Materials Needed

1. The book, How Are You Peeling? by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers.

2. A scrapbook or photo album.

3. Camera.

4. Paper (plain white, or glossy) for the photo album.

5. The song, When I Get a Feeling, from Red Grammer's recording Hello World.

6. A vegtable from the supermarket (see teacher preparation below).

7. Black-eyed peas

8. Scissors or a sharp knife

Teacher Preparation:

1. Pick a vegetable from the book, How Are You Peeling, at your local super market. I like using a pepper, lemon, orange or sweet potato. From that vegetable you will make one of the characters from the book using the black-eyed peas for the eyes and scissors or a sharp knife to cut out the mouth, smile or frown (depending on what face you want to make). TIP: Take the book with you to the super market and then find a vegetable that looks like one in the book.  Make your vegatable feeling face using the book to help guide you or create your own.

2. Print or write the words from Red’s song into the scarp book leaving room for pictures where Red mentions a feeling in the song.

Activity:

1. Show your vegetable to the class and ask how the students think the vegetable feels?

2. Read the story, How are you Peeling?

3. Expalin to the students that we all experience feelings and we can't really say that feelings are good or bad.  We need feelings to help us understand who we are.

4. Play the song, When I Get a Feeling. Teach the students the chorus and then have them sing along with the recording.

5. For the next few days ask students to demonstrate different feelings that Red mentions in the song. Take pictures of the students showing the different feelings.

6. Put the pictures of the students showing different feelings in the appropriate spaces of the scarp book.

7. Have students take turns taking the book home to share with families.