by boot | Sep 8, 2025
Students write or draw a response to the question: “What would you say if you were the child in the story?”
by boot | Sep 8, 2025
Use cards with vocabulary words and cards with emotions (happy, proud, confused, thankful). Students match the word to the feeling shown in different parts of the story.
by boot | Sep 8, 2025
Give students post-it stickers (emoji faces) to place at parts in the book that make them feel different emotions.
by boot | Sep 8, 2025
Pause to talk about the main character’s actions and feelings. Ask: Have you ever given something away, or donated something?
by boot | Sep 8, 2025
As the carpet fills with cans, recreate it with paper cans. Count by tens to one hundred as a class.
