Using the “Three-Meal Weather” Lesson
WritingFix has a fabulous (and free-to-use) on-line lesson inspired by Judi and Ron Barrett’s picture book, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Click here to read the lesson’s overview and have access to all its resources.
If you’ve used this lesson with your students, we want to hear:
1) What worked well for you with the lesson; or…
2) What adaptations did you make to have success with your students; or…
3) Anything else you think other teachers would enjoy hearing.
Share your ideas and adaptations by posting your thoughts in the “comment” box below. Thank you in advance for participating in this community.
1 Response to Using the “Three-Meal Weather” Lesson
March 31st, 2008 at 8:58 am
First of all, my students love these books each year I’ve read them and it only made these books so much more fun when using the lesson plans that the Nevada Writing Project has generously provided for educators.
I teach 4th grade and each fall, we are required to instruct students on being healthy and inform them about proper wellness. Since Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs discusses many types of foods, I thought I would adjust this lesson by having my students create a balanced meal while supplementing great use of word choice through adjectives. Students were asked to create three meals that were balanced and included all of the food groups we had been discussing. The writing piece also included skills from English we had been learning as well regarding adjectives.
The writing pieces turned out great. Students had a great time being creative using ideas from the book to enhance their writing. It was great they could also use their knowledge from our Wellness unit included in their writing.
Thanks for the great idea!