Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall

Title:  Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall

Author: Leo Yerxa

Illustrator:  n/a

ISBN: 

Summary: 

Part creation myth, part father/son initiation story, the book beautifully depicts a journey through the woods as the scene changes from fall to winter.

David Lanz - Before The Last Leaf Falls

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/WhyTheTreesLoseTheirLeaves-Cherokee.html

Rating:

The book is a great way to start a thematic unit on seasons.  With this book and several other resources you could easily integrate this into both social studies and science. For ELA, this could be used as an aide in a poetry unit because of the rhyme in the book. 

AR Information		Lexile Information
Level	4.5	Age range	Not Listed
Quiz Point Value	.5	Book type	Not Listed
Grade Interest Level	K-3	Lexile measure	Not Listed

(The AR and Lexile information is pulled straight from their websites. Arbookfind.com and lexile.com)

 

Curriculum Connections: (These standards are simply the ones I found right off as some I may use for a lesson with the book listed.  I in no way am trying to state these are the only standards that fit this book.)

CCSS

RL.3.2

RI.3.2

W.3.2

SL.3.5

 Boy Least Likely To - The First Snowflake

 Reading:

I would use this book to aide in my poetry unit.  The students would recount the story and determine the main idea. 

Writing and Speaking:

Students could do poem research and use technology to create an audio recording of their poem or musical composition they will create based on seasons. 

 Additional uses:

This could also be integrated into the Science and Social Studies.  The links above are for integrating the arts via different genres of music.

 

Related Internet Resources:

http://www.gobookee.org/last-leaf-teacher-guide/

http://mercury.educ.kent.edu/database/eureka/detail_book.cfm?BooksID=256

http://voices.yahoo.com/science-lesson-plans-fall-animals-ready-6777230.html

http://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html?q=Seasons%3A+Spring%3A+Summer%3A+Winter%3B+Fall%3A+Four+Seasons