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Topic / Theme: Green: the importance color has in our world and the different concepts the color green represents. Green can mean: go, environment conservation, money (greenbacks), or spring. Some things we recognize as always green by nature: frogs, alligators, green beans, peas, and plants. Yet, not all frogs and plants are green. Some plants we think of when we think green include: trees, grass, seaweed, and clovers. Clovers, also called shamrocks, are symbols we use when celebrating St. Patricks Day. At Christmas, we use pine trees and the colors red and green in our celebrations. PRIVATE
Reading Level: Primary grade levels.
Rationale: Color is a large part of our world. Children will learn the meaning of the color green, things we associate with the color green and why. Often people take for granted the important role color plays in our lives. Without green chlorophyll, we would not have the oxygen we need to breathe. Without green to add to the rainbow of colors, our world could be a less colorful place. Without a green light on light signals, we may have many traffic accidents. How often is the color green used or abundant around us? Yet do we realize the extent to which we depend on color. To some animals, being green or the ability to change to green is life saving. Many insects can blend in with leaves and other plants to hide from their enemies. To humans, the green grass and leaves on trees in the spring and summer are more cheerful than the brown grass and absent leaves of winter. Research has linked sunlight and the rejuvenating effects of spring and summer with positive mood shifts.
Day of the WeekBook #1Book #2Book #3MondayGreen Says GoGreen means Stop. Green Means Go.The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo- Chapter 1TuesdayMy Little Green BookThe Green Hornet Lunchbox.Green Eggs and Ham
The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo - Chpt 2WednesdayGranny Greenteeth ...Why Is the Grass GreenPurple, Green and Yellow
The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo - Chpt 3ThursdayGo Away, Big Green Monster!No Peas for NellieThe Green Gourd
The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo - Chpt 4FridayGreen Wilma.City Green
Book # 1 Author: Emberley, Ed.
Title: Green Says Go.
Reading Level: Primary Genre: Non-Fiction.
Summary: Explains in simple terms primary colors, secondary colors and mixing colors to create various shades and tints. Each color has a different name depending on the shade or tint of that color. Colors also have different meanings depending on how they are used or where they are found, this book presents some of the things colors "say".
Development of Theme: Color is used often to convey meaning. This book explains in simple terms some of the meanings of colors in daily life. We often take for granted that colors imply meaning, yet children need to learn many of the meanings concerned with daily life such as traffic signals, car lights, and signs.
Extension Activities:
1.) List what colors may mean, sign, signals, etc...
2.) List or have students write color words by listing primary colors and then as problems such as yellow + blue = green.
Book # 2 Author: Foster, Jean
Title: Red Means Stop! Green Means Go!
Reading Level: PreK - Primary Genre: Fantasy, Picture Book
Summary: The animals in this story all agree with wise professor owl, they need a school traffic cop to watch where they are going. It is unsafe to disregard the traffic signals and to not watch out for the person in front of you. Now they must all agree on whom will become their traffic cop. It must be someone who is careful, patient, kind and watches out for others.
Development of Theme: This book tells how to understand a signal light. One must know what the colors indicate to follow the instruction given at the signal. Children learn that a red light means to stop and a green light means to go. Children are also given safety tips concerning traffic rules. This is an important lesson for young children.
Extension Activities:
1.) Study traffic rules. (Use the bicycle safety rules of the road booklet.)
2.) Create signal lights for an art project. (Construction paper would work well.)
Book # 3 Author: Blume, Judy
Title: The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
Reading Level: Primary - Intermediate Genre: Fiction, Early Chapter Book
Summary: Freddy Dissel believed he would always be a great big middle nothing. Then he decides to try out for the school play and discovers he is special just being Freddy Dissel.
Development of Theme: Freddy stands out in the play as big green kangaroo. Children are shown that they each have their own special abilities and it is OK to just be themselves. This book is being used as an introduction to chapter books and only as a read aloud.
Extension Activities:
1.) Discuss family and how each person is special.
2.) Create a chart to schedule reading our chapter book.
Book # 4 Author: Suess, Dr.
Title: Green Eggs and Ham.
Reading Level: Primary - Intermediate Genre: Fantasy, Picture book.
