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This tale of one man’s love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured readers’ attention and hearts. from Grandfather’s Journey at amazon.com

The rich words of this story provide a stable foundation for many different learning activities. You’ll find various options in our Grandfather’s Journey printable pack.

Grandfather’s Journey Printable Activities

The Grandfather’s Journey printable pack includes these activities:

Social Studies: Japan Learn about Japan and Japan’s culture. You may want to use our Japan Lapbook as a starting point. You could also check out some books from your local library.

Can you find any of the pieces of Japanese culture in illustrations in the story?

Complete the Japanese Culture Mini-book.

Social Studies: Generations In the book, Allen Say talks about his grandfather, his grandmother, and his mother. Including Allen Say, this would be three generations. Discuss generations with your student.

Use the T-books provided to write in the names of your student’s parents and grandparents.

Geography: Map Grandfather’s Journey Use the map provided to mark Japan and California.

Geography: Continents and Oceans This book mentions Japan, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and California. Does your student know which continent grandfather started on? (Asia)

Take this opportunity to introduce or review the seven continents and four oceans of the world. Use the discs provided to label a map.

Use the cards provided to review the continents. An older student could write facts on the backs of the cards. Store the cards in a pocket in your lapbook.

Geography: Land Types This goes along with the last lesson. As grandfather traveled, he saw many different types of land: deserts, farmland, mountains, and a coastline. Complete the envelope fold book.

Language Arts: Copywork Copy the passage in your best writing. An older student may want to copy a larger passage:

“But I also miss the mountains and rivers of my childhood. I miss my old friends. So I return now and then, when I can not still the longing in my heart. The funny thing is, the moment I am in one country, I am homesick for the other.”

Language Arts: Listmaking Where in the world would you like to visit? Why? What about your student? Use the mini-book provided to make a list of places you’d like to travel to.

Science: Songbirds Grandfather kept songbirds. What songbirds are considered good pets? What other birds are kept as pets? Check out books about pet birds from your local library.

Use the bird cage shape book to record a list of song birds, a list of pet birds, or pet bird facts. Be sure to draw a pet bird inside the cage!

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Further Expanding Questioning, Grandfather's Journey

This lesson is designed to help primary students continue to learn about the importance of asking questions before, during, and after reading by having the students generate all of the during-reading questions and some of the after-reading questions. Students should progress to this lesson once they have completed The Mitten lesson plan , Koko's Kitten lesson plan , and Frog and Toad Together lesson plan .

In this lesson, students will generate their own questions about the Caldecott Medal winner- Grandfather's Journey , by Allen Say. This is the fourth lesson of a set of questioning lessons designed for primary grades.

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

Double-entry journal template

Writing or drawing paper

Planning and Diangositics

Students will need some writing skills to complete this lesson, as they will be writing in a double-entry journal . You may want to pair struggling writers with a partner who can write. Students should have a good understanding of how to ask and answer questions before, during, and after reading.

Hook/Engagement

Explain to students you want them to come up with "during-reading" questions as you read aloud to them, but you are going to ask them several before-reading questions to get them thinking about Grandfather's Journey . Show students the cover of the book and read the title aloud to them. Then, ask students the following questions:

What do you know about any of your grandparents' lives? Do you know where they grew up? Have you visited there?

Have you ever been on a boat on the ocean or taken a long journey?

How do you think that you would feel if you left America and moved to another country? Would you be afraid, excited, and so forth.

After hearing the title of this story, what would you predict this story to be about?

Give students time to answer your questions; their answers will engage one another and get them ready to read the story. These questions will help them focus their "during-reading" questions more sharply by encouraging them to put themselves in the author's shoes and think about the idea of this story. Tell students that it is a true story; they are going to learn about the author's grandfather's journey to America, and how the author eventually had the same feelings about his "home" as his grandfather and therefore felt he really understood his grandfather.

• Riverboat : a boat that is used on a river
• Sculptures : three three-dimensional works of art such as a statue
• Bewildered : to be confused
• Warbler : a small singing bird
• Silvereye : a very small bird

Measurable Objectives

Explain to students that you are going to read Grandfather's Journey aloud to them. Then you will ask them to think of some questions that they have about the story as you are reading to them. You will record their questions in a double-entry journal .

At designated stopping points, they can tell you the answers they found, and you will record their answers. Then, after you've finished reading aloud to them, you'll ask them to write or draw an answer to a question they had about the book.

