Interest Level Grades K - 2 Genre: Comedy and Humor
Subject: Fish and Marine Life, Confronting and Resolving Fears, Friends and Friendship
The Shark Who Was Afraid of Everything! Is a very cute children’s book. It would be a good book to read aloud to a large group of children or even just alone right before bed time.
The Shark Who Was Afraid of Everything! Is a story about Sharkie the shark who was literally afraid of everything that surrounded him. He was afraid of whales, ships, seals, electric eels, the dark, etc. His brothers and sisters would always tease him about him being scared, “What good is a shark who’s always scared?” they would say. So Sharkie decided to run away. Lily the fish saw that Sharkie was leaving so she followed him. They played and played for hours, until they realized they were lost. Lily was really scared and Sharkie had to be the leader and comfort Lily. Sharkie finally lead them home and they were safe!!!
This book is a really good book because everyone is afraid of something and this book talks about confronting and resolving those fears. It also talks about friends and friendship which is something kids should talk about since they are developing friendships at such a young age.
In the classroom this would be a fantastic book to read when you’re talking about the ocean, sharks, helping others, overcoming your fears, and even when talking about the “Sh” letter combination because this book has a lot of that.
One activity that you can do in class after reading this book is that you can have a discussion with the kids about being afraid of things. You could ask the kids what they are afraid of and what they personally do when they are feeling afraid. You could also have an art project and have them paint with water colors things that they are afraid of, since the illustrations in the book are really nice and colorful. After they are done painting they can go around and share what their afraid of.
I love that you found a book about sharks. I love sharks! I scary myself silly with shark week and thought it was hilarious that the book is about a shark that is afraid of everything. I like the idea of teaching the "sh" sound with this book because as soon-to-be teachers we sometimes miss the most obvious lesson. Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a clever idea for a book. So many children (and some adults!) have real fears. This a great way to address them. I wonder since we talked about illustrations this week how the illustrations in this book could help kids as well?
ReplyDeleteThis book was very cute! It reminded me a lot of finding nemo which obviously is awesome! I agree that this book is great to talk to little kids about being afraid. You could make the lesson about how big kids are afraid of things too and its nothing to be ashamed of!
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