Caldecott Honor Book KidQuest: What Can You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page for Emergent Readers and Writers KidQuest by Dr. Alice Christie   Let's Begin | What We'll Learn | Let's Explore | Let's Share | Let's Check | Let's Learn More | Teacher Notes Let's Begin Together, we will read the book, What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? The authors and illustrators are Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. This book is about animal's noses, mouths, ears, feet, and tails. Where are our noses, mouths, ears, and feet? Do we have tails? What do we do with our noses, our mouths, our ears, and out feet? What We'll Do and Learn   After reading What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? you will: chose one animal from the book to study and learn about classify your animal in three different ways our class will make graphs about these animals write a tall tale about your animal with a picture of your animal invite our parents to our What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? celebration. share our pictures, stories and graphs with our parents and other kids in our school and in Arizona Let's Explore   Animals with noses, mouths, ears, feet, and tails are all around us. Explore Web sites about the animal you wish to research:   Noses Ears Platypus Site 1 | Site 2 Bat Site 1 | Site 2 | Site 3 Hyena Site 1 | Site 2 Field Cricket Site 1 | Site 2 African Elephant Site 1 | Site 2 Antelope Jackrabbit American Site 1 Alligator Site 2 Hippopotamus Site 1 | Site 2 Mole Site 1 | Site 2 Humpback Whale Site 1 | Site 2 Tails Eyes Striped Skunk Site 1 | Site 2 Chameleon Site 1 | Site 2 Giraffe Site 1 | Site 2 Bald Eagle Site 1 | Site 2 Five-lined Skink Site 1 | Site 2 Horned Lizard Site 1 | Site 2 Scorpion Site 1 | Site 2 Four-Eyed Fish Site 1 | Site 2 Spider Monkey Site 1 | Site 2 Bush Baby Site 1 | Site 2 Feet Mouths Chimpanzee Site 1 | Site 2 Brown Pelican Site 1 | Site 2 Blue-footed Booby Site 1 | Site 2 Mosquito Site 1 | Site 2 Water Strider Site 1 | Site 2 Giant Anteater Site 1 | Site 2  Gecko Site 1 | Site 2 Egg-eating Snake Site 1 | Site 2 Mountain Goat Site 1 | Site 2 Archerfish Site 1 | Site 2   More links coming soon! Let's Share   On November 1st, we will invite our parents, grandparents, friends, and other students in our school to come to our classroom. We will celebrate all we have learned about animals when they come by showing them our: pictures tall tales graphs and telling them all we have learned about the author/illustrator, Steve Jenkins. Let's Check   Coming Soon: Rubrics to evaluate students' final products Students reflections template Let's Learn More See another class that studied this book Read other people's reviews Find out more about the author/illustrator Teacher Notes Lesson Objectives To introduce author/illustrator, Steve Jenkins To introduce students to the concepts of noses, ears, tails, eyes, feet, and mouths To introduce students to different animals and how they use their noses, ears, tails, eyes, feet, and mouths To introduce categorization and categorize by number of feet, body covering, and home (air, sea, land) To write a tall tale stemming from What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? Links to content area state standards Writing Process Grade 1 Writing Grade 1 Reading Reading Literary Text Reading Informational Text Online resources for teachers Book Talk Tips About the Author ChildrensLit.com: Steve Jenkins Books by Steve Jenkins Lesson Ideas Timeline for the KidQuest: One week Suggestions: Most of the Web sites contain pictures and text. Teachers, aides, or volunteers will need to read much of the text to students.