If you're looking for a book to teach students about feelings and self regulation, you're going to love Grumpy Monkey. This is a must have book for teaching social emotional learning. Students will be laughing throughout the whole story! - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
Jim Panzee wakes up one morning feeling grumpy. He is very confused and doesn’t know why he feels this way. The other animals in the jungle try to cheer him up, but Jim keeps insisting that he is not grumpy.
Eventually, the other animals push Jim too far trying to make him happy, and he explodes and runs off. It isn’t until he finally admits that he is feeling grumpy, that he begins to feel better.
Boys and girls will love hearing this funny book about identifying emotions and realizing that it is okay to be grumpy.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
While Grumpy Monkey is a great social emotional learning book, it can also teach many academic concepts.
- Practice character analysis and identifying character traits.
- Ask students to make personal connections to the story.
- Get students writing by asking them to continue the story of Grumpy Monkey.
- Engage students in descriptive writing activities based on the story.
- Practice using proper nouns and verb tense.
- Teach students about contractions.
- Discuss the importance of taking ownership and showing empathy to others.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
If you want to teach a comprehensive read aloud for Grumpy Monkey, you NEED this book companion.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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