Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the _______!

This week my kindergarten students are doing an author study on Mo Willems.  We are learning about dialogue and today we read the story Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.

 If you have every heard of Mo Willems you know his pigeon stories always have our main character the Pigeon asking for something he shouldn't have.  The theme is this story is he is asking to drive a bus.  We all know a pigeon can't drive the bus!  In this story it has student interaction with them responding "NO!" to all the still questions from the Pigeon.  After the story the students were asked to think of another thing the pigeon should not drive.  The prompt was "Don't let the pigeon drive the ____________!"  I found this really cute paper to help them with their ideas. Here are a few examples of my students ideas: 

Don't let the pigeon drive the jet!

 Don't let the pigeon drive the motorcycle!

Don't let the pigeon drive the car! 

After they were done coming up with their creative ideas on what NOT to let the pigeon drive, we moved on to the next part of our lesson.  We were then doing to create the pigeon.  Each student was first given a photo copied picture of the pigeon on blue paper.  They were allowed to decorate however they wanted to.  After they were done creating their pigeon, the students had to cut him out.  The next step was copying their writing of "don't let the pigeon drive the ________!" into a speech bubble.  They did an amazing job!  When they were all done copying and cutting our their work, I gave them a large piece of paper to glue on their pieces.  Here are a few finished products:

 

Happy Learning!

Miss Perucki