A Week with Kevin Henkes

Kevin Henkes is one of our favorite first grade authors!  This week, we read many of his books, but we especially enjoyed reading Chrysanthemum!  With our current Animal Fantasy genre study underway, we talked all about how the mouse character, Chrysanthemum, thinks and acts like a human. Then we added our ideas to this poster:

Next, we read Wemberly Worried.  Wemberly is also a mouse and she worries about EVERYTHING! She worries about the trees, noises in her house, her doll Petal, but she ESPECIALLY worries about school.  After reading, we made text-to-self connections by writing some things that we worry about too.

To learn more about Kevin Henkes and his books, visit his website and explore from home! Click below:

Common Core State Standards: 

RL.1.7.: Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

A Week with Kevin Henkes

Adding character traits to our character map

It was a busy week in 1-Thomson!  The children are settling into the routines of first grade and there is wonderful learning happening!

This week, we studied one of my FAVORITE authors and illustrators-Kevin Henkes (check out his website-http://www.kevinhenkes.com/)!  We read several of his popular stories such as "Chrysanthemum", "Wemberly Worried", "Sheila Rae, the Brave", and "Lilly's Big Day" to name a few.  The children enjoyed discussing and comparing the character traits of Wemberly, Sheila Rae, and Chrysanthemum while practicing their retells of the beginning, middle, and end.


(CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3: Describe
characters, settings, and major events in a
story, using key details)
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