Title: Harold and the Purple Crayon
Author/illustrator: Crockett Johnson
Copyright: 1955
Summary: Harold has a crayon and an imagination. The adventure that results are entertaining-filled with drama and humor.
This book was very imaginative and we enjoyed doing all of the crafty projects that went along with it!
Language arts, Social Studies
We talked about how this story takes place in Harold's imagination. Lily and Aj enjoyed telling their own stories from their imagination.Since their is no real place to put the story disk on our world map we decided to put it near the map key.
Mathematics-(Estimation, Counting by 5's,)
The kids did a math worksheet. They had to estimate how many windows were in different buildings then count by 5's to determine the corrects answer.
Art-(Creativity, Drawing, Painting, Collage)
Their are so many possibilities for creative art projects this month. We talked a little about what creativity is and how we can be creative.We ended up doing four art projects with this book. The first project we did was a drawing. As I read Harold and the Purple Crayon the kids drew a very large picture to go along with the story. The next project we decided to do was to learn about how crayons are made. Mr Rogers video on u tube was a great way to explore this subject. After we watched the video the kids wanted to sort all of our broken crayons so they could melt them down to make new crayons. Our third project was learning how to paint with primary colors and mixing colors to make secondary colors. The paintings came out great! Last but not least the kids made a collage using purple shapes, construction paper and glue.
Drawing of Harold and the Purple Crayon
Having fun with crayons
Mixing paint and painting pictures
Purple collages
Science-(Moon, Space)
We learned about the phases of the moon by making a book, playing an Oreo matching game and reading two books. We also did flash cards and ate astronaut ice cream!
Oreo Matching Game-
Book we made about the phases of the moon and the two books we read!
Flash cards and astronaut ice cream
More fun- (Baking, Measuring)
We made a blueberry pie and a blueberry smoothie to go along with the purple theme of this book.
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