Connection: I feel so fortunate to have come across ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox’ in the magical Adrienne Gear‘s ‘We Are All Connected’ workshop back in November. We are just wrapping up an inquiry about the inter-connectedness we have with animals. Have the children engage in some drama activities while wearing their masks. Our last art project was to create a 3D model of the animal using plasticine. We needed to actually study these animals to know if we really were like them and in what ways we were like them.
think about you, and who you are and what animal YOU identify with), so I asked all the children who chose the same animal to put their heads together and write down characteristics of the animal on chart paper. The ones that seemed to engage and offer the greatest inspiration were videos without words attached. My second grade students were so mesmerized by 2017's Blue Spruce nominee Danielle Daniel's book.
It won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and has been selected as one of the New York … It won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and has been selected as one of the New York Public Library’s Best 100 Books for Reading and Sharing. Groups of friends chose the same animal (note for next time …. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Long way from my home Sometimes I wish, I could fly Like a bird up in the sky Oh, sometimes I wish, I could fly Fly like a bird up in the sky Sometimes I wish, I could fly Like a bird up in the sky Little closer to home I decided that the final project would be a movie that all of us would contribute to. We’ve just touched the surface, but it was so fun and I’m so proud of how it flowed and the connections the children made to the animal they thought they were most like. FAST-FIGHTING ANTISEMITISM TOGETHER®. Tolerance, Social & Emotional Learning, Be the first to review “Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox”. and that’s when this little project turned into a longer inquiry.
She was inspired to write Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox to encourage her young son to connect with his Aboriginal roots.
Read more. At this point I started looking for animal fables and folktales in the library, thinking they probably don’t know what characteristics these animals have (duh … these children show such brilliance and understanding in so many areas that I often take for granted that they know much more than they do). Book Related Activities: As a class, brainstorm a list of animals and their positive characteristics. The children are so engaged and just love it, so I’ll probably ask them if they want to learn about their animal’s first year of life once we’re finished reading the story.
It was hard for them, but it was a beginning. We used pipe cleaners and tin foil to create a body and limbs and then covered the pipe cleaners and tinfoil with plasticine. We read it almost nightly!