Focused Instruction

Draw a double-entry journal on the blackboard, a piece of chart paper, or use an overhead projector. Read pages 4-13 aloud to students and then stop. Ask students to tell you some questions that they thought about as you read to them. Have them show you the page of text or picture that made them think about the question they asked. Record their questions in the left-hand column of the double entry journal. (Some sample questions include: When did the author's grandfather leave for North America? What do I already know about the author's grandfather? What new places will he go to next in America? Will he get homesick and want to go back to Japan?)

Explain to students that there are no right or wrong questions to ask during reading. The important detail is that they are asking themselves questions as you read to them to help them think about the story and the main character (the grandfather) and to help them predict what might happen next in the story. Overall, asking questions makes them curious and want to know more about the story, which keeps their interest and helps them understand the story.

Read pages 14-17 aloud to students. Again, stop and review the questions you recorded for them in the first section of your read-aloud. Can they answer any of the questions yet? If they can, then record their answers. Then, ask students to ask any new questions they have about the pages you just read to them. Write their new questions in the double-entry journal. (Sample questions include: What do I know about California? Will the grandfather's wife and daughter like America? Will the grandfather take his family to live in Japan?) You may choose to show students on a map where Japan is in relation to California and show them the Pacific Ocean – the ocean the grandfather sailed on in the steamship.

Read pages 18-23 aloud to students. Review the questions they have asked already to see if the can answer any and then write their new questions in the double-entry journal. (Some sample questions include: How do I think that Japan and America were different at this time? Will the grandfather's daughter stay in Japan with her baby?)

Read pages 24-32 aloud to students and follow the same process of reviewing previous questions and recording students' new ones. Point out that after reading this section you will record the questions they had while you were reading these pages. For example, after you read page 26, they might have wondered what war the author was talking about. (You may choose to give students a very brief explanation of WWII or just talk about the war generally to help them understand the setting of this part of the story.)

Review the process of asking questions during reading. Point to several questions that students asked and answered and show how asking those questions, and finding the answers to them later on in the book, helped students understand the book and the characters even more.

Guided practice

Review the idea of asking questions after reading. Explain that many of the questions that readers ask themselves after they have read a book are not questions that can be answered from the book. The stories or facts in books can make readers wonder about topics beyond what they just read. Model several questions that you had after reading Grandfather's Journey :

Why does the author end the story by saying that he thinks he knows his grandfather now?

Have I ever really felt homesick before?

Pair students and have them think about a question that they had after you finished reading Grandfather's Journey to them. Give students some time to formulate a question and accept any reflective question that can somehow be connected to the story. Ask pairs to relate their question and explain why they had that question.

Independent Practice

Explain to students that you want them to think more about Grandfather's Journey now that you have finished reading the story to them. Ask each student to write or draw an answer to the "after-reading" question they asked with their partner in the Guided Practice activity. Once students are finished, ask them to share their writing or drawing and explain to the class why they came up with the answer they did.

To assess whether students have learned the types of questions that you ask before, during, and after reading, write several questions about Grandfather's Journey on the blackboard or on a piece of chart paper. Ask them to explain whether each question is a before-, a during-, or an after-reading question. Then, assess whether the questions have aided their reading comprehension level by having students answer the questions. To further assess students' understanding of asking questions before, during, and after reading, select a new book that you have not read aloud to them and have them model the types of questions they should ask before you read, while you are reading to them, and after you have finished reading to them.

Reflection and Planning

Determine which students understand how and when to ask good questions before, during, and after reading by seeing if they correctly label the questions you gave them about Grandfather's Journey in the Assessment activity. Encourage students to use this questioning process with any new book that you read with them in class or those they read at home. If students are struggling with this strategy, review previous lesson plans that use different books and review the strategy of asking and answering questions.

Present this lesson plan for the strategy of asking questions before, during, and after reading using the book <em>Grandfather's Journey</em> by Alan Say.

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"Grandfather's Journey": Test Questions & Materials for 4th Grade

• Patricia Gable
• Categories : Lesson plans & worksheets for grades 3 to 5
• Tags : Teaching grades pre k to 5

Enrich the Lesson

Use the Grandfather’s Journey to provide background information about Japan, stories from culturally diverse families and for

additional crafts and projects. This beautifully illustrated Caldecott Medal winner recounts the story of a young Japanese man who is torn between his love for the land of his birth and his home in California. Provided here are some test questions and suggested materials to complement the book.

Short Answer Questions

Describe the difference between the young man’s clothes in Japan with the European clothes he wore.

