Author Overview: Frank Asch Duration: 6-8 lessons Grade: K

CORE COMPETENCIES

LANGUAGE ARTS BIG IDEAS

1: Language and stories can be a source of creativity and

joy.

2: God’s Word helps us learn about ourselves and

our families.

3: Stories can be told through pictures and

words.

4: Everyone can be a reader

and can create stories.

5: God’s Word is the Ultimate Love Story.

Everyone has a unique story.

6: Playing with language helps us discover how language works.

7: Listening and speaking builds our understanding and helps us

learn.

Language Arts Curricular Competencies

Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)• Use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning• Use developmentally appropriate reading, listening, and viewing strategies to make meaning• Explore foundational concepts of print, oral, and visual texts• Engage actively as listeners, viewers, and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity, and community• Recognize the importance of story in personal, family, and community identity• Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to stories and other texts to make meaning• Recognize the structure of story

Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)• Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding• Use language to identify, create, and share ideas, feelings, opinions, and preferences• Create stories and other texts to deepen awareness of self, family, and community• Plan and create stories and other texts for different purposes and audiences• Explore oral storytelling processes

Cross-Curricular (BC) Competencies Links:

Science: • Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world • Observe objects and events in familiar contexts • Ask simple questions about familiar objects and events • Make exploratory observations using their senses • Safely manipulate materials • Make simple measurements using non-standard units • Experience and interpret the local environment • Discuss observations • Transfer and apply learning to new situation

● Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving· Share observations and ideas orally· Express and reflect on personal experiences of placeADST· Identify needs and opportunities for designing, through exploration· Generate ideas from their experiences and interests· Add to others’ ideas· Choose an idea to pursue

· Choose tools and materials· Make a product using known procedures or through modelling of others· Use trial and error to make changes, solve problems, or incorporate new ideas from self or others· Decide on how and with whom to share their product· Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of their design solutions· Use materials, tools, and technologies in a safe manner in both physical and digital environments· Develop their skills and add new ones through play and collaborative work· Explore the use of simple, available tools and technologies to extend their capabilitiesArt:· Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play· Explore artistic expressions of themselves and community through creative processes· Develop processes and technical skills in a variety of art forms to nurture motivation, development, and imagination· Reflect on creative processes and make connections to other experiences· Express feelings, ideas, stories, observations, and experiences through the arts· Describe and respond to works of art· Experience, document and share creative works in a variety of waysMath:· Use reasoning to explore and make connections· Estimate reasonably· Develop, demonstrate, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry, and problem solving· Visualize to explore mathematical concepts· Develop and use multiple strategies to engage in problem solving· Use mathematical vocabulary and language to contribute to mathematical discussions· Represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms· Reflect on mathematical thinking· Connect mathematical concepts to each other and to other areas and personal interestsHealth:· Develop and demonstrate respectful behaviour when participating in activities with others· Identify caring behaviours among classmates and within families· Identify personal skills, interests and preferences· Identify and describe feelings and worriesSocials:· Acknowledge different perspectives on people, places, issues, or events in their lives (perspective)

Title Teaching Strategies/Methods Assessment Strategies/Methods

MooncakeMoongame

● Bake a white cake and add green food colouring as a snack

● Mix thawed icecream with lemonade. Scoop into cupcake liners, freeze overnight. Just before serving add teddy graham.

● Bring in “junk” - kleenex boxes, paper towel rolls, small containers/cartons. Design and build own

rocket ship

● Using Ritz crackers and cheesespread, bite and try to make different moonshapes

● Journals: “hide” a yellow moon in a creative drawing

● Glue the following poem onto black construction paper. Use aluminum foil to cut out different

moonshapes and glue onto black paper.

I’m the moon and I play a game.I don’t always look the same.Sometimes I’m round, a silver sphere,Sometimes just half of me seems to be here.Sometimes I’m a crescent, shaped like a smile,Sometimes I surprise you and hide for awhile.Look up in the sky for my friendly light.What shape will I have when you see me tonight?

● Bulliten Board/journals:● Build rocket ship with paper square letters of names

(see illustration)

● Match pattern blocks to rocketship designs

Happy Birthday, Moon ● Discuss friendships, common interests. Encourage

children to talk about the things they have in common with their friends (shared interests, enjoying/ laughing/feeling sad about the same things)are

important parts of friendship.● When re-reading the story, have students pretend to

be the moon and echo bear’s words● Cut out skinny rectangle and fatter larger rectangle.

Glue onto construction paper to make a hat, and decorate.

● Build a telescope using paper towel rolls or Pringles containers, and decorate with glitter, stickers,

construction paper, tissue paper

● Any of the moon books lend themselves naturally to science lessons about the moon

Popcorn ● Journals - what could you do with a house (room) full

of popcorn?● Take popcorn and shake with dry tempera to color.

Glue onto black paper and make a collage● Estimate how much popcorn would fit in Bear’s house

(using a template of his house). Fill the template with real popcorn and count it to check estimates. Eat the

popcorn in Bear’s house. ● Pop and eat hot buttered popcorn while enjoying a

Frank Asch book on youtube

● Sensory Bin - use scoops, funnels and other containers to explore, measure and compare volumes

Sandcake ● Draw a simple outline of a cake. Paint on a thin layer of white glue and sprinkle sand overtop to create your own sand cake.

● Design a sandcastle. Use Elmer’s glue for outline. Sprinkle with sand and add details.

● Sensory Bin - use small beach animals, containers and

scoops to explore, compare and measure

Author Biography: List of Books:

Bio:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/75172.Frank_Asch

Bornin Somerville, New Jersey, The United StatesAugust 06, 1946Websitehttp://www.frankasch.comGenre

The Lending ZooI Met a PenguinPizzaPopcornSandcakeBread and HoneyMilk and CookiesMoonbear’s ShadowMoonbear’s Pet

Children's BooksFrank Asch is an American children's writer, best known for his

Moonbear picture books.

Asch published his first picture book, George's Store, in 1968. The

following year he graduated from Cooper Union with a BFA. Since

then he has taught at a public school in India, as well as at a

Montessori school in the United States, conducted numerous creative

workshops for children. He has written over 60 books, including

Turtle Tale, Mooncake, I Can Blink and Happy Birthday Moon. In

1989 he wrote Here Comes the Cat! in collaboration with Vladimir

Vagin. The book was awarded the Russian National Book Award and

was considered the first Russian-American collaboration on a

children's book.

Asch lived in Somerville, New Jersey where he and his wife home-

schooled their son Devin.

He currently lives in Vermont with his wife, Jan.

Moonbear’s DreamMooncakeMoonbear’s BargainMoonbear’s SunriseJust like DaddyMoonbear’s SkyfireMoondanceMoongameHappy Birthday, MoonHere Comes the Cat!Happy Birthday, Big Bad Wolf!Mrs. Morlowe’s MiceMr. Maxwell’s MouseMonsieur Saguette and his BaguetteMonkey FaceBig Fish , Little FishBaby Bear’s first NestPancakes in PajamasMoon for SaleI can RoarThe Lending ZooThe Earth and IWaterThe Last PuppyGoodbye, HouseThe Sun is my Favorite StarGoodnight, HorseyLike a Windy DayGoodnight, Baby BearBarnyard LullabyZiggy Piggy and the Three Little Pigs