You Hold Me Up
Written by: Monique Gray Smith Illustrated by: Danielle Daniel
Orca Book Publishers, 2017
International literature
What are some ways that we can hold each other up? This book helps students see and make connections to many ways in which they can "hold each other up" through showing support and friencship to one another no matter the situation. This book is full of encouragement and helps promote a risk free classroom environment that students will feel safe and accepted in. A must read for any classroom!
The illustrations in this book are composed of bright watercolors and acrylics. The pictures themselves, however, are fairly simple with little detail and consist of mostly lines and circles. Each illustration promotes diverse cultures and interests by displaying different groups of people doing activities such as cooking, playing, and making music.
One way that I could use this book in the classroom setting would be to read this story to kindergarten or first grade students during the first week of the new school year. After reading, I and my students would participate in creating an anchor chart to build our classroom rules together. This activity would allow the students to set their own expectations based on the the supports seen throughout the book. This will make the rules more meaningful for students because they created them and allow them to feel a sense of unitity.
What are some ways that we can hold each other up? This book helps students see and make connections to many ways in which they can "hold each other up" through showing support and friencship to one another no matter the situation. This book is full of encouragement and helps promote a risk free classroom environment that students will feel safe and accepted in. A must read for any classroom!
The illustrations in this book are composed of bright watercolors and acrylics. The pictures themselves, however, are fairly simple with little detail and consist of mostly lines and circles. Each illustration promotes diverse cultures and interests by displaying different groups of people doing activities such as cooking, playing, and making music.
One way that I could use this book in the classroom setting would be to read this story to kindergarten or first grade students during the first week of the new school year. After reading, I and my students would participate in creating an anchor chart to build our classroom rules together. This activity would allow the students to set their own expectations based on the the supports seen throughout the book. This will make the rules more meaningful for students because they created them and allow them to feel a sense of unitity.
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