It's that time of the year again where you have to teach your little kiddos how to wait...Waiting is so hard. I know. Most teachers start the year using read aloud books to target specific skills and behaviors they are teaching that day or week. If you are looking for a book about teaching patience (while also sprinkling in a little common core standards) say no more.
Steve Antony, does a great job in this story to target one simple message. Waiting is hard but worth it in the end.
How I used this in my Classroom
Every year I start off with specific read aloud books that target the following skills...Blurting out, Respect, Diversity, Patience, and Kindness. This book is one of the newest ones I have read in that first month of school to target waiting your turn to talk, play, share or even waiting for your turn to line up.
Day 1:
After discussing elements from our story such as characters, sequencing of events, problem solution I can pick which worksheet from this activity I want to use to go with that discussion.
Usually I would pick sequencing of events to work on first as a "We Do" activity and I would order the characters as we are discussing as a class.
Next I will have students go and work on that by themselves. If they finish the sequencing worksheet early I will have them work on the "Design your own donut flavor" as an early finisher activity. That is something they can do independently and is fun because they can color and be creative.
Day 2:
on the second day I like to do a picture walk of the story with the class and then ask them if they can make a Text to Self Connection. I say, "is there a time you have had to wait for something?" We have about a 10 minute discussion while I record responses on a large chart paper so students can then pull from the vocabulary list and idea wall. This is modeling the brainstorming part of the writing process. While I am writing and brainstorming I will explicitly say and tell the class that I am writing down my ideas so we can use these to help us write. We then discuss what a sentence is and I tell the class they will write their own sentence using the sentence helper on their worksheet.
Day 3:
On the third day we are still reviewing and sharing ideas of a time we had to wait for something. By this day you can select any of the extra phonics worksheets to use as a review, practice or quick informative assessment on beginning sounds for letters "d" and "p".
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