Today's Classroom Activities :

Maurice Sendak Lesson Plans

A Wild World
Art In acknowledgment of Maurice Sendak's birthday on June 10, design an exhibit with vines, palm trees or moonscapes in which to place drawings of "wild things" created by your class after sharing his famous book, Where the Wild Things Are (HarperCollins, 1988).

Wild Storyboard
Language Arts Using the characters created in the previous activity, have each student lay out a storyboard of six or eight squares. Write and illustrate a story on the storyboard.

Elements of a Story "Where the Wild Things Are"
Students will be able to identify passages that indicate setting, characters, problem (events), and solution in a story.

Chicken Soup With Rice
Vocabulary, literacy, and crosscurricular activities based on the book "Chicken Soup With Rice".

Maurice Sendak: Imagination and Art
Early elementary students will read books written and/or illustrated by Maurice Sendak, learn what reading was like at Sendak's elementary school, and write a class book based on one of Sendak's stories. Middle school students will learn how Sendak not only wrote and illustrated children's books and created works in the field of ballet, but also turned his book Where the Wild Things Are into an opera. They will also work in groups to produce an opera.

Wild Things
Students implement textures and patterns in creating an imaginary "Wild Thing" based on the book and illustrations in Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.