Questions and activities to go with the book, Yes Day by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Questions:
Before reading the book:
What do you think this books going to be about?
Look at the boy on the cover. How does he feel? Why do you think he’s so happy?
After Reading:
Is Yes Day a good idea?
Why would it be a bad idea?
Why do you think the parents gave this boy a Yes Day? (explore the end pages with the children for all the ways grown ups say “No.”)
Is pizza for breakfast a bad idea?
Is a food fight a bad idea?
Where would be a good place to have a food fight? Where would be a bad place? How could you make sure no one gets hurt during a food fight?
What would you ask for on Yes Day?
What should the grown ups always say “No” to?
Activities:
- Make a class list of Yes Day requests.
- Make a T-Chart of Yes Day requests, some that would be appropriate and some that wouldn’t be.
- Role-play various Yes Day scenarios. Discuss the good and bad that might happen with each request. What would happen if the kids asked for…
- No chairs in the classroom
- No teacher
- A kid to be the teacher for the day
- Recess all day
- Do all the writing in markers
- Pour the glue all over the table