Summary: Sam pursues the cat in an attempt to sell his green eggs and ham. Sam does not tell him how they taste, only that he should try them anywhere. The cat finally gives in after they all end up in the water. After agreeing to try the green eggs and ham, the cat finds they are not too bad. He even declares he would eat them anywhere.
Development of Theme: Children follow this comical chase and the rhyming nonsense. The words are simple word for beginning readers to follow and understand. The green eggs and ham fall in with the theme developed by showing that just because something is green does not always mean it is not any good. Of course, something's that are green are no good, such and mold and green slimy water. Yet children can begin to understand these differences. Also, the saying 'things are not always as they appear' apply perfectly with this story.
Extension Activities:
1.) With green food coloring, dye a couple of foods that are not normally green. Ask the children to try them and tell if they taste different when green. Possibly even ask the students for suggested foods to color. (E.g. popcorn and apple juice.)
2.) List green foods students do and do not like. Ask them why.
3.) Ask the students to list all the places Sam asked the man if he would eat the green eggs and ham.
Book #5
Author: Shirley Gordon
Title: The Green Hornet Lunchbox.
Reading Level: Primary
Genre: Fiction, Picture book.
Summary: A little boy named Joey is excited to eat from his new Green Hornet lunchbox with his best friend from last year. But his Best friend does not bring his lunch, he eats in the cafeteria instead. Joey decides to buy his lunch as well to eat with his friend until his friend brings his lunch in a paper bag because he does not like what is on the menu for the day. The next day, Joey decides he will take is new lunchbox anyway and has lunch with a new friend Charles.
Development of Theme: Milk is an important part of a nutritious balanced diet. By learning how the grass cows eat turns into milk, children learn the importance to grass and cows to us. Cows eat grass to produce milk; we drink milk to help us grow and develop strong teeth and bones. Children learn the relationship of cheese, butter, cream and yogurt to milk. Without milk we would not have these other products either.
Extension Activities:
1.) List students food likes and dislikes.
2.) Have students write and/or draw their favorite foods.
Book # 3
Author: Arnold, Tedd
Title: Green Wilma.
Reading Level: Primary
Genre: Fiction, Picture Book
Summary: Green Wilma wakes up in bed one morning, croaking and hungry for flies. She disrupts everything from breakfast to school. When she hops to the breakfast table, Wilma asks to pass her the bugs. When her mother proclaims that green children cannot go to school, green Wilma jumps out the window to catch the bus. At School, Wilma causes all types of commotion; especially after she spies a tasty looking fly and proceeds to chase after it. In the end Green Wilma recalls the words taught every little frog; When you dream, be careful that you dont fall off the log.
Development of Theme: Frogs and other amphibians are usually interesting to children of all ages. A fun story such as Green Wilma can teach children them many different colors around us. People generally do not associate things they encounter by color or consider all the different colors that makeup our world. If there were only one or two colors, life would be quite dull.
Extension Activities:
1.) Use pictures of frogs to color, cut out and/or draw.
2.) Talk about how frogs start out as tadpoles and grow. Are all frogs green?
Book # 4
Author: Arvetis, Chris and Carol Palmer
Title: Why Is the Grass Green.
Reading Level: Primary Genre: Non-Fiction presented as Fantasy
Summary: Mrs. Cow explains to the other animals why grass is green by explaining how grass and leaves grow. The simple explanations are given along with pronunciations for the "big" scientific names such as chlo-ro-phyll. Children learn the process of plants and leaves to produce the oxygen we breathe as well as how the obtain nutrients to keep their green color. Mrs. Cow becomes the teacher while the other animals form a "class" eager to learn about, why grass is green? This simple yet informative book answers question, why is the grass green?, in a format children will enjoy.
Development of Theme: Children will learn the importance of plants and leaves to us. They produce the needed oxygen for us to breathe. Without the green plants and leaves we would not have the oxygen we need. The format is appropriate for helping young children to learn this very important fact. Grass and plants are a part of our world that is not appreciated enough when considering their importance to humans and other animals.
Extension Activities:
1.) Practice the word from the book for spelling and vocabulary.
2.) Grow some grass in Styrofoam cups for each student.
Book # 5
Author: Kindersley, Dorling.
Title: My Little Green Book.
Reading Level: Pre K - Primary Genre: Non-Fiction, Scientific.
