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Class Picture Day

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SUMMARY

"When the photographer says 'Cheese!' stick out your tongue," said Amy. When the pictures come back the little girl realizes she is the only one sticking her tongue out! What will she do? How will she be able to take her picture home? --- Conversation Questions---

(1) Tell me what was wrong with the little girl's picture. (Answer) She was the only one sticking her tongue out. (Follow Up) Have you or anyone you know ever done this same thing?

(2) Pretend you are the little girl, would you be mad that no one else went through with sticking their tongues out? (Answer) Any Logical Answer. (Follow Up) Have you ever been dared to do something?

(3) Imagine you were one of the children that told the little girl to stick her tongue out. Would you feel bad because you didn't and she did? (Answer) Any Logical Answer. (Follow Up) Tell me what they should have said to the little girl after realizing she was the only one sticking her tongue out.

(4) Name something the little girl could have said when the children asked her to stick her tongue out. (Answer) Any Logical Answer. (Follow Up) Have you ever had to just say no?

(5) Define "photographer." (Answer) Someone that takes a picture of someone or something. (Follow Up) Have you ever had a photographer take your picture?

(5) Tell me what Amy told Richard and the little girl to do when the photographer says "Cheese". (Answer) To stick out their tongues. (Follow Up) Did anyone stick out their tongues? Who?

(6) After realizing that she was the only one sticking her tongue out what did the little girl to with her picture? (Answer) Threw it in the trash. (Follow Up) Did it stay in the trash?

(8) Remember where the little girl tried to leave it next. (Answer) On the school bus. (Follow Up) Who found it?

(9) Recall the last place she tried to leave it. (Answer) In the dog house. (Follow Up) Did it work?

(10) Tell me what she finally ended up doing with her picture. (Answer) Using a red marker, she drew a tongue on everyone's face so that is looked like everyone was sticking their tongues out. (Follow Up) Tell me what she is going to do next.

Activities

1. Draw a picture of you and your friends sticking their tongues out. Don't forget to label everyone!

2. Pretend you are Amy or Richard. Write an apology letter to the little girl telling her that you are sorry for telling her to stick her tongue out.

3. Imagine you are the teacher of this class. Write about what you would teach the children about manners, how sticking your tongue out in a class picture isn't nice to do.

4. Write the word "Photographer" at the top of a page in your opus. Now try to come up with as many words as you can!

Introduction

1. Write the word "embarrassment" on a piece of paper. Ask them if they know what it means. Discuss it's meaning, and talk about ways a person could get embarrassed. Say, "Today's book is about a little girl that gets embarrassed because of her class picture. We'll read and find out why she feels this way."

2. Have the word "Photographer" written on a piece of paper. Ask them if they know what it means. Have they ever seen one? "Today's story we will read about how a photographer takes a school class picture, but that something is very different with this picture!"

3. Show the children the front of this book. Ask them what it is. Has anyone ever acted goofy in any of your class pictures? What did they do? "Today we are going to read a book about how a class picture turns out when someone acts goofy."

Book Title: Class Picture Day Author: Andrea Buckless Illustrator: Patti Goodnow ISBN: 0-590-37975-5 # of Text Pages: 16 AR: 1.6 LEX: 370 Building Oral Vocabulary 5 smiling 24 leaving 29 frame Prediction Questions 2 Do you think all the children will stick their tongues out? 17 Will she take her picture with her? 26 What do you think she is doing with the red marker?

This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.