• What happened to each man as he moved from California to Japan or from Japan to California?
• List the ways Japan and America are alike and different.
• Draw a family tree with the three generations of Grandfather’s family.
• Why do you think the book was chosen to be a Caldecott Medal winner?
• Which page of the book illustrates how America was a “melting pot” and why?
• Describe a time when you have been homesick. What things did you miss?

Fill In the Correct Word

1. The young man crossed the __________Ocean to travel from Japan to America. (Pacific)

2.The young man traveled on a _________________ to get to America. (Steamship)

3. It was ________________weeks before the young man saw land when traveling across the ocean to America. (three)

4. The young man used these three ways to travel around North America.

___________________________,________________________.__________________

(train, riverboat and walking)

5. Farm fields reminded the young man of _________________. (the ocean)

6. The young man thought the rivers were as clear as ______________________. (the sky)

7. He shook hands with _________men, ____________men,_____________men and _____________men (What colors?) (red, white, yellow, black)

8. The young man liked ______________________the best. (California)

9. He went back to ______________________to marry his sweetheart. (Japan).

10. The young man and his bride lived by this bay city_____________________. (San Francisco)

11. When the man started to think of his homeland he surrounded himself with __________________. (Songbirds)

12. A _____________ destroyed the man’s house in the city. (war or bomb)

True or False

1. After he married his sweetheart they stayed in Japan. (False)

2. The more the young man traveled the more he missed his home. (False)

3. The young man was bewildered and excited by the huge cities and factories. (True)

4. The young couple first had a baby boy. (False)

5. He took his daughter to see his homeland when she was young. (False)

6. When the man returned to his homeland he bought a house in the village because his daughter liked it there. (False)

7. The man raised birds in his home in Japan. (True)

8. When his home was destroyed, the man returned to California. (False)

9. The man’s daughter met her husband in California. (False)

10. The man missed the mountains, rivers and old friends in his homeland. (True)

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Other useful resources you might consider are:

All About Japan: Stories, Songs, Crafts and More by Willamarie Moore has instructions for doing origami, dances, songs and haiku. Included also are Japanese stories and recipes.

Japanese Immigrants, 1850-1950 by Rosemary Wallner is a book, which is part of the Coming to America series.

The East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan by Christy Hale provides a picture-book biography of the early life in Japan of a famous artist whose heritage is Japanese and American.

Japanese Traditions: Rice Cakes, Cherry Blossoms and Matsuri: A Year of Seasonal Japanese Festivities by Setsu Broderick shares memories of childhood in Japan. The book includes games, food, toys and festivities.

The Way We Do It in Japan by Geneva Cobb Iijima is the story of a young boy who suddenly has to move from California to Japan when His father gets a job transfer. Learn how the cultures are alike and different.

Japan: Over 40 Activities to Experience Japan - Past and Present by Debbie Michiko Florence provides activities to learn to speak and write Japanese words, practice origami and more.

Time for Assessment

If you have included some of the above supplemental materials, you may want to add an individual or group project in your assessment along with the Grandfather’s Journey test questions. Consider some of the following ideas:

• Cook a Japanese recipe
• Write a haiku
• Draw a map of Japan
• Research what happened to Japan in World War II, or
• Teach the class how to do an origami figure.

This book can be used as a springboard for many different lessons: Learning about Japan, cultural differences, Caldecott winners, World War II or even feelings such as home sickness. The <em>Grandfather’s Journey</em> materials will help you expand your lesson and the test questions and projects will simplify your assessment of what students have learned.

Zurlo, Tony. _The Japanese Americans._Lucent, 2001.

Wallner, Rosemary. Japanese Immigrants, 1850-1950. Blue Earth Books,2002.

Hale, Christy. The East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan. Lee and Low Books, 2009.

Broderick, Setsu. Japanese Traditions: Rice Cakes, Cherry Blossoms and Matsuri: A Year of Seasonal Japanese Festivities . Tuttle Publishing, 2010.

Iijima, Geneva Cobb. The Way We Do It in Japan Albert Whitman and Company, 2002.

Florence, Debbie Iijima. Japan: Over 40 Activities to Experience Japan - Past and Present. Williamson Books, 2009.

Moore, Willamarie. All About Japan: Stories, Songs, Crafts and More. Tuttle Publishing, 2011.

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We started our adventure to Japan with a special sushi breakfast!

We chose to memorize James 3:18 for this book, because it referenced being a peacemaker.

I created two versions of this Bible verse pack . You can purchase them at our TPT store .

Jordan traced the lapbook insert.

Social Studies & History:

Jordan added our story disk on our world map.

