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Busy Bee Preschool

Rainbow Fish Craft

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Follow your reading of The Rainbow Fish with this adorable printable. Each pupil gets their own fish to color and their own foil scale to affix to the fish.
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Ned Show

Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
If friendship were a soup, what ingredients would be in it? As part of a study of Marcus Pfister's Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale, kids engage in a series of friendship-themed activities using materials contained in this richly...
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Rainbow Fish Drawing

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the book, RAINBOW FISH and view a few pictures of different types of fish. They discuss putting certain shapes together make up objects and talk about and demonstrate straight and wavy lines, thick and thin lines....
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NorthSouth

Rainbow Fish Discovers the Deep Sea: Activity Kit

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Rainbow Fish is on the move again and kids will enjoy these activities designed to accompany a reading of Marcus Pfister's Rainbow Fish Discovers the Deep Sea. A great packet to add to your curriculum library.
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Santa Clara County Office of Education

The Rainbow Fish: Activities for Parents to Do with Children at Home

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister's award-winning story about the joys of sharing, is the inspiration for this resource loaded with fun. Suggestions for language and language arts, math, science, and social studies activities are included...
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The Rainbow Fish

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners read a story. In this diversity lesson, students read The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister, discuss sharing and uniqueness, and decorate their own scale with information about them using pictures or words.
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Lonely Fish

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read the book The Rainbow Fish. In this citizenship lesson, students discuss how the characters in the story resolved conflicts. Students create a rainbow fish from foil and cotton.
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Glue Fish

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Get out the glue and those oil pastels its time for an art project. The class explores shape, art, and color as they draw fish with glue, let them dry, and then color them as they wish. This project would be wonderful after discussing...
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The Rainbow Fish

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to The Rainbow Fish and select the correct meaning of the story from three examples presented by the teacher. They use a paper sclae to write three descriptive words about themselves.
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Fishing for Success

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to story Rainbow Fish to the Rescue, and identify strategies to assist those in need.
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Rainbow Fish: The Copycat Fish Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the concept of copying one another. In this early childhood lesson plan, students discuss what a copycat is and why people copy one another. Students then discuss the story Rainbow Fish: The Copycat Fish, recording...
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Friendship

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore human psychology by reading a book in class. In this friendship instructional activity, 1st graders identify the benefit of friends and strong relationships while reading the book The Rainbow Fish. Students analyze...
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Rainbow Fish

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars listen to a story about tropical fish and view photographs. Using a piece of construction paper, they draw a fish and add eyes, a mouth and fins. They also add colorful scales to make the fish their own and place it into...
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Rainbow Fish

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this color word recognition worksheet, students analyze the words printed in each of 10 small fish in an undersea picture. Students color each fish according the color word printed on it. Then students color 10 blank fish so that each...
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Every Color in the Rainbow

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students brainstorm and discuss the amazing world of rainbows. They draw and color rainbows and look for natural rainbows that occur whenever white light is split into the spectrum and the rainbows that can form on soap bubbles and fish...
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The Rainbow Fish

For Teachers K
Students listen to The Rainbow Fish and discuss the meanings of friendship. This is a wonderful way to open up the school year on the very first day of school. After the story, students make a paper chain with all of their names linked...
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Sharing Under the Sea

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to story The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, discuss why sharing is good, demonstrate understanding of sharing by decorating and sharing cookies, and practice saying "please" and "thank you" as they share icing with other...
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My Caring and Sharing Book

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the book Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. They consider when they have shared with someone or expressed caring. They write, illustrate and compile a fish book that tells of their caring and sharing experiences.
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Aquarium Crayon Resist

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a crayon resist drawing as a literature response. In this literature response and art lesson, students listen to the book, Rainbow Fish, noting all of the colorful fish. They use wax crayons to draw a picture of a fish...
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Subtraction (Single Digits)

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate subtraction process using an object (fish scales), set up a subtraction problem using fish scales, and apply the subtraction sign when separating sets of objects.
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Rainbow Trout

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate the many varieties of both tropical and freshwater fish, and find out about the anatomy of these creatures. They explore biodiversity in bodies of water, including information about coral reefs, and study the effects...
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The Rainbow Fish

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify vocabulary words and create their own paper rainbow fish. In this 1st - 2nd grade lesson plan, students identify vocabulary words such as sharing and friendship. Using The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister for...
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Rainbow Fish Graphing

For Teachers K
Students graph different colors of rainbow fish scales after participating in a shared reading of The Rainbow Fish. They answer questions based on the graph. They practice making graphs independently using colored cereal circles.
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Wax Resist Fish

For Teachers K
Pupils review what a pattern is and they create a pattern on a fish. They are reminded that patterns do not change halfway through and they paint over it with watercolor paints. They display their fish on the walls.

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