Finding+Winnie+Reinforcing+Activity


 * Reinforcing Activity: **
 * After the teacher reads the story as a read-aloud, she will ask students if they have ever watched “Winnie-the-Pooh.”
 * Teacher will ask the question “Do you really think this book was a true story?”
 * Then, teacher will show the album in the back of the book to students, without their captions.
 * Teacher will ask the students, “What do you think the first picture is of?” (Harry as a soldier)
 * Teacher will show the pictures of the diary and ask if they know what that is. Teacher will ask the question, “What in the story do you think that Harry could have wrote about in his diary?” Teacher will then tell students what the captions say about the diary and that it is Harry’s, specifically the day that Harry got Winnie.
 * Teacher shows the next page with pictures of the soldiers and Winnie. Teacher will ask the students, “What do you notice about the pictures on this page?”
 * Teacher will then have a discussion with students about how you can tell that the pictures are from long ago because they are black and white. This will lead them into the discussion about how looking at pictures, reading books, looking at diaries, letters, and other artifacts from the past can help us learn about things that happened long ago.
 * Teacher will then ask, “Who told this story?” (the great-granddaughter of Harry)
 * Then teacher will say, “You can write in a diary about things that you do and your kids and great-grandkids can read it in the future. Teacher will provide the students with a piece of paper that says “Diary” at the top, with lines to write and a box to draw a picture.
 * Students will write and draw something that has happened to them recently on their diary page.

**Other Strands:** geography

**Tags:** World War I, History, Winnie-the-Pooh, Harry Colebourn, Lindsay Mattick, Winnie, Family Stories, Winnipeg, Bear, Soldiers, Geography, True Story, Christopher Robin