Hello, Harvest Moon
By Ralph Fletcher
Illustrated by Kate Kiesler
Book Summary:
Everything is still in the world, in fact so still, that something is just waiting to happen on this night in early Fall. This is how it all begins on the night of the harvest moon and as the moon rises in the sky over the stalks of the corn, a strange sort of "magic" begins to engulf the landscape, touching all the plants, trees and animals. It also wakes up a little girl and her cat, who becomes one of the people to witness this wonderfully round golden moon. All sorts of incredible things seem to be happening in the light of this very special moon, all sorts of tiny miraculous events. It is no ordinary Fall night, as the landscape is brought to life, for example,"Milkweed pods have cracked open,/spilling out spores/like tiny moonlings/floating/up to their mother." The book is written in a poetic manner, with metaphors and similes, create exciting images for the reader's imagination which are complimented with the beautiful illustrations.
Lesson: Fall Harvest Stamp Patterns.
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Lesson Duration: 45 minutes
Standards addressed: Language Arts, Science, Math, & Visual Arts:
Standard: K-1: The student will begin to read and comprehend a variety of literary texts in print and non-print formats.
Standard: K-3: The student will learn to read by applying appropriate skills and strategies.
Indicator: K-3.19: Use prior knowledge and life experiences to construct meaning from texts.
Standard: K-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of seasonal weather changes.
Indicators: K-4.3: Summarize ways that the seasons affect plants and animals.
Standard: K-3: The student will demonstrate through the mathematical processes an
emerging sense of repeating and growing patterns and classification based on attributes.
Indicator: K-3.1: Identify simple growing patterns.
Indicator: K-3.2: Analyze simple repeating and growing relationships to extend patterns.
Standard I: Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques, and Processes Students will:
-Fletcher, Ralph. (2003). Hello, harvest moon. New York, NY: Clarion Books.
4. The teacher will tell the students that fall is traditionally a time when farmers harvest their crops, which means they gather them and get them ready to be sold because the crops (usually fruits, vegetables, wheat/grains) are ripe.
7. The teacher will say to the class that the moon almost sounds like a person and ask the class if they think a moon can really do the same things as people. The teacher will try to guide a student to explaining why the moon is personified (described by human traits)..jpg)
2. The teacher will show the students that when plants and vegetables are sliced in half they make some really neat patterns with their seeds. The teacher will have already sliced all the vegetables and fruits into halves and will hold up to show the students.
8. The teacher will also tell the student that he/she will have to share with his/her group, which may require some patience, but the teacher will tell him/her that she has no doubt in her mind that he/she can handle this and will be respectful and fair.
9. The teacher will tell the class that when he/she is done with his/her stamping project that the student can raise his/her hand and the teacher will move it to the drying rack and that he/she can begin working on his or her leaf rubbings. Once the stamping patterns are done and all dry, they will be able to look at some of the repeating patterns created in the class.
14. And last, the teacher will uncover a jar filled with Cinnamon covered pumpkin seeds, and tell the students that the seeds in this jar are the seeds from the pumpkin that the student used when making stampings. The teacher will explain that she has baked the pumpkin seeds and sprinkled them with cinnamon and sugar and that they are edible. The teacher will tell the students that they are going to see who can guess the number closest to the exact number of seeds there are in the jar. The winner will get to take the jar home, eat the pumpkin seeds if he/she likes, then fill it with whatever he/she likes, and bring it back next week and have the other students guess the number of things in the jar. The winner of next week's jar will then get to take the jar home and do the same, until everyone has had a turn. The teacher will explain that whatever is put inside the jar should be something that the winner can keep and the things inside the jar should be all roughly the same size.
Everything is still in the world, in fact so still, that something is just waiting to happen on this night in early Fall. This is how it all begins on the night of the harvest moon and as the moon rises in the sky over the stalks of the corn, a strange sort of "magic" begins to engulf the landscape, touching all the plants, trees and animals. It also wakes up a little girl and her cat, who becomes one of the people to witness this wonderfully round golden moon. All sorts of incredible things seem to be happening in the light of this very special moon, all sorts of tiny miraculous events. It is no ordinary Fall night, as the landscape is brought to life, for example,"Milkweed pods have cracked open,/spilling out spores/like tiny moonlings/floating/up to their mother." The book is written in a poetic manner, with metaphors and similes, create exciting images for the reader's imagination which are complimented with the beautiful illustrations.
