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Emergency Plans for First Grade
If I Ran the Zoo
Materials:
o If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss (found in the Everyone section – E Seu)
o Crayons (crayon buckets are on shelves in workroom)
o “How About This?” Coloring page
Lesson:
o Read the book to students. Pause periodically for students to make predictions about what animal will be next.
o Have students share their favorite part of the story.
o Show students the “How About This?” coloring page.
o Send students to tables to draw the animal they think Gerald McGrew would want for his zoo. Encourage them to make crazy mixed up animals.
o Have students share their animals.
Clifford
Materials:
o Any Clifford books by Norman Bridwell (found in the Everyone section – E Bri)
o Clifford “All Year Long” mini-book
o Crayons (crayon buckets are on shelves in workroom)
o Scissors (scissors are on shelves in workroom)
Lesson:
o Read the book to students. Pause periodically for students to make predictions about what will happen next.
o Have students share their favorite part of the story.
o Send students to tables to color the mini-book.
o Have students cut out & fold to assemble their mini-book.
Arthur
Materials:
o Any Arthur book by Marc Brown (found in the Everyone section – E Bro)
o Arthur coloring sheets (2 different pages)
o Crayons (crayon buckets are on shelves in workroom)
o Tape (in the checkout desk)
Lesson:
o Read the book to students. Pause periodically for students to make predictions about what will happen next.
o Have students share their favorite part of the story.
o Discuss how Arthur and his friends always work together and how today they will be working with a friend to make a picture. Show them how there are 2 parts to the Arthur picture. They will work on 1 page, a classmate will work on the other page and then you will tape the 2 parts together to make a whole picture.
o Hand out pages (I suggest doing 1st page to one student and the 2nd page to the next student so you know you have a matching number of pages).
o Send students to tables to color their Arthur pages.
o As students finish their page tape it to the page of the next student who has the other ½ of the picture.
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type
Materials:
o Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin (found in the Everyone section – E Cro)
o “Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type and Other Tales from the Farm” DVD (found in the Video/DVD section – DVD E Cli)
o TV with DVD player
Lesson:
o Read the book to students. Pause periodically for students to make predictions about what will happen next.
o Have students share their favorite part of the story.
o Show students the “Click Clack Moo” section of the DVD.
o If there is extra time, show students other selections from the DVD.
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Materials:
o One of the Harold and the Purple Crayon books by Valerie Garfield (found in the Everyone section – E Gar)
o Purple crayons (crayon buckets are on shelves in workroom, go through them and pull out 30 purple crayons)
o Large butcher paper (rolls of white Library paper are in the workroom on the bottom shelf where the crayons are) Cut off 5 pieces about the length of your arm span. Students will use the plain white side.
Lesson:
o Read the book to students. Pause periodically for students to make predictions about what will happen next.
o Have students share their favorite part of the story.
o Discuss how Harold makes things with his purple crayon.
o Ask to students to share some things that Harold might draw with his purple crayon if he came to our school.
o Explain that they will be working in small groups to make a purple mural of what Harold might draw if he came to our school.
o Put students in small groups (no more than 4 in each group) and spread them out around the library to work on their murals.
o Have groups share their murals.