Activities for Grades 1-3
The following activities and downloadables are for use in the primary grades. Many are associated with specific Heartwood stories and lesson cards as indicated in parentheses.

Bio-poem (Miss Rumphius, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters)
Building Relationships (all books)
Bullying Prevention Links (King of the Playground)
Bus Outline Paper (Maggie and the Pirate)
Chinese Brother Cutouts (Seven Chinese Brothers)
Circular Story Outline (Paper Boy)
Comic Strip Stories (Abiyoyo, Sam and the Lucky Money)
Comic Strip Story (Ish)
Courage Comics (Rag Coat)
Fan Shaped Stories (The Empty Pot)
Grandfather Outline (Grandfather’s Journey)
Heartwood Attribute Word Map (The Boy Who Held Back the Sea)
Heartwood Treasure Box (all books)
Honesty Comics (Roses Sing on New Snow)
Honesty Dilemmas (A Pair of Red Clogs)
Hope Pot (We Be Warm Til Springtime Comes)
Ish Poems (Ish)
Large Letters (all books)
Links to English/Japanese Customs and Dictionaries (How My Parents Learned to Eat)
Lucky Listeners Chart (Once Upon a Time)
My Love for You Grows Card (Morning Glory Monday)
Outline Map of Africa (Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters)
Outline Map of U.S. (Rag Coat)
Outside/Inside Poems (Prince Boghole)
Paper Fortune Cookies (Roses Sing on New Snow)
“Ralph Helps the People Keep Warm” (Sam and the Lucky Money)
Sand Art Paperweight (King of the Playground)
Sound Poems (A Pair of Red Clogs)
Story Outline (Bluebonnet)
Story Paper with Lines (Follow the Drinking Gourd, Chicken Sunday)
Sunshine Graphic Organizer (Fly Away Home)
Whole School Ideas (all books)
Word Problem Paper (The Two Brothers)