Author Overview: H.A. Rey 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.

Curricular Competencies

Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing):● Engage actively as listeners, viewers and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity and community.● Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding. What is God’s perspective?● Use play and other creative means to discover foundational concepts of print, oral, and visual texts.● Begin to use language to identify, create, and express ideas, feelings, opinions, and preferences.● Use age-appropriate reading, listening, and viewing behaviors and strategies to make meaning from texts● Begin to use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning.● Recognize the importance of story in personal, family, and community identity.● Create stories and other age-appropriate texts to deepen awareness of self, family, and community, eternal family● Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning.

Create and Communicate (writing, speaking):● Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes and audiences.

Cross-Curricular (BC) Competencies Links:

Science:● Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world● Take part in caring for self, family, classroom and school through personal approaches● Transfer and apply learning to new situations● Share observations and ideas orally

Arts Education:● Explore elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and techniques of the arts● Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play● Observe and share how artists (dancers, actors, musicians, and visual artists) use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and

techniques● Develop processes and technical skills in a variety of art forms to nurture motivation, development, and imagination● Interpret how symbols are used through the arts● Express feelings, ideas, stories, observations, and experiences through the arts● Describe and respond to works of art

Health:● Identify and describe a variety of unsafe and/or uncomfortable situations● Develop and demonstrate respectful behaviour when participating in activities with others● Identify caring behaviours among classmates and within families● Identify and describe practices that promote mental well-being● Identify and describe feelings and worries● Identify personal skills, interests, and preferences

Socials:● Recognize causes and consequences of events, decisions, or developments in their lives.● Acknowledge different perspectives on people, places, issues, or events in their lives.● Identify fair and unfair aspects of events, decisions, or actions in their lives and consider appropriate courses of action.

Career:● Identify and appreciate their personal attributes, skills, interests, and accomplishment● Recognize the importance of positive relationships in their lives● Share ideas, information, personal feelings, and knowledge with others● Work respectfully and constructively with others to achieve common goals

Title/Topic Content/Strategies/Methods Assessment Strategies/Methods

Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys ● Curious George appears in this book as one of a number of monkeys who are friends with Cecily G., a giraffe. A

great book to start with and just enjoy the story.Characters in the booksCurious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat

● Introduce the main characters. Can compare and contrast

● Good way to talk about the basics of a story.● Drawing: step-by-step drawing of characters. We do this

3 times so students see that their drawing gets better as they do it more than once. No artist “gets it right” the first time. All the attempts are put on display with the best one highlighted.

Curious GeorgeCurious George Takes a JobCurious George Rides a BikeCurious George Gets a MedalCurious George Goes to the HospitalAnd many many more stories that have been adapted from the T.V. show.

● Start with “Curious George” as this is the story where he is captured by the Man with the Yellow Hat and brought from the jungle to the city.

● Lots of cute animated stories about Curious George on You Tube.

● Journal about any of the situations that George finds

himself in. What is the problem and the solution?

● There are titles that can easily be connected to family, health or safety themes.

● In “Curious George Rides a Bike” He makes paper boats, this is fun to do, decorate and float.

Curious George Learns the Alphabet

● This fun ABC book has illustrations that are in the shape of the letter. You can cut out large letters for each child (perhaps the first letter of their name) and have them

turn their letter into an animal or item.

Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World

● A nice story that can stand on its own or tie into a penguin unit. There are numerous art, math, science and language ideas if you wish to do a mini or larger penguin

unit.

Author Biography: List of Books:

https://sites.google.com/site/stephaniegilbert217/home/biography

Hans Augusto Rey was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1898. As a child, he spent much of his free time in that city's famous Hagenbeck Zoo drawing animals. After serving in the army during World War I, he studied philology and natural science at the University of Hamburg. He then married Margret Rey and they moved to Montmartre for four years. The manuscript for the first Curious George books was one of the few items the Reys carried with them on their bicycles when they escaped from Paris in 1940. Eventually, they made their way to the United States, and Curious George was published in 1941.

Cecily G. and the Nine MonkeysCurious GeorgeCurious George Takes a JobCurious George Rides a BikeCurious George Gets a MedalCurious George Learns the AlphabetCurious George Goes to the HospitalFeed the AnimalsFind the ConstellationsElizabite - Adventures of a Carnivorous PlantHow Do You Get There?Pretzel

The Stars: A New Way to See ThemWhere's My Baby?See the CircusWhiteblack the Penguin Sees the WorldAu Clair de la Lune and other French Nursery Songs (1941)Spotty (1945)Humpty Dumpty and other Mother Goose Songs (©1943 Harper & Brothers)

There are many more “Curious George” books that have been adapted from the T.V. show and movie.