This entertaining children’s book shows how negative emotions can affect us and wreak havoc in our lives. The story makes a perfect lesson for elementary children about emotions and feelings. This is ideal for early grades and lends to many great exploratory questions and emotional topics for sharing or journaling.
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Sample text from The Jealousy Germ by
Emilius, the baker, and his assistant Bekim would very often talk with the materials they used in their recipes: the flour, the sugar, the cheese, the salt, the olive oil, the yeast, the butter, the raisins, the sesame, and a whole lot of others. Together, they were a great team; they got on well with one another and always helped each other.
And all was well until, late one night, the terrible jealousy germ stepped into the bakery.
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Ideas for Exercises:
What should you do if you feel jealous? Write down or discuss three ideas.
When was a time you felt a bad emotion, and what was it? Write or discuss how you felt and what you could have done to change the way you were feeling.
Think of a time when you were feeling badly towards someone else, did you act on the emotion? What happened? What could you have done differently?
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I really enjoyed this book. I’m a teacher from Mexico city and my students love this online page.
thank you for share these books!!
Good message about getting along for all.
I agree!!!
Very good lesson
Good book
Yes, I liked it.
It was cute with a great message!!
yes, because it had sweets, sugar, dounts. It was fun and easy to read.
Great
Character names too difficult for ESL in Asia
Yes, I admit they are even rather tricky for EFL – this is a Book of Greek origin, so they are probably mostly suitable in that region. Still I like the way these Greek books are written, and it’s a sweet story so I include it here.
Yes, they are even rather tricky for EFL – this is a book from Greece so more suited to that part of the world, but the story is very sweet. Y