A Fabulous Fair Alphabet (in progress) |
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WORD GAME: Find YOUR Fabulous Fair Alphabet
You can take this game card ANYWHERE. Play with words you find at the grocery story, at the ball game, on the city walk, the park picnic—words are everywhere. |
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SAMPLES FROM THE BOOK
You may download any of the artwork samples provided on this page to use for classroom use. The cover art along with two spreads ('Midway Nights' and 'Cotton Candy') along with 'Pigs.' |
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PHOTO SLIDESHOW: How the Book Was Made
The process of making a picture book starts long before a pen or scissors is put to paper. In this slide show, Debra Frasier documents some key days in creating A Fabulous Fair Alphabet.
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LIBRARY STORYTELLING SCRIPT
Children's Librarian Kim Faurot has created and tested her inventive approach to reading an alphabet book at a pajama storytime. The script works through each letter incorporates actions from meeting the horse in Arena and Barn to ordering Cotton Candy for the horse ... the complete Activity Kit includes the storytime script, animals-on-a-stick puppets, barn box theater, and game card (eight pages).
Kim’s supplemental bibliography of Fair books also available. |
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WATCH THE VIDEO!
Follow Debra as she explores the fair and finds some amazing letters and words.
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DOWNLOAD THE SONG
“I Want to Go to the Fair” is available as a free MP3 download until September 6, 2010. After that date, you will find the song on iTunes.
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COLORING SHEETS
Several coloring sheets are available to to color in and create individual memories of the fair. |
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A VIRTUAL VISIT TO THE FAIR
Can't get to a fair? Try this slideshow for a colorful, virtual tour through a fair.
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The Incredible Water Show |
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Would you like to download the entire six page curriculum support kit for The Incredible Water Show? (3.6 Mb)
OR! Print only the pages you would like, as described below.
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Stage your own Incredible Water Show...Two pages of performance notes and ideas. Divide the class into ten scenes and tell the story small, medium, or grand! (2 pages)
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Turn facts into performances with staging ideas, plus great websites for further research. Performance related jobs are included, too. (1 page)
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Includes water vocabulary games, plus a brief author biography and pictures. (1 page)
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Make puppets on a stick! Here is a single page reproducible of the six main characters, plus the dog and cat. Print on paper or card stock, color with markers, just like the book. (1 page)
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Color the entire water cycle in a black & white reprint of Mrs. Page's students performing the hydrocycle! (1 page)
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A very watery bibliography of eight picture books to extend your water studies (2 pages)
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Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster |
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Irresistible Vocabulary Fun...
This word-play bibliography was compiled by word-loving librarian Julie Reimer. It's a great resource for turning kids on to word play and word meaning. (7 pages, 673 Kb)
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Stage Your Own Vocabulary Parade...Three pages of ideas and directions. Perfect classroom or school-wide project. (3 pages)
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Word Games from Miss Alaineus...Vocbulary Swap, Name Nouns, Miscellaneous-isms, and Mrs. Pages' Extra Credit Assignment. (2 pages)
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Art Project directions...Use classroom lined paper to build striped pictures. Or, design costumes for the Mis-characters, or create a scrapbook of past costumes, like Sage's album. (1 page)
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A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake |
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VOCABULARY SHEET
Follows a baker as he collects seasonal ingredients for a birthday cake. Use the vocabulary sheet to highlight words the story introduces. The words are divided into three categories: Earth and Space Words, Seasonal Words, and Cooking Words. Act out all the verbs; draw pictures for the nouns. (1 page) |
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BIRTHDAY BOOKLET
Print, cut, fold, and staple each eight-page booklet and have each child color it and fill in details about her or his name, birth date, months of the year, number of days in a year, seasons, and cake vocabulary. Have the children draw the cakes of their dreams! (2 pages) |
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HOW MANY DAYS TO YOUR BIRTHDAY?
The How Many Days to YOUR Birthday? Map makes the idea of the Earth’s journey around the Sun concrete and visual. Here’s how it works: Find your birthday. Find today. Follow the direction of the arrows and plot how many days before your NEXT cake is due! This project involves map skills (abstraction), counting by 5’s, the months, the seasons with a solstice or an equinox, as well as leap day. (1 page) |
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BOOKMARKS
Distribute bookmarks and have each child add his or her name and the number of years he or she has circled the Sun—with a matching number of candles. Save this activity for birthday celebrations, or use it as a counting review. (1 page) |
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MAKE BAKER HATS
Make baker hats! With three sheets of tissue paper, a band of construction paper, tape, and a large paper clip, create the tall floppy hat that makes everyone think of baking. (1 page). |
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3D PAPER BIRTHDAY CAKES
Build three-dimensional cake display posters for bulletin boards. Using cut-paper collage techniques like the author-illustrator, Debra Frasier; cut construction paper strips and decorate flat “cake layers.” Then watch delight grow when the 3-D effect makes the cake “pop out.” Colored paper, tape, glue, and scissors are needed. Cardboard backing is optional. (1 page) |
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COLORING PAGE
Debra Frasier sends birthday cakes flying through space on her dedication page. This coloring page is many students’ favorite page! Each child can add candles to match her or his age to the center cake. (1 page) |
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PAPER PLATE CAKE CLOCK
With just a few inexpensive supplies you can build a clock with the Sun in the center and revolving "hands" to show where the Earth is now and another to mark your birthday. The distance between the hands indicates how how long it is until your birthday. (1 page)
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DONATE CAKE FOOD SHELF PROJECT
Share the joy of birthday celebrations by decorating bakery cake boxes, then adding cake making supplies:
a cake mix, icing, candles, sprinkles, etc. Deliver the celebration to your foodshelf.
(1 page)
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DREAMCAKES!
DreamCakes! Contest: Send out a call for collaged cakes based on the themes in the book. Use paper, boxes, or even flour and sugar. (1 page)
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Out of the Ocean |
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Out of the Ocean
Where did it come from?
An Essay by Debra Frasier
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Bring the ocean to you! Simple directions for creating a classroom Photo Booth.
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On the Day You Were Born |
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I AM UNIQUE! A cut-paper portrait reproducible. Just add construction paper, scissors and glue.
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On the Day You Were Born, THE PLAY...Stage your own version of this story! Stage directions and prop instructions included in four easy-to-follow pages.
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