Electronic
Book Contest 2000 During the month of August our K-1 multi age classroom made class books on colors and shapes. The first book we made was entitled "The Red Book". It was an integrated lesson combining art, language arts lesson on rhyming words, reading, and gross motor right and left hands. The URL number for this ishttp://www.kamalii.k12.hi.us/EBC2000/red_1.HTM
The Kindergarten students painted their hands red with tempera paint and hand printed their hands all over a white construction paper. Each kindergarten student had one page in the class book. Then the first grade Ohana buddy and their kindergarten buddy together thought of a rhyming words and drew pictures of them on 3x5 white index cards. These pictures were then glued on top of the red hand prints.
The first graders dictated the words to me and I typed them on the computer and printed them out and they glued the sentence strips to the bottom of the page.
This book took three days to complete.
After it was finished I laminated it and bound it together, gluing pages back to back and bound it with a heavy duty stapler and clear tape. It was then checked out daily with students to take home and read to their parents.
For the Electronic Book Contest the students voted on which books we had made and which ones were their favorite, overwhelmingly they choose their first class book "The Red Book".
This was a great cooperative class book and we went on to make a blue and a yellow book using the same lesson plan of blue hand prints or yellow hand prints with other rhyming sentence patterns. This very early in the year taught the kindergarten students the concepts of print: front cover, back cover, title, author and illustrator. It also taught them left to right and one to one correspondence of the spoken word to the printed word. Until the end of the year students still check the colors and shapes books out, but the difference now is that they can really read and not just memorize the text!
