The one and only ivan art projects

Oh Ivan... We finished the book the week before Thanksgiving, so for a culminating opinion writing activity my students created their own version of Ivan. I took 2 shades of gray construction paper and cut them into 3 different sizes. The dark gray was 9 x 12, the light gray were 9 x 6 and another 4.5 x 6. To create Ivan: 1. The students took their fists and placed it on the top of the dark gray paper. They drew a large half circle around their fist to create Ivan's head. From there we drew…

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The One & Only Ivan

My class has been reading "The One and Only Ivan" which is about a gorilla and elephant who are in a circus. It told from Ivan's point of view, so the students understand his thoughts on things and how they're treated in the circus. This book led to a discussion about animals in captivity. Even though it would be very easy for me to tell them my thoughts and try to get them to understand my side of things, that's not the job of a teacher. My job is to get them to think for themselves and do…

My second graders are currently reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate with their classroom teacher and I wanted to amp up e...

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Hi guys! My 3rd grader has recently finished reading The One and Only Ivan and I wanted to share some of the activities we did to go along with the book. Character Traits: I had him draw the main character (Ivan) and brainstorm some character traits Once he had the character traits written around the picture. I had him pick 3 and give me evidence from the text to support his answer. You can read this post here on how I taught character traits. Artist Study: In one of the chapters (pg. 38)…