by boot | Mar 14, 2025
In the story, we learn that Alego enjoys digging for clams with her grandmother. Share an activity that you like to do with a family member, friend or pet.
by boot | Mar 14, 2025
Teach children how to handle their anger in positive ways. Create various wheels that children can spin to choose a way to calm down when they feel angry. Have children spin the wheel and practice ways of calming down through role-playing. Make various wheels with...
by boot | Mar 14, 2025
Role-play situations that could possibly make someone feel angry. Have students show how they would react in each situation. Discuss how controlling their anger can change the situation, and role-play the situation again. Examples of some situations are: Your friend...
by boot | Mar 13, 2025
Arrange the children into small groups, and within each group assign each child the role of a food that is prepared in the poem, and one or more child to be the cook. For example, to make guacamole have children pretend to be avocados, limes and cilantro while one or...
by boot | Mar 13, 2025
Choose one of the foods your group named before you started reading. Ask the children to identify all of the parts of that food (e.g., for a hamburger: bun, beef patty, tomato, lettuce, cheese). Next, ask your group to name (or guess) where these things come from. Do...
