Henrico Library Learning Experience Plan

School Librarian Melissa Gladen- Arthur Ashe Jr. ElementaryLesson Title Pete the Cat: Wheels on the BusGrade Level KindergartenContent Area Language Arts/ ArtAASL Standard(s)

3. Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society.4. Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.

Indicator(s) 4.1.1- Read, view, and listen for pleasure and personal growth.3.1.3- Use writing and speaking skill to communicate new understandings effectively.3.1.2- Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners.

Benchmark(s) 4.1.1-Read, view and listen to a variety of fiction and nonfiction for enjoyment and information.3.1.3-Use a variety of ways through art, movement, music and oral and written language to present information and main ideas; use oral and written language in a variety of format.3.1.2-Respect rules and procedures as responsible library users. Shows respect for the ideas of others.

Virginia SOL(s) EnglishK.1 a) Listen to a variety of literary forms, including stories and poems. b) Participate in choral speaking and recite short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated word order patterns.K.3 c) Begin to follow implicit rules for conversation, including taking turns and staying on topic. g) Follow one-step and two-step directions.

Timeframe 1 classAssessment Observe students listening to read aloud.

Observe students participating in singing of choral parts after teacher lead-in. Students will have a fingerprint cat when finished with creating their artwork and following directions.

Product Description

Previous to this lesson, students listened to and sang along with Pete the Cat and his book “Rocking In His School Shoes”. This lesson, they will sing along with Pete’s “The Wheels On the Bus”, an altered version of the orignial Wheels on the Bus song that many will be familiar with. After the read aloud, they will use their fingerprints to make their own cat to ride on Pete’s bus. The fingerprint art is in the style of artist Ed Emberley.

Lesson Procedure

To prepare for the lesson: Use bus clipart to create a long bus for each class, and cut out windows- laminate if you would like to use for next year.

1. Teacher asks students if they know the song, “The Wheels On The Bus”. Sing a little for the students.

2. Show first page of flipbook. Discuss how Pete may have changed the song a little, and how they need to listen closely to what you read/sing.

Henrico Library Learning Experience Plan

3. Teacher reads Pete the Cat: Wheels on the Bus as a read along.4. Students participate chorally after the teacher does the first line of each

page’s lead-in. will listen to Pete the Cat: Wheels on the Bus and sing along after the teacher has given the lead-in line.

5. Use flipbook to lead the next part of the lesson. Students will be creating themselves as cats on Pete’s bus using fingerprint art in the style of Ed Emberley.

6. Using the flip book, ask students what was added to each fingerprint as it goes.

7. Students will remain at tables, looking at books to choose for check-out (procedures were discussed last time, and expectations are repeated)

8. While students are looking at books on the table to choose for check-out, students will be called back to make a fingerprint with the librarian. Librarian writes student’s name on the back of a small square that the student’s fingerprint will go on the front of.

9. Once lesson is completed, librarian will add catprints to windows of bus and display. Examples are in the flipbook.

Ideas: Hang in the hallway for back-to-school night, and see if parent’s can choose their child’s cat. (Teachers also created a fingerprint cat as the driver.)

Extension: Later in the year, we will revisit bus drivers as an occupation, and students will brainstorm questions they would like to ask a bus driver. We will try to interview a bus driver at that time- using video- and hopefully on a bus!!

Henrico Library Learning Experience Plan

Pete the Cat

and the

Kindergarteners

rocked the Library!

Henrico Library Learning Experience Plan

Students listened to and sang along with Pete the Cat and his books “Rocking In His School Shoes” and “The Wheels On the Bus”. After, they used their fingerprints to make their own cat to ride on Pete’s bus. The fingerprint art is in the style of artist Ed Emberley.

VA SOL (English Standards)

K.1a) Listen to a variety of literary forms, including stories and poems.

b) Participate in choral speaking and recite short poems, rhymes, songs,

and stories with repeated word order patterns.

K.3c) Begin to follow implicit rules for conversation, including taking turns

and staying on topic.

g) Follow one-step and two-step directions.

AASL (Library Standards)

4.1.1 Read, View and listen to a variety of fiction and nonfiction for

enjoyment and information.

3.1.3 Use a variety of ways through art, movement, music and oral and

written language to present information and main ideas; use oral and

written language in a variety of format.

3.1.2 Respect rules and procedures as responsible library users. Shows

respect for the ideas of others.

Henrico Library Learning Experience Plan

Can you guess your child’s catprint?

Flip the bus up to check the name on the back of the cat-

print.Please excuse the misspelling of names-Pete(!) was in charge of that job.

Flip bus up to see if you chose the correct ‘cat-print’ as your child’s!