Three Children Literature Books(3)

Elmer by David McKee: This is a book about an elephant named Elmer. He wasn't a normal colored gray elephant. He was a very different elephant from all the others. He was a very colorful elephant. Elmer liked to play jokes and it was always about him. He wanted to be the same like all the others and he was able to get a hold of some berries and got into the color gray. When he showed up all the same as all the elephants know one noticed him but when it rained the color came off and he was back to normal. His elephant friends made a tradition every year where they all colored themselves a different color, made a parade and the only gray one was of course Elmer. Behind the story, I believe that you don't change for know one, you are you and that's how everyone knows you.
I think that this could be taught in the art area. I would have the children draw and elephant of their own and I would have them color their own elephant with any color they would like and post them up in the walls as their decoration of art work.
Oliver Button Is a Sissy by Tomie de Paola: This is a book about a young boy named Oliver Button. The kids at school and his father would call him sissy. They called Oliver that because he was a type of boy, who liked to do other things like dance, walk through the woods, read, and draw pictures. Oliver entered a talent show where Oliver calls it exercise and at school the boys wrote on the bathroom walls "Oliver Button Is a Sissy." He didn't win the contest but at the end he saw that someone erased sissy and put a star.
I would do an activity during circle time and put it under literacy, make a chart and have the children think about what there favorite thing to do and make a list to see how everyone is different on their likes and dislikes.
The Case Of the Hungry Stranger by Crosby Bonsall: The book is about four boys that were named Wizard, Tubby, Skinny, and Snitch. Wizard was the main character where he knew a lot. The lady next door comes to the boys and ask them who ate a blueberry pie because she baked two of them and one was eaten up. The boys had no clue so they started investigating who could have eaten the pie. In the end they find out that the dog had eaten up the pie and they told Mrs. Meech about it. Since the boys found out who had eaten the pie she gave the boys the other pie and problem was solved.
I would do an activity during circle time and put it under literacy, make a KWL chart where children can write down what they know, what they want to know and what they have learned.