The Rainbow Fish

It has been a great start to the school year. My class is absolutely adorable and wonderful. I always begin the year with the "Friendship" theme. We begin each day, all year, with "The Friendship Rap" and talk about how to be a friend each day at circle time. One of my very favorite friendship stories is The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. The students love the story and it teaches a great lesson. An important reading skill that we are working on at the beginning of second grade is "retelling" - beginning, middle and end. As a reading/writing activity, the student wrote a summary of the story and what lesson the Rainbow Fish learned.

I put the Rainbow Fish craft at a center. First, the students painted the Rainbow Fish with watercolors.

They had so much fun putting the tissue squares on the Rainbow Fish. We used some squares of foil for the beautiful, shiny scales.

One of my centers all year is "Text-talk". We used the Rainbow Fish book and the Text Talk cards (for any literature story). It is on my next summer to-do list to make text talk cards specifically for the Rainbow Fish book, but for now these worked just fine!

The most exciting and fun Rainbow Fish activity is making the Rainbow Fish bracelets. When I tell the students that we are making Rainbow Fish bracelets, they all want different colored beads and I tell them that I am sorry but these are the only beads that I have.

Yes, we go to recess soon after that. You can imagine the excitement when their bracelets suddenly become the colorful Rainbow Fish bracelets of their dreams. SO MUCH FUN!

Speaking of school, off to grade papers. Blogging is so much more fun. Have a great weekend.
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