Predictable Pattern

Citation: Diesen, D. (2008) . The pout-pout fish. New York: Phoenix color
corporation.

ISBN #: 0-374-36096-0

Book Content: 
This book is all about a fish that doesn’t know how to smile. He is always pouting and being glum, spreading his sad attitude around the ocean. The
pout-pout fish has friends who try and cheer him up. Eventually, a girl fish comes along and kisses him. Then he can’t stop smiling and he spreads his cheerfulness
all over the place. The language used in this story is just fantastic. It includes a wide variety of new words.

Why 3-5’s?: 
This story is perfect for this age group. It does have some new words,
but children that age won’t have trouble understanding and learning the words once
they are explained. The illustrations are so colorful and fantastic it will just draw the
children into the story immediately.

Illustrations:
They are just gorgeous. There are such beautiful colors on each page.
All of the fish are different colors. None of the illustrations are scary looking, they
are all really friendly and age appropriate.

Provocation: 
Set up a big picture of the pout-pout fish in the room where the
children could see it. Wonder with children why he looks so sad.

Presentation:
1. Read this story with voices for all the different characters during a circle time. Stop and wonder right before he gets very happy. Discuss different emotions with the children, and also how they solve their problems.

2. Use a felt board. First, show how unhappy he is. And also how he relates to other fish.  After that, show his happiness by using a heart shaped felt.

3.  Use fridge magnets technic.   Colour copy all the characters in the book and put magnets at the back.  Make both a happy face and a sad face for pout-fish.  Paint a baking tray with a deep ocean view and  tell the story.

Extentions:

1. Talk with the children about different emotions, such as happy, glum, mad
etc. Also talk about, how you are feeling effects everybody around you. If
someone is happy, that makes other people happy too. If someone is pouting
and sad, that makes others unhappy.

2. Reading non-fictional books about octopus, squid and other things that live
under the sea.

3. Set out a few age appropriate fish/under the sea puzzles for the children to
work on during activity time.