School’s First
Day of School,
written by Adam Rex and illustrated by Christian Robinson, turns the typical
“first day of school” story on its head.
After a new school is built, makes friends with the janitor, and gets
used to a peaceful existence, the school hears some scary, unwelcome news:
children are coming!
School’s First
Day of School
will be a fun writing prompt to use in the classroom. After you read the book aloud to your
students, here are some activities to try:
1.
In this book, the main character is a school.
If you were to write a story with an inanimate object as the main
character, what object would you choose?
Why? When you are choosing your
object, think about what characteristics your inanimate object has that might
be useful in the plot of your story. For
example, in School’s First Day of School,
the school is able to squirt a boy from a water fountain, be embarrassed by
setting off the fire alarm, and be hurt by a pushpin.
2.
What other books can you think of where the main character is an inanimate
object? Make a list as a class.
3.
The school gradually warms up to the children, just as the little girl with
freckles warms up to the school, and the book ends on a happy note. What if you were to write a sequel to School’s First Day of School? What would happen? What new problems would arise, and how would
they be solved?
School’s First
Day of School is
funny, surprising, and heart-warming. It
is a story of adapting to change, and of realizing that the things we never
wanted may be exactly the things we need the most.
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