Lesson: Fall Harvest Stamp Patterns.
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Lesson Duration: 45 minutes
Standards addressed: Language Arts, Science, Math, & Visual Arts:
Standard: K-1: The student will begin to read and comprehend a variety of literary texts in print and non-print formats.Indicator: K-1.8: Create responses to literary texts through a variety of methods (for example, writing, creative dramatics, and the visual and performing arts).
Standard: K-2: The student will begin to read and comprehend a variety of informational texts in print and non-print formats.
Indicator: K-2.4: Create responses to informational texts through a variety of methods (for example, drawings, written works, and oral presentations). Standard: K-3: The student will learn to read by applying appropriate skills and strategies.
Indicator: K-3.19: Use prior knowledge and life experiences to construct meaning from texts.
Standard: K-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of seasonal weather changes.
Indicators: K-4.3: Summarize ways that the seasons affect plants and animals.
Standard: K-3: The student will demonstrate through the mathematical processes anemerging sense of repeating and growing patterns and classification based on attributes.
Indicator: K-3.1: Identify simple growing patterns.
Indicator: K-3.2: Analyze simple repeating and growing relationships to extend patterns.
Standard I: Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques, and Processes Students will:
A. Begin to identify differences among media, techniques, and processes used in the visual arts.
Lesson Objectives:-The student will identify Fall harvest crops and how weather affects how certain plants grow.
The student will relate the story to prior knowledge and infer the meaning of "harvest moon" from the pictures.
-The student will gain a general comprehension of what "harvest moon" means
-The student will create repeating patterns.
Materials:
Materials:
-Fletcher, Ralph. (2003). Hello, harvest moon. New York, NY: Clarion Books.-Construction paper-off white (leaf rubbings), and deep brown (stamps).
-Paper towels.
-Paper plates.
-Crayons.
-Newspaper.
-Kids' Tempera Paint-off white, yellow, orange, olive green, red, tan.
-An assortment of fall leaves (not fake and of various shapes, colors, sizes, and textures).
-A medium-size pumpkin.
-Pears.
-Apples.
-Corn.
-Raw Wheat-dried.
-Radishes.
-Potatoes.
-Cinnamon
-Oven.-Cookie sheet, oven mitt, etc.
-Pumpkin seeds.-felt board.
-felt pieces-moon, apples, wheat, pumpkins, potatoes, squash, pears, scarecrow, etc.
-Jar.-Class list.
-Half sheets of paper.
*Note all cutting/slicing of stamps should be done prior to class and stored in Ziploc in the refrigerator.
Introduction:1. The teacher will ask the student if anyone knows what a "harvest moon" is and in what season could we have a harvest moon.
2. The teacher will explain the harvest moon by using a felt board and placing a large full moon on the board. The teacher will also start to talk about the word harvest and put some images onto the board like corn, pumpkins, and a scarecrow.
3. The teacher will ask questions to the student to get an idea about his/her prior knowledge about fall harvest and what he/she knows about the specific season of Fall. The teacher will ask the student if he/she knows the word harvest or if anyone has a guess at what it could be.
4. The teacher will tell the students that fall is traditionally a time when farmers harvest their crops, which means they gather them and get them ready to be sold because the crops (usually fruits, vegetables, wheat/grains) are ripe.5. The teacher will introduce the book, Hello, Harvest Moon, do a short picture walk to see what they think a harvest moon really is, and read it aloud to the class.
6. As the teacher reads the book, she will note how the Harvest Moon is personified, or treated as if it can think and act like a person. She will also discuss how it is portrayed in the illustrations. The teacher will have the student try closing his/her eyes for parts of the descriptions and tell the students to visualize what the fall scene looks like in his/her head.
7. The teacher will say to the class that the moon almost sounds like a person and ask the class if they think a moon can really do the same things as people. The teacher will try to guide a student to explaining why the moon is personified (described by human traits).8. The teacher will ask the students to describe some of the things that were mentioned in the story and what the landscape scenes were like.
