Book Trail Experience

Photo Story Book Trail” Reflection:

I created a book trail using Photo Story for the first time.  This software is very user friendly with easy to follow instructions.  For my Photo Story I chose “A Bad Case of Stripes” by David Shannon.  The reason that I selected this book is because it shows kids to be themselves and not to try to fit in to please others.   This book would be used in an elementary school.  A Bad Case of Stripes could be used in my library as bully prevention in the school. Since bullying is increasing in schools this would be a good way to show students how bullying could make a person feel. 

Activities that could be implemented after reading this book to your class are the following:

Lower Grades:

·         Make an outline of yourself on a large piece of paper (or of your hand on a smaller piece; or make a mask) – decorate it with things you like. What things do you like that other people like? What things do you like that nobody else likes?

Upper Grades:

·         Reflect on a time when you changed yourselves to “fit in” with a group of people. Write a story about your experience.

·         Interview a role model or a person you look up to. Then compile questions about being yourself and share why their role model thinks it is important to be yourself.