The Day The Crayons Quit

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Mr. Daywalt’s text blends with Mr. Jeffers’s illustrations to make a picture book that will have children clamoring for more crayon adventures.”—The Wall Street Journal The students will need to have completed two prior lessons relating to the storybook – The Day the Crayons Quit The students will be able to use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make Art work (ACAVAM107) (ACARA, 2017). Duncan has not used the pink crayon all year. Why do the children think this is? Asking them whether pink crayon is right to say that Duncan thinks pink is a ‘girl’s colour’ can create some interesting debate. Where else have the children seen pink being associated with girls?

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The teacher asks the students to complete a reflective activity -think about what they learnt most during this lesson and the teacher will ask them to state it out verbally. The teacher places a butcher paper on the whiteboard and writes the heading What we learnt….in these three lessons – prior, current and new…and writes down the student’s key words and students names / & visual image with a text bubble and then adds them to the display board. Students will draw themselves to add to the text bubble. The teacher fills in the table with the students answers and reasons and also places a visual image next to the written context. Created open discussions about various topics connecting to the storybook – The Day the Crayons Quit

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The students perform their shared activity – five students- while maximum of two questions from different students to be asked to each of the five students completing their shared activity. All the students will create a brainstorming and mind mapping document prior to writing their letters. When can people stop doing things that other people want them to do? Can you think of some examples of jobs that are okay to quit and jobs that are not? Or count on them for doing? Is there a difference? The students have created a large card board mail box from a prior Art lesson which the teacher has decided to use for this lesson. Despite my few reservations, I do highly recommend the book, either for read aloud (one to one or for groups) and for independent readers too, if their reading skills are sufficiently advanced to be able to read slightly atypically written letters in various colors.

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Both yellow and orange crayon think they are the colour of the sun – which one do the children think is correct? Do they have any alternative solutions to saying one crayon is ‘right’ and another is ‘wrong’? This lesson is connected to the context of Visual Art and the storybook – The Day the Crayons Quit. This delightful children’s book tells the story of Duncan, a little boy, who opens his box of crayons to find a pile of letters telling him - they've quit! The teacher then places the letter into the red postal box that the students created in their Art class.Refers to the big book – The Day the Crayons Quit which is placed on the whiteboard ledge and using the hand pointer as a reference guide and to ensure the books images and contents are all in clear view of all the students.