Summary: The color green is explored in a variety of ways. Many of the different things that are green in our world are introduced and explained. Even the way green paint was obtained and used in ancient times. Other things explored include: animals, feathers, light, plants, flowers, and water. Simple scientific explanations are provided for young readers to learn about how the color green applies to our world.
Development of Theme: An excellent book to allow students to explore how green relates to things around us. Green is found in many different forms, representing many different meanings. This book achieves its objective of describing the purpose and effects of color in our lives. Investigating the Color Green achieves the goal of helping students discover the importance and purpose of green as stated for this set.
Extension Activities:
1.) Paperclip a small piece of paper to the topside of a leaf. After a week, remove the paper. How has the lack of sunlight affected the color of the leaf? (p19)
Book # 6
Author: Demarest, Chris L.
Title: No Peas for Nellie.
Reading Level: PreK - Primary.
Genre: Fantasy, Realistic Fiction, Picture Book.
Summary: At dinner, Nellie insists she does not like peas. But, her father declares, No peas, No dessert. Nellie decided to try one pea. She then imagines impossible creatures she would rather eat than peas. While she imagines the wild animals she would rather eat, Nellie manages to polish off her peas before she even realizes it.
Development of Theme: There are many foods that are green. Peas are generally liked better by kids than spinach, but still not very popular. The story demonstrates Nellies wild imagination. Children can learn to use their imagination to make uninteresting things more exciting. You can go so many places if only you use your imagination.
Extension Activities:
1.) Create a graph showing who would eat peas (or spinach).
2.) Have the class make up a story about peas.
3.) What makes peas grow? How do they grow? Play Peas-in-a-pod.
Book # 7
Author: Emberley, Ed
Title: Go Away, Big Green Monster!
Reading Level: Prek - Primary
Genre: Picture book, Fiction, Toy book
Summary: Each page adds a colorful part to make the face of the green monster. Then the reader tells each colorful part individually to Go Away!" until the monster disappears. After the monster is gone, readers tell the Big Green Monster to Go Away, and Dont come back until I say so. The intent of this book is to help children conquer their fears of monsters and the dark.
Development of Theme: This book is designed to help children overcome their fears. By teaching them to take control of their fears and telling the big green monster to" . . . go away and not come back until I say so," many children can understand their monsters are not real. The "big Green monster" is typical of a scary imaginative monster. Green has been associated with scary things such and monsters, witches and goblins. These are all frightening to most young children. This is a fun exercise for children to learn in a group. Whether they have monster fears or not, children can enjoy telling the monster to go away.
Extension Activities:
1.) Dramatize the story, allow the children to act it out. Draw the imagines from the book or their own for the play.
2.) Allow students to draw their own scary monster.
3.) Let students tell other common fears to go away also.
Book # 8
Author: Maestro, Betsy and Giulio
Title: Dollars and Cents for Harriet.
Reading Level: Primary Genre: Fiction, Picture book, Fantasy
Summary: Harriet, the elephant, sees a kite she wants. Harriet also finds that she needs five dollars to buy the kite. She then sets out to earn five dollars with which to buy her kite. As Harriet collects the five dollars she needs, each dollar consists of single denomination coins to equal one dollar. The first dollar is in the form of one hundred pennies, the second in twenty nickels, the third in ten dimes and so forth. After earning her five dollars in coins, Harriet takes her coins to the bank to exchange the for five one dollar bills. Harriet finds the dollar bills much easier to carry. Harriet then goes to the store to buy her new kite with the five one-dollar bills in hand.
Development of Theme: This story teaches students the different forms of coins and how they each can add up to one dollar. The students can practice counting skills as they learn what each coin represents. There are pictures of the five one-dollar bills Harriet receives from the bank to show student what dollar bills resemble. As a side note children may be told the nickname for dollar bills - Greenbacks. Thus this is a very important form of green in our society. This is also a fun way to learn about money and introduce a math activity. Math is very important to learn when dealing with money. Mistakes can be costly with money.
Extension Activities:
1.) Use play money to count coins that equal a dollar.
2.) Using a play dollar bill, have the students pass the dollar to each other. As they receive the dollar, ask each student to tell what they would buy with the dollar.
