The Lemonade Hurricane is part of our Starts With a Story Collection, which includes more than 550 picture book companions based on high quality children’s literature that support you in delivering highly-engaging interactive read alouds with follow up activities. Learn more about this children’s book below! - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
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SUMMARY
"The Lemonade Hurricane" by Licia Morelli is a children's book that explores the concept of mindfulness through the eyes of a young girl named Emma. The story follows Emma as she learns to cope with her lemonade loving brother Henry who is always energetic and sometimes overwhelming, causing Emma to refer to him as a lemonade hurricane. Emma wishes she could help calm her younger brother down because he is fun to hang out with when he isn't being a lemonade hurricane! Through many calming strategies and looking up to his big sister, Henry learns to slow down, observe his thoughts, and find a sense of inner calm even in the midst of chaos. The book skillfully combines the themes of sibling dynamics, mindfulness, and emotional regulation to provide children with a relatable and accessible way to understand and practice mindfulness in their daily lives.
 USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Our read aloud lesson plans for this picture book come with reading comprehension questions (with sample student responses), 30 writing prompts, teaching ideas for grammar skills, social emotional learning discussion ideas, and more. Check out our list below to get a sneak peek at some of the skills this resource teaches.
- Analyze the illustrations in the story. Discuss how they provide meaning that the words might not.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Introduce and act out action verbs.
- Use examples from the book to teach a lesson on punctuation.
- Discuss mindfulness with students and practice a mindfulness activity with them. Paste teaching ideas here.Â
- Discuss the importance of self regulation.
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
- 30Â 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
This book is a must have for your school or classroom library. Your students are going to love completing these activities for the book and you will be impressed with how much they learn. You will want to read this book to your class every year.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will love the similar books listed below, which can all be found in our free picture book list.
- Mindful Mr. Sloth by Katy Hudson
- The Sloth Who Slowed Us Down by Margaret Wild
- The Couch Potato by Jory John
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