The Wonderful Book by Leonid Gore

Words A!ive has a Great Lesson Plan for this book that I really can't improve upon! 

This book also provides a good opportunity to talk about library behavior and bookcare after our LONG spring break!

I would select one song or finger play to do with the students and yes to the Bookworm activity.  

Coloring page for PreK

4th and 5th Grades

William Allen White ballots
                                                                   Tally form for each school

Standards
accesses information using various formats; explains meaning of a visual and/or aural message
Big 6/Handy Five
listens to others' ideas, waits for one's turn and describes others' ideas accurately and completely
think-pair-share

Resources

Everything on It by Shel Silverstein, The Frog, p. 81
The Frog Wore Red Suspenders by Jack Prelutsky
Toad by the Road by Joanne Ryder
Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff

Increasing Engagement PDF

Day 1  KWL
           Fiction:    Poem The Frog by Shel Silverstein            Nonfiction: Frogs and Toads and Tadpoles, too       
           Vocabulary: Researcher, Scientist, frog, tadpole, egg
           think, pair, share
Day 2   
            Fiction:  The Frog Wore Red Suspenders by Jack Prelustky       Nonfiction: Tale of a Tadpole
           listens to others' ideas, waits for one's turn and describes others' ideas accurately and completely
Day 3  
           Fiction: Toad by the Road, poem The Pond's Chorus            Nonfiction: Poison Dart Frogs Up Close
          accesses information using various formats; explains meaning of a visual and/or aural message
Day 4
          Fiction:  Frog Went A-Courtin'            Nonfiction: A Wood Frog's Life
          Big 6/ Handy 5 
         What have we learned round up

Resources

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, I Won't Hatch, p. 127
Chicky Chicky Chook Chook by Cathy MacLennan
With Love, Little Red Hen by Ada
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones --Reading Rainbow Video



Pull some Nonfiction Chicken books
Increasing Engagement PDF

Create a Bouncing Egg Activity--Note that we will create maybe 4 bouncing eggs for the library.  This will be a group activity, not an individual one.
Egg Hypothesis Worksheet to go with Bouncing Egg Activity
Guess the Egg Game
Who lays Eggs?  Color Me Activity Page

Standards
Organizes information for practical application (sequencing)
seeks information related to various dimensions of personal well-being
listens to other's ideas, waits for one's turn and describes others' ideas accurately and completely (talks about books)
Collaborates with others, both in person and through technologies, to design, develop, and to evaluate information products and solutions

Classroom teachers will be covering maps and inventors in April

Day 1  Mapping -- Parts of the Library
           Nonfiction, Fiction, Biography, Reference, Picture Books, etc
Day 2  Nonfiction -- Dewey Organization
Day 3  Fiction-Genres
Day 4  Reference-Types of Materials