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The Way to Start a Day Lesson Plans Author: Byrd Baylor
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Welcome to my The Way to Start a New Day Lesson Plans page. In this teaching resource set you will find two different sets of writing resources to use for Byrd Baylor's Caldecott Medal winning picture book.
During the month of November, I read The Way to Start a Day by Byrd Baylor to my students. This book fits well with an autumn theme because of the colors that the illustrator, Peter Parnall, has used throughout this Caldecott award winning picture book. There are also images and references to Native Americans in this picture book, which relate to the Thankgiving theme.
In the book The Way to Start a Day the author describes how different people in different countries start their days by being thankful for a new day. This is not a Thanksgiving book, and it can be used anytime of the school year, and the resources that I have created for it are not related to Thanksgiving.
I like to read this book to my students during the months of November or December because in the United States, that is when two of our biggest holidays occur. I have created a group project for The Way to Start a Day that requires students to research an important holiday that is celebrated in another country.
Students enjoy learning about holidays and traditions that are important in other countries, writing a description about them, and drawing a picture that best represents that holiday. In Byrd Baylor's book, he refers to 8 different countries/cultures, so I feel that this Country Holiday Wheel group project ties in well with the theme of his book.
For the second set of teaching resources in this set, I have developed a creative writing topic that refers to The Way to Start a Day that is titled: The Right Way to Start a Day of School. This is a two paragraph essay that students reflect on how to be prepared for school, use their best effort, and how to treat others with kindness and generosity.
Both of these teaching resources are included in the The Way To Start A Day lesson plans set.
1. Country Holiday Wheel Cooperative Group Project
I have created a Country Wheel Group Project set of teaching resources for The Way to Start a Day by Byrd Baylor. This set contains the following:
directions
first draft writing template
final draft templates (40 different country choices)
bulletin board accent pieces (40 different children carrying their country flags)
matching 5 page bulletin board display banner
Below are the teacher directions that are included in this set.
Below is an example of what the first draft response sheet looks like. Cut these rectangles out, and give each student one. Students write a short description of a major holiday that is celebrated in the country that they chose.
On the final draft templates, students write their description on the lines provided, and then draw and color a picture in the space provided that respresents that country's holiday.
This set includes 40 different country templates for you to choose from. There is a blank template provided if a student chooses a country that is not included in this set.
Below is a photograph of what the individual student templates look like when they are assembled together in a group of 8 to form a wheel shape. This wheel measures 16 inches by 16 inches.
This Country Wheel Group Project includes 40 different international children carrying their country flags. These can be used as accent pieces on your bulletin board display. I hope that these flag accent pieces help save you time in preparing and decorating your bulletin board display.
Besides using these international children accent pieces for this bulletin board, I am sure that there are other times in your curriculum that you may need displays of country flags.
The matching 5 page display banner that is included in this set is below.
2. The Right Way to Start a Day of School Creative Writing Assignment
I have created a writing assignment based on this book which I have titled: The Right Way to Start A Day of School. This creative writing set contains the following:
directions
idea web
first draft worksheet
final draft black and white worksheet
color final draft worksheet
grading rubric
matching 5 page bulletin board display banner
Below are the teacher directions that are included in this set.
This assignment is a two paragraph essay about school work and how to treat others. Before students begin writing, I have provided an idea web worksheet for students to use to brainstorm their ideas on.
Below you will see an example of the idea web, as well as the grading rubic which has sections for both student self-assessment and teacher assessment.
There is a first draft worksheet for students to begin their writing on. Students should proofread and edit their first drafts before they begin their final drafts.
There are black and white and color final draft writing worksheets to choose from in this The Way to Start a Day lesson plans set.
Below is the matching 5 page display banner that is included in this The Way to Start A Day lesson plans set of resources.
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Welcome to my The Way to Start a New Day Lesson Plans page. In this teaching resource set you will find two different sets of writing resources to use for Byrd Baylor's Caldecott Medal winning picture book.
