Jory John’s “The Cool Bean” is an awesome story with several themes that make it great for whole group lessons, small group counseling, and individual counseling. This resource is a set of activities that companion wonderfully with the book. Activities cover the following areas: identifying what they personally believe is cool, developing ideas of how to be kind, inclusion, and self-acceptance.
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Resource includes:
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Lesson plan including discussion questions while reading the story
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Whole or small group movement-based intro activity
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6 worksheets (“I Am a Cool Bean”, “Cool Thinking”, “What is a cool bean?”, “What does cool even mean?”, “Cool and Kind”, and “Who I Am: Inside and Out”)
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Craftivity/Mini-Book
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Whole group processing activity (with directions for students to do in small groups or all together for emerging readers) using discussion/bean cards
This resource is a set of companion activities to go along with the story “The Cool Bean” by Jory John. The book is not included in this resource and needs to be purchased separately.
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