Teacher’s Guide

 

Wool Gathering: A Sheep Family Reunion

by Lisa Wheeler

 

Comprehension Guide: Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy

 

Knowledge:

 

  1. How many sheep attend the family reunion? Can you get an exact count or just an estimate? Why?
  2. List all the different kind of sheep that attend the reunion. (Ex. rams, ewes)

 

Comprehension:

 

  1. Describe your favorite sheep.
  2. Are their any naughty sheep at the reunion? Who are they?

 

Application:

  1. Decide which sheep poem is your favorite. Why is it? Do you like the character? The words? The pictures?
  2. If you had to take one sheep home, who would it be? Who would you NOT want to take home, why?

     

 

Analysis:

 

  1. How are the older sheep different from the younger ones?
  2. With a parent or teacher, find three puns (word jokes).

 

Synthesis:

 

  1. What’s the funniest illustration in the book? Why?
  2. What would you write about your family’s reunion?

 

Evaluation:

 

  1. Do you think the sheep will meet again next year? Why
  2. What happens at next year’s sheep family reunion?

 

 

 

 

 

Multiple Intelligence Projects

Wool Gathering by Lisa Wheeler

 

 

Verbal/ Linguistic

 

Find the rhyming words in each poem. Is the rhyme in the middle of the word or the ending?

 

Logical/ Mathematical

 

If each sheep wants two cookies, and there are 40 sheep at the reunion, how many cookies should you bake?

 

Only half of the folks at the reunion are old, but they want to drink tea not soda. How many cups should you make?

 

There are fourteen families at the reunion. If each of them brings a new lambie next year, how many more cookies will you have to make next year?

 

Visual/ Spatial

 

Find something in your house made out of wool. Then, throughout the yard, or find scraps of  stuff in the house that remind you of wool. (Close your eyes when you touch something to see if it feels the same.) When you have several things, create a wool collage art piece. You can cut it out in the shape of a sheep, or just enjoy it the way you glued it down!

 

Body/ Kinesthetic

 

What are all the sports mentioned in Wool Gathering? What are your favorite sports to play? Try a new one, and tell whether it would be a good choice for your next family reunion.

 

Musical/ Rhythmic

 

Clap your hands to the rhythm of the poems. Use two (or more) short claps for words with more than one syllable, and just one for the single words. Try to match the rhythm of the words as your parent/ teacher reads them aloud.

 

Interpersonal

 

Send a card to a relative you haven’t seen in a while. Tell them about the books you’ve been reading, and what you’ve been doing since you saw them last. Be sure to mail it!

 

Intrapersonal

 

If you were in a family reunion book, what would your family write about you? What types of things make you different than others? How are you alike? Make a poster titled: Ewe are Special and put pictures of things about you: your favorite color, game, book, friend, and anything else that you love too!

 


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