Literacy and Art: The Rainbow Fish

February 5, 2009 by beth 2 Comments

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister is a wonderful tale with a moral that isn’t too deep even for the smallest of children to understand. The story belongs to a very vain fish who discovers how rewarding it is to share with others. Another great read aloud for your class or at bedtime.

Once you are finished reading the book, you can create your own Rainbow Fish to display!

Picture courtesy of Homeschooling Fun.

Looking for more Fish themed crafts? Check these out

Kids Craft: Paper Plate Fish — CraftBits.com

Plushie – Dory’s Fish Friends — CraftBits.com

Go Fish In A Tin Game — CraftBits.com

Paper Plate Fish Tank — CraftBits.com

Jellyfish Craft — CraftBits.com

CD Fish — CraftBits.com

Clay Fish Magnets — CraftBits.com

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Rose says
February 6, 2009 at 4:05 pm
i actually read this gorgeous colored children’s book (it’s in most libraries) and the book has many an illustration that would lend itself to a beautiful and / or meaningful art project.
it’s a creative mind to translate the book into school projects. good on ya!
Marlena Hansen says
April 17, 2010 at 11:40 am
I have used this story line of Rainbow fish in art projects for my k-1 grade students. I have done this project twice and so far have done it different the two times. The first time we used crayon resist and students listened while I read and show the images from the book. We later created our own underwater Rainbow fish painting. I used liquid brillant watercolors, pencils, white construction paper,and sharpie marker. The students were mesmorized by the effects of using a white crayon to resist areas of their paintings.watching the white crayon become “invisible” in application. The impact was when they used tropical, brilliant liguid watercolors to paint over the crayon revealing the images written with the white craon. I juat happened to have the principle in the room when it oocured. It wasn’t easy prying the little fingers away from their creations so that I could display them for all to see!

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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