Craft Lesson 4: My Many Colored Days

My Many Colored Days

Grade Level Third: TEKS focusing on Reading Literacy: analyzing characters feelings and capturing a sense of audience. Mathematics: fractions, multiplying, geometric, and measurement. Health: nutrients and food pyramid.

Discussion:
My Many Colored Days book teaches emotions and art. Children need to know the importance of controlling emotions and the appreciation of art work. I would discuss how a children's board book can be used for creative thoughts and ideas at all levels even though it is a simple children's board book. I would incorporate the curriculum of several subjects by using Dr. Seuss My Many Colored Days.

How to Teach It:
I would start off by asking different types of emotions that the students could think of. After hearing them, we would read the book and see if the book covered all the emotions. Then, we could continue to think of other emotions that might have not been discussed in the book.

Next, introduce a half of a day project that would incorporate reading, mathematics, health, and art. The project would to design your own cereal box with a creative artwork like My Many Colored Days. The students may develop their own cereal brand name and design their own cereal box cereal representative (like the Bee off of Honey-Nut-Cheerios.) The cereal box representative can express their brands emotions. The students would have to choose a target audience for your cereal. Also, they would do the artwork to display brand personality of your cereal. They can decorate the back with a subject line topic if it is an adult cereal or games if it's a children's cereal. They would then determine the nutritional facts and serving size that their private label cereal would be.

After deciding the design of the cereal box they will construct a cereal box by using the knowledge of geometric shapes and put the designs in a final hand designed cereal box.

I would display the unique boxes throughout the room and allow the kids to vote on their favorite peer's cereal box. The prize for the winner could be a free homework pass or a free day. Then, you will have the cereal box artwork to decorate the classroom with and then the students will have an artwork that they created to bring home.