3.) (KWL Chart) List the facts learned about US Government issued dollar bills . What other increments are bills made in.
Book # 9
Author: Wilkes, Angela.
Title: My First Green Book.
Reading Level: Primary
Genre: Non-Fiction
Summary: This book features scientific exploration of environmental activities and projects to help children learn about our environment and harmful effects on our environment. The subjects discussed include: water pollution, recycling, acid rain, and wildlife gardens. Experiments and facts are both used to demonstrate the effects on our environment.
Development of Theme: My First Green Book covers and environmental aspect of green. Green is used in symbols for recycling and conservation. Efforts to save endangered species of plants focus attention on the color of most plants, green. This book helps students learn the about efforts in conservation and environmental issues facing our planet. The issues are presented as global as well as on a local level. Students learn the problems facing earth as a whole to help them understand how far reaching these issues are. Students learn how they can help preserve our planet. Emphasis is placed on even small things that can protect our environment. The statement every little bit help cannot be understated. By teaching children at a young age to be environment conscience we are helping to create a better world for everyone.
Extension Activities: Discuss ways to protect our environment.
Book # 10
Author: Yolk, Jane
Title: Welcome to the GREEN HOUSE.
Reading Level: Primary - Intermediate
Genre: Non-Fiction, Picture book
Summary: This colorful story describes the Green House in the tropical rainforest. The rainforest and life found within the forest are described and illustrated so vividly one can almost imagine being in the rainforest. This is a wonderfully illustrated book that teaches children the importance of the rainforest, the creatures, which depend upon the rainforest, and the endangerment of the rainforest.
Development of Theme: Children will learn the importance of natures Green Houses and the need to protect them. The exotic animals and plant life of the tropical rainforest may be a new aspect of our world for small children. Study of the tropical rainforest can begin a study for the geographical, social studies curriculum. People need to remember and be mindful of the Green (Environmental-Ecological) necessity as part of our world.
Extension Activities:
1.) Have the students draw and/or color animals from the rainforest.
2.) Using tissue paper and construction paper, make a collage of a rainforest.
3.) Locate where rainforests are on a global map for geography lesson.
Book # 11
Author:
Title: Book.
Reading Level: Primary-intermediate.
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Culturally diverse.
Summary:
Development of Theme:
Extension Activities:
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Culminating Activities:
1.) Chart as many things as possible that represent the color GREEN. (Review & Expand)
2.) Grow plants, use starter plants and grow flowers from seeds. Allow students to take responsibility caring for the plants.
3.) Discuss class' favorite activities.
Bibliography:
Aliki. (1974). Green Grass and White Milk. New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company.
Arnold, Tedd. (1993). Green Wilma. New York, New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.
Arveris, Chris and Carol Palmer. (1985). Why Is the Grass Green. Italy: Children's Press Choice.
Behm, Barbara J and Donna Bailey. (1993). Investigating the Color Green. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Publishing.
Demarest, Chris L. (1988). No Peas for Nellie. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company.
Emberley, Ed. (1992). Go Away, Big Green Monster! Canada: Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited.
Emberley, Ed. (1976). Green Says Go. Canada: Little, Brown & Company
Foster, Jean. (1974). Red Means Stop! Green Means Go! New York, New York: Children's Records of America, Inc.
Goldsen, Louise. (Oct. 1991). Colors. New York, New York: Scholastics, Inc.
Gordon, Shirley. (1970). The Green Hornet Lunchbox. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Maestro, Betsy and Giulio. (1988). Dollars and Cents for Harriet. New York, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.
Suess, Dr. (1960). Green Eggs and Ham. New York: Beginner Books, Inc.
Wilkes, Angela. (1991). My First Green Book. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Yolen, Jane. (1993). Welcome to the GREEN HOUSE. New York, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Resources:
Aliki. (1974). Green Grass and White Milk. New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company. pp. 26-30.
Behm, Barbara J and Donna Bailey. (1993). Investigating the Color Green. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Publishing. pp. 10 & 19.
Wilkes, Angela. (1991). My First Green Book. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. pp. 16-7 & 36-7.
Ziegler, Sandra. (1987). Our St. Patricks Day Book. Elgin, Illinois: The Childs World. pp. 13-5,26- 7, & 30.
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