Hello everyone! I hope this blog post finds you happy and healthy during these crazy times. Above, I included a link to download the picture book that I created with Storybird for this week’s assignment. It’s titled “How to Manage Sadness: A Guide for Children to Find Happiness”.
I chose this topic for my book because I think is is very important for children to learn how to approach sadness and other more difficult emotions in their life. This is related to my personal goal of becoming an elementary school teacher, because I will most definitely have to work will children on how to navigate through their feelings.
The process creating my storybook was relatively easy, and I enjoyed using the Storybird software. It was incredible how much art was available for me to use in my book, and I really appreciated how none of the images had to be cited individually. The only difficulty that I ran into was after finishing my book, I was confused on how to publish it and embed the PDF file into this post.
As a future teacher, I can use the book that I created to teach my students how to manage their emotions and bring happiness into their lives. While this may not seem like a typical academic subject, learning how to control your emotions is critical to becoming a successful and healthy adult. The specific lesson that could be created from this topic would entail me reading this story to my class, and then having my students create their own “how-to” books on the strategies that they use on a daily basis to maintain their emotions. Not only will this teach students how to write and think creatively, but it will also help them to understand the importance of having emotional control at younger ages to foster a healthier adult life in the future.
Thank you so much for taking the time to download read my book, as well as read my discussion on this post about my experience with this assignment!
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