{"id":69,"date":"2020-04-27T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/?p=69"},"modified":"2020-04-27T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:44:13","slug":"favourite-books-alexander-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/2020\/04\/27\/favourite-books-alexander-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite Books: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a new parent, I rediscovered &#8220;Alexander&#8230;&#8221; when I was looking for books to read to my first-born child. I was quick to discover that many of the books my children enjoyed were great for classroom learning.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/files\/2020\/04\/81Pqy-W0lpL-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/files\/2020\/04\/81Pqy-W0lpL-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/files\/2020\/04\/81Pqy-W0lpL-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/files\/2020\/04\/81Pqy-W0lpL-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/files\/2020\/04\/81Pqy-W0lpL-1536x1146.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/files\/2020\/04\/81Pqy-W0lpL.jpg 1876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I was a primary teacher, I embraced it as one of my go-to books for short novel studies.\u00a0 My students enjoyed it as much as my children did. I find it&#8217;s a book that young children can connect to because they can related to Alexander&#8217;s experiences and feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Classroom topics and activities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w6HhKlpp7ok\">Read Aloud 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IWLYGbYOoRs\">Read Aloud 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teacherspayteachers.com\/Product\/Readers-Theater-Alexander-and-the-Terrible-Horrible-No-Good-Very-Bad-Day-4422863\">Readers Theatre<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Extension: Use it as a script for a school performance (Ex. assembly).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachingchildrenphilosophy.org\/BookModule\/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay\">Philosophy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/socialwork\/research\/sel_curr\/alexander_teacher.pdf\">Art: Create Thinking Caps<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;This art activity is a way to engage students in using creativity and imagination to recognize self-talk and to learn how thoughts are connected to feelings and actions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aroundthekampfire.com\/2016\/03\/cause-and-effect-with-alexander-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day.html\">Cause and Effect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepathway2success.com\/100-read-alouds-to-teach-social-emotional-learning-skills\/\">Social Emotional Learning: Pathways 2 Success<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Judith Viorst&#8217;s &#8220;Alexander&#8221; series are great for kids and teachers. Other books in the series address saving &amp; spending money, challenges of moving, and making good choices. I can&#8217;t recommend them enough.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Viorst based the book on her actual son Alexander. If you want to know what happened to him, click here: Rachel Donadio &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/25\/garden\/25viorst.html\">Alexander, Mom, and the Very Messy Stay<\/a> (New York Time) (October 25, 2007).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a new parent, I rediscovered &#8220;Alexander&#8230;&#8221; when I was looking for books to read to my first-born child. I was quick to discover that many of the books my children enjoyed were great for classroom learning. When I was a primary teacher, I embraced it as one of my go-to books for short novel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/2020\/04\/27\/favourite-books-alexander-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favourite Books: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-novel-study","category-read-aloud","category-readers-theatre","category-social-emotional-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cjanicas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}