Goodnight Moon- by Margaret Wise Brown

Part One

Brown, M. W. (1947). Goodnight Moon. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc.

Genre: Classics, Rhyming Stories, Bedtime Stories
Age/grade level: 5-7 kindergarten and first grade


Part Two

For my first touchstone book, I wanted to take it easy. I thought Goodnight Moon would be a sweet and simple picture book. As I opened the book, the first page was yellow. This to me signifies happiness. The first page is the bedroom and it is full of colors, very strong colors, but then I turn the page and it is black and white. The story then points out things in the room, says goodnight and when I turn the page those items are black and white. This through me for a loop because it started colorful and happy, but then I felt sadness when I saw the black and white pages. As I finished the story, I concluded the black and white signified darkness. I'm not taking the darkness to any emotional level, but just the signification of night time and the yellow pages signify the sun. I think this would be a great tool for kindergarteners and visual aid. As the story says, "In the great green room- There was a telephone- And a red balloon- and a picture of- ..." before I turn the page, I would have my kindergarteners look for a picture of something in the classroom or point out red or green things.

Part Three

This story would be very useful in the class room. The colors and the "things" that fill the room are very recognizable and familiar. I think it is very important to be observant and this book covers that. The entire story is emphasizing on the day ending and the bunny in bed saying goodnight to the things in the bedroom. Although this book is a sweet bedtime story, I think it would be a great story for the end of the day during school time. It would be a nice way to end the day and say good-bye/goodnight to the classroom.

 

 



Part Four

Objective:
Each student will find items in the classroom that are the same items in the story. After the story, the students will then draw their favorite thing they like to wish goodnight or sleep with (stuff animal, mom, dad, siblings, ball, doll, etc.) Then, they will color that item and write "Goodnight _____"

Standards:
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RI/K/1/ - With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RI/K/2/ - With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell with key details of a text.
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RI/K/4/ - With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Outside resources:
http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/goodnight_moon.html
http://homeschoolcreations.com/GoodnightMoonPrintables.html
http://lessonplanspage.com/lawordidpatternsgoodnightmoonk1-htm/