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Title: Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day
Author: Jaime Lee Curtis
Illustrator: Laura Cornell
Genre: Mood & Emotion Book
Theme(s): Understanding moods/emotions & SEL
Opening line/Sentence: “Today I feel silly.”
Brief Book Summary: A young girl talks about the various moods that she feels and why she is feeling a particular way. The young girl's mother is present in most of the scenarios and she is there to help and support the young girl.
Response to two professional reviews: The Kirkus and Coghlan reviews both talked about the main character just wants her feelings to be validated, understood, and made clear that everyone feels a wide variety of emotions every day. The mother is in many of the scenarios posed in the book to comfort and validate how the little girl is feeling at a particular moment. Through the rhyming and different illustrated faces that the little girl makes throughout the story helps the reader understand how she expresses her emotions.
Tell Me Framework:
Like(s): Throughout the story the young girl's feelings are validated and she is taught that it is alright to feel what she is feeling.
Dislike(s): In some of the illustrations there is so much going on that it sometimes is distracting and takes away from the story.
Pattern(s): The last word in each sentence on a page rhymes with either the last word in the following sentence or every other sentence.
Puzzle(s): How old is the young girl in the book supposed to be?
Consideration of Instruction Application: An activity that can be done while reading the book is the use of thought provoking questions like, show me the type of face that you would make if you felt angry, sad, happy, confused, silly, etc? This will get the children engaged during the read aloud and makes them think about what they might look like if they are feeling a certain emotion and to be more interactive the teacher could even give each child a small mirror to see themselves in. A teacher can also create an emotion chart for each child in the classroom and every day they can either draw how they are feeling or put a sticker next to the mood/emotion they are feeling.
Author: Jaime Lee Curtis
Illustrator: Laura Cornell
Genre: Mood & Emotion Book
Theme(s): Understanding moods/emotions & SEL
Opening line/Sentence: “Today I feel silly.”
Brief Book Summary: A young girl talks about the various moods that she feels and why she is feeling a particular way. The young girl's mother is present in most of the scenarios and she is there to help and support the young girl.
Response to two professional reviews: The Kirkus and Coghlan reviews both talked about the main character just wants her feelings to be validated, understood, and made clear that everyone feels a wide variety of emotions every day. The mother is in many of the scenarios posed in the book to comfort and validate how the little girl is feeling at a particular moment. Through the rhyming and different illustrated faces that the little girl makes throughout the story helps the reader understand how she expresses her emotions.
Tell Me Framework:
Like(s): Throughout the story the young girl's feelings are validated and she is taught that it is alright to feel what she is feeling.
Dislike(s): In some of the illustrations there is so much going on that it sometimes is distracting and takes away from the story.
Pattern(s): The last word in each sentence on a page rhymes with either the last word in the following sentence or every other sentence.
Puzzle(s): How old is the young girl in the book supposed to be?
Consideration of Instruction Application: An activity that can be done while reading the book is the use of thought provoking questions like, show me the type of face that you would make if you felt angry, sad, happy, confused, silly, etc? This will get the children engaged during the read aloud and makes them think about what they might look like if they are feeling a certain emotion and to be more interactive the teacher could even give each child a small mirror to see themselves in. A teacher can also create an emotion chart for each child in the classroom and every day they can either draw how they are feeling or put a sticker next to the mood/emotion they are feeling.
