I put an initial on each frog for Milton, Lydia and Rupert. I made the pictures into necklaces – you could also staple them onto a headband. I enlarged frog clipart and ran it off on green construction paper.
I turned the story into a simple script – you don’t actually have to write it out all the time – but I did it for this book and it made reusing it every year very simple. Of course I couldn’t reread every book lots of times, but it was really worthwhile to do!Īfter I read It’s Mine! and we discussed it a bit we acted it out together. I would hear children using the vocabulary from the book, referring to the characters and making connections between that story and others we read later. I found that when I read and reread a story it became part of our classroom culture. I learned this when I began to experiment with Elizabeth Sulzby’s Kindergarten Literature Program that I used at the beginning of the year. But I learned that rereading a story multiple times turns that book into a wonderful teaching tool. There are so many absolutely wonderful books – it has always been a problem for me! I want to read them all to my class – and every year new, wonderful stories are published. Best of all it has clear characters, easy to identify setting, specific problem and resolution and a definite beginning, middle and end – that makes it a great story for retelling! This book fits in so well when you need to have some discussions about sharing and getting along, but it also fits into the science curriculum under air, land and water. It’s Mine is a great example of all of these qualities – it is the story of 3 “quarrelsome” frogs who could not get along – each of them claimed that their own personal space belonged just to themselves – one claimed the air, one claimed the land and one claimed the water. I read lots of his books throughout the year. Leo Lionni’s picture books all contain wonderful stories, extended vocabulary, great illustrations and usually a very pertinent moral lesson.
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