Students can colour in some of their picture, but not the whole picture. Kindergarten PLOs you could use in Language Arts:Ī2 – engage in speaking and listening activities to share ideas about pictures, stories, information text, and experiences.ī6 – engage in discussions and create representations after reading and viewing to reflect on the text to confirm meaning.Ĭ1 – create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning.Ĭan you feel like a colour? Can you feel more than one colour in a day, or even at the same time? Let’s experiment with colours! On a piece of white paper, students draw lines, patterns, or people (you can give a template of the people from My Many Colored Days). Perhaps the text could say “When I feel Red I’m _.” instead of having another line of “_ and _” If your students are able to write more, it is highly encouraged! Complete the book over a number of days and perhaps include it in your home reading program when they are finished so they can read it to their families. You could do a book simliar to the one on the side, but the writing might be too difficult for Kindergarten. I growl at every cloud.” Some students with difficulty expressing emotion (I’m happy, I’m not having a good day) could communicate by relating their feelings to colours.

I picked it up, lapped it up, and the ideas started flowing!Įxpressing how one feels is difficult at any age, but adding colours to express what each feeling could mean: “Then comes a Yellow Day. I had never heard of this book until I stumbled across it at the library while looking for other books as resources for this site. Seuss died in 1991 and this amazing book was published posthumously in 1996 (thank you Wikepedia).

Dr seuss colors feelings