9. The teacher will discuss the scarecrow and what its purpose is? The teacher will explain that farmers put them in their fields to scare the crows away and other birds that would normally eat the farmer's crops.
10. The teacher will ask the students what kinds of crops they think are harvested in the fall based on the story. The teacher will write the student responses on the white board, making sure to cover: apples, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, wheat, radishes, pears, squash, etc.
11. The teacher will explain that these are fruits and vegetables that grow best in the summer-fall season due to the weather and temperature. The teacher will explain that they will be doing a fun project to remember these fall harvest crops.
12. The teacher will ask the student to return to his/her seat for further instructions.
Procedure:
1. The teacher will explain that the students will be using vegetables and fruits as stamps to make art prints, and also do some leaf rubbings, for those who finish early.
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2. The teacher will show the students that when plants and vegetables are sliced in half they make some really neat patterns with their seeds. The teacher will have already sliced all the vegetables and fruits into halves and will hold up to show the students.3. The teacher will demonstrate how she uses the stamps on her construction paper to make patterns, and how she can make a repeating pattern. Then she will demonstrate how she can also create leaf rubbings by taking a maple leaf and putting it under a piece of construction paper and then rub on top of it and the leaf's shape and texture shows through. The teacher will show the students that there are many leaves to choose from and that like the fruits and vegetables art project, making patterns, they can also different leaves to make rubbings and create interesting patterns.
4. The teacher will explain that everyone should do the vegetable and fruit stamping project first and if they finish early they can start the leaf rubbing project.
5. The teacher will have already covered the tables with newspaper and she will set the crayons and leaves at the front of the room, along with a stack of off-white construction paper, for those early-finishers.
6. The teacher will explain to the student that the stamping project involves paint so they must be very cautious not to spill it on them self, his/her peer, or on the floor. The teacher will tell the student that she knows that he/she is very responsible and that she knows she can trust them to do this.
7. The teacher will hand out paints that are on paper plates, with the stamps. She will tell the student that he/she should not mix paint colors and to do his/her very best to keep the stamps with the right color.
8. The teacher will also tell the student that he/she will have to share with his/her group, which may require some patience, but the teacher will tell him/her that she has no doubt in her mind that he/she can handle this and will be respectful and fair.
9. The teacher will tell the class that when he/she is done with his/her stamping project that the student can raise his/her hand and the teacher will move it to the drying rack and that he/she can begin working on his or her leaf rubbings. Once the stamping patterns are done and all dry, they will be able to look at some of the repeating patterns created in the class.10. The student will begin to work, as the teacher facilitates, and provides scaffolding. The teacher will carry a class list/matrix on a clipboard throughout the activity to take notes on any important observations of students.
11. Once the whole class is done with the prints, the teacher will call clean-up, where all students will be expected to help.
12. Once the stamp artwork is done, the teacher will go through some of them with the student and see if he/she can identify the vegetable/fruit/wheat that made the print and if the class can identify the repeating patterns. The teacher will hold up halves up the stamps that have been washed off and see if the student can match it to the print on the paper.
13. The teacher will ask the students to review all of the vegetables and fruits they discussed today as Fall Harvest crops and ask the class to remember the trick that the farmer uses to scare the crows away, which they saw in the story.
14. And last, the teacher will uncover a jar filled with Cinnamon covered pumpkin seeds, and tell the students that the seeds in this jar are the seeds from the pumpkin that the student used when making stampings. The teacher will explain that she has baked the pumpkin seeds and sprinkled them with cinnamon and sugar and that they are edible. The teacher will tell the students that they are going to see who can guess the number closest to the exact number of seeds there are in the jar. The winner will get to take the jar home, eat the pumpkin seeds if he/she likes, then fill it with whatever he/she likes, and bring it back next week and have the other students guess the number of things in the jar. The winner of next week's jar will then get to take the jar home and do the same, until everyone has had a turn. The teacher will explain that whatever is put inside the jar should be something that the winner can keep and the things inside the jar should be all roughly the same size.15. Before going out to recess, as an exit slip the teacher will have the student write his/her guess on a slip of paper with his/her name. While the students are at recess the teacher will make sure no two students have the same guess, and record the guesses onto a simple chart.
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