I added a Japan and Asia continent box in our Learning Lane.

Jordan LOVED working on the Lego flag activity ( flag card from Homeschool Creations).

The boys added some inserts into their lapbooks ( Homeschool Share and FIAR Fold & Learn ).

Grandfather’s Journey:

After reading our sweet story about grandpas, we mapped grandfather’s journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to California.

The boys completed the FIAR Fold & Learn four generations lapbook insert.

Japanese Culture:

Jordan added some inserts about Japan in his lapbook ( Homeschoolshare ).

We read Everyone Eats on our Epic app.  This book showed foods around the world, we paid special attention to the sushi page for Japan!  We also enjoyed a special ramen night (sorry, no picture).

World War II:

Jordan’s aunt sent him special WWII posters when she heard he was learning about WWII.  He LOVED looking at all the ships and tanks!

Sadako’s Cranes:

I wanted to include an origami activity since Parker was learning how to fold oragami in his Sonlight Core A studies .

Paper Cranes:

I brought out our Oragami kit and we watched an Art for Kids Hub tutorial on our Grandfather’s Journey playlist .

Everyone picked out their paper and we started the video.

We had to pause, rewind, and watch certain “folds” several times since “some of us” (mainly ME) needed extra viewing to get it!

Haley and Jordan folded their origami while Parker was taking a nap.

Later that evening, Parker and I folded his paper and it was MUCH easier!

The cranes turned out adorable!

California:

We made our journey to Cali and Jordan LOVED working on our US Montessori puzzle.

I also printed a california fact sheet (from the Target dollar bin YEARS ago) and Jordan added it to his lapbook.

The boys added some of the California inserts from our Homeschool Share and FIAR Fold & Learn packs .

LANGUAGE ARTS:

This week I cut out songbirds out of construction paper and wrote Jordan’s spelling words on them.

I made a worksheet with word blocks and he practiced spelling them.

The second week, I made a “complete the sentence” worksheet for him.  He used his songbirds to complete each sentence.

We used our Songbird spelling words to practice putting the words in alphabetical order.

Jordan did an excellent job, especially with words where the first few letters were the same.

Phonics – Make Words:

I created an ABC Spring Birdie Fun pack . You can purchase it here at our TPT store .

Parker used the birdie letters to make words. He did a great job!

We worked on a couple of time elements in addition to our Horizon Math program.

Months of the Year:

Jordan used the Months of the Year cards to put in order and matched them with the coordinating picture from the story.

Parker worked on the Months of the Year cards in order while we say the Months of the Year song.

After working on the Months of the Year cards, the boys completed the worksheets.

Days of the Week:

I created a Mother Robin’s Days of the Week pack for the boys to work on during this row.

Today is Monday:

I put a matching activity on Learning Lane for the kids to work on.

Jordan worked on it the following day.  This was a great exercise to reinforce both story sequence and ordering of the days of the week.

I added several Days of the Week worksheets in the pack.

Jordan worked on the days of the week spelling and abbreviations worksheet.

Parker worked on the spelling the days of the week worksheet.

Counting the Days of the Week:

I added a count the days of the week worksheet so the boys could count how many days were in one week, two weeks, etc..

This was a great addition to Parker’s skip counting by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s.  He did a great job!

This was a great activity for Jordan too.  Learning how many days are in one, two, three, and four weeks is a great addition to his knowledge of time.  He did excellent!

We decided to study birds since grandfather took a liking to songbirds in the book.

I prepared a basket of eggs filled with various toy animals.  I instructed the boys to open each egg and sort the animals by oviparous or non oviparous.

They loved cracking open the eggs and seeing the different animals.  My kids LOVE surprises….who doesn’t, right?

They went through the basket with very little help from me!  Great job boys!

Lifecycle of the Bird:

I needed a cutting activity for Parker’s skill builder activity, so I found a cute lifecycle of a bird printable .

The boys cut apart and colored their worksheets.

ARTS, CRAFTS, & FUN:

Children’s day koinobori:.

We read about Children’s Day in our Spotlight On Japan book.

I printed a K is for Koinobori worksheet I found online (education.com).

The boys painted their koinobori with their watercolors and we set them aside to dry.

Once dry, we cut them apart, taped them together and hung them up with string.  They turned out really cute!

Kamishibai Man:

I rented several books by Allen Say so the kids could experience more of his literary work.

We read  Kamibashibai Man and enjoyed a candy treat just like the kids in the book!  This was a charming tale of a Japanese story teller and his view of changing times….some times the “old” is the sweetest memory we hold dear!

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