Book of the Day Teaching Ideas: The First Edition
/Each weekday I share picture books for the classroom and teaching ideas over at the Galarious Goods Instagram account. Now I’m proud to share them here with you.
A Dog’s Tale by Michael Rosen and Tony Ross
A lovely book which explores advice perfect for young dogs - and humans. This is a great book for exploring advice, which advice is good advice and how we can use it in our lives.
Students may like to create their own animal advice books. They can explore the behaviour of different animals and reflect on how that behaviour might connect with human traits.
Fire by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
This is such an important book, exploring the fury of a bushfire and its impact on people, structures, animals and the natural environment.
Students can spend some time exploring the author and illustrator notes in the book. They might like to use these to form more questions.
Oi Cat! by Kes Gray and Jim Field
This is a serious favourite in my household with it’s rhyming word play - and the playful use of words makes it perfect for the classroom.
As well as exploring the rhymes in the book, students may like to choose one of the animals mentioned in the story for further research - looking at what they are, where you find them, their habitat and other interesting facts.
Cloud Dance by Thomas Locker
This is a really pretty book exploring clouds - a great one to add to any exploration of clouds and weather.
Students can use this book to inspire their own writing, drawing or photography of the clouds they see. Alternately, they can find pictures of clouds online and write poetry and descriptions of these.
The Return of Thelma the Unicorn by Aaron Blabey
Thelma is back! This time backed up by Otis and exploring what good she can do for the world.
This is a great book for exploring good things we can do in the world. Students might like to brainstorm how they can be ‘unicorns’ for their community and how they can bring joy and glitter into the world.
