No Puppies Today Lesson

No Puppies Today by Joanna Cole is a cute book that is great to talk about counting, animals, and character feelings. I taught this lesson in summer school with my kindergarten and first graders.

First, I love to have kids connect somehow to the book. For this one my kids got to tell what animals they have at home. Then we read the book and predicted which animal she would get next, roared like lions, talked about the word bison, counted, and added. 

Once we were done with the book, they got a paper to draw any pet they wanted to take home. Kindergarten got a blank paper and I wrote the name of their animal at the top. First graders got a traditional writing page with a blank space for a drawing and lines for them to write a sentence. 

The last part of the lesson is to pair another book and this one perfectly paired with a non-fiction on animals. We happen to have a set of non-fiction books on baby animals in the library so that's what we read aloud to wrap things up.