Busy Bee Preschool
Rainbow Fish Craft
Follow your reading of The Rainbow Fish with this adorable printable. Each pupil gets their own fish to color and their own foil scale to affix to the fish.
NorthSouth
Rainbow Fish Discovers the Deep Sea: Activity Kit
Rainbow Fish is on the move again and kids will enjoy these activities designed to accompany a reading of Marcus Pfister's Rainbow Fish Discovers the Deep Sea. A great packet to add to your curriculum library.
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The Rainbow Fish
Students read a story. In this diversity instructional activity, students read The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister, discuss sharing and uniqueness, and decorate their own scale with information about them using pictures or words.
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Lonely Fish
Young scholars read the book The Rainbow Fish. In this citizenship lesson, students discuss how the characters in the story resolved conflicts. Young scholars create a rainbow fish from foil and cotton.
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The Rainbow Fish
Young scholars listen to The Rainbow Fish and select the correct meaning of the story from three examples presented by the teacher. They use a paper sclae to write three descriptive words about themselves.
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Friendship
First graders explore human psychology by reading a book in class. In this friendship lesson, 1st graders identify the benefit of friends and strong relationships while reading the book The Rainbow Fish. Students analyze the images from...
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Rainbow Fish Graphing
Students graph different colors of rainbow fish scales after participating in a shared reading of The Rainbow Fish. They answer questions based on the graph. They practice making graphs independently using colored cereal circles.
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The Rainbow Fish
Students listen to The Rainbow Fish and discuss the meanings of friendship. This is a wonderful way to open up the school year on the very first day of school. After the story, students make a paper chain with all of their names linked...
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Beginning of the Year Activity Using The Rainbow Fish
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish Big Book". They discuss how each one of them are unique in some way. They decorate their own fish to show their characteristics and shares it with the class so they are able to learn about each other.
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The Frienship Fish -- Rainbow Fish Book Activity
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish". They discuss how important friendship is and list qualities they want in a good friend. They create a giant fish with each child's quality for the class to view.
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More With The Rainbow Fish
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish" and practice sharing items with one another. They discuss the importance of sharing with one another. They use this lesson plan as part of an ocean theme.
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The Rainbow Fish
Students are read the book "The Rainbow Fish" and summarize each page. They discuss actions they should be displaying to others. They critique the book and role-play being friends to end the lesson.
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Other Activities -- Rainbow Fish
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish" and discuss characteristics of being a good friend. They create their own fish to show the qualities they discussed. They receive one scale to add to the fish.
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Watercolor Rainbow Fish
Students experience an art project as a follow up to reading The Rainbow Fish.
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The Rainbow Fish
Students identify vocabulary words and create their own paper rainbow fish. In this 1st - 2nd grade lesson plan, students identify vocabulary words such as sharing and friendship. Using The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister for...
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Sharing is Caring
By engaging in an arts-based activity, 2nd graders explore peace in the classroom. They listen to the story The Rainbow Fish, then create their own fish to hang in the classroom. They write three things that make them happy on...
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The Rainbow Fish
Students are read a book about friendship. They create a friendship chain out of construction paper. They discover the importance of friends in school.
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Fat or Skinny Questions?
In this fat or skinny questions worksheet, students identify whether questions are simple or intricate for the book The Rainbow Fish. Students analyze ten sentences.
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Graphing With Paper and Computers
Fourth graders construct bar graphs. In this graphing lesson, 4th graders create bar graphs in connection with the story, The Copycat Fish. After creating the initial graphs on paper, students use MS Excel to create graphs.
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Developing Friendships
Young scholars listen to the book Friends and discuss how to make friends and the characteristics of good friends. In this friends lesson, students listen to the story and practice role playing on how to make friendships.
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The Fairy Tree
Read about the ways a beloved pet can help a girl meet her true love with a short fairy tale. As fifth graders read the passage, they note their inferences and answer four comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding.