch and the Baby
Titch’s Snowy Day
Titch Out and About
Titch and the Picnic
Gardener Titch
Titch and the Windy Day
It’s Bedtime Titch
It’s Christmas Titch
Titch’s ABC / ●  Talk about changes and growing up.
●  Have flower pot on the bulletin board, plant a paper “seed” and then make it grow. Talk about what a real plant needs to grow and whether this plant is real.
●  Make a pinwheel from “You’ll Soon Grow Into Them”
●  Can do a matching activity of big, middle and small (Peter, Mary and Titch) the web site Sparklebox.co has some picture cards for this.
●  Measure things that are small, medium and big in the classroom with unifix cubes or a ruler.
●  “Tidy Titch” is a good way to talk about cleaning up and how we clean up after centers and at school.
●  Lots of cute animated stories about Titch on” You Tube”.
●  Journal about any of the situations Titch finds himself in.
●  Compare/contrast Titch and his family to your own family and your role /
Changes, Changes / ●  Share book and have kids guess what will be built next.
●  Play blocks!
●  Take a picture of each child’s best creation and have them journal a simple sentence about it. (I made a ______).
●  Learn the 3d shapes. /
The Doorbell Rang / ●  Act out the story complete with cookies.
●  Give kids paper “cookies” and have them share them with a friend or two. How many would you each get? Can do number addition and subtraction sentences as difficult or easy as you wish depending on the number of children and the number of cookies.
●  “No one makes cookies like Grandma does” Can become a variety of journal sentences. /
The Wind Blew / ●  Sequence what the wind blew.
●  Do “wind” paintings by blowing through a straw to make two colors of paint run together to see what new color they make. (Keep paint runny and make sure kids do not suck but blow)
●  Act out the story or do show on the felt board.
●  Learn about weather, especially the wind.
●  Wait for a windy day and see what the wind will blow. Fly a kite. /
Don’t Forget the Bacon
The Surprise Party / ●  both stories, the message changes from one scene to another. How can we get a message mixed up? Play “telephone” around the circle to demonstrate this. How is truth and telling the whole truth important?
●  send a surprise message to someone
●  make a “grocery” or birthday list
Author Biography: / List of Books:
http://pathutchins.com/
Pat Hutchins, one of seven children, was born in Yorkshire, England, and grew up in the surrounding countryside, which she still loves. At a very early age she knew that she wanted to be an artist and was encouraged by an elderly couple who would give her a chocolate bar for each picture she drew. A local art school offered her a scholarship and she studied there for three years, continuing her training at Leeds College of Art, where she specialized in illustration. Her career in the children's book field began with the highly acclaimed Rosie's Walk, a 1968 ALA Notable Book. Since then she has written five novels and created more than twenty-five picture books. She was awarded England's prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in 1974 for The Wind Blew. Pat Hutchins lives with her husband in London, England.
/ Rosie's Walk
Tom and Sam
Changes, Changes
Titch
Good Night, Owl
The Silver Christmas Tree
The Wind Blew
Don't Forget the Bacon!
Happy Birthday, Sam
The Best Train Set Ever
One-Eyed Jake
The Tale of Thomas Mead
1 Hunter
King Henry's Palace
You'll Soon Grow into Them, Titch
The Very Worst Monster
The Doorbell Rang
Where's the Baby?
What Game Shall We Play?
Which Witch is Which?
Tidy Titch
Silly Billy
My Best Friend
The Surprise Party
Little Pink Pig
Three-Star Billy
Titch and Daisy
It's Bedtime, Titch
It's Christmas, Titch
Shrinking Mouse
Titch Dresses Up
Titch's Snowy Day
Gardener Titch
Tidy Up Titch
Titch and the Baby
Titch and the Picnic
Titch Out and About
It's Bathtime, Titch
It's MY Birthday
Sticky Titch
Titch's Windy Day
Ten Red Apples
We're Going on a Picnic
There's Only One of Me
Don't Get Lost!
Bumpety Bump
Barn Dance
Clocks and More Clocks
Ezra Pound's Kensington
Ezra Pound's Pisa
Hare-Raising Tail
Titch's ABC
Totem Pole