Miss Fox's Class Goes Green

Title: Miss Fox's Class Goes Green

Author: Eileen Spinelli

Illustrator: Anne Kennedy

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

www.albertwhitman.com

Publication Date: 2009

Genre: Picture Book

Audience: PreK-Grade 2

Awards: 2010 Green Earth Book Award; 2010 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature Youth Picture Book

Overview: Miss Fox decides to go green and ride her bicycle to school one day. Her students ask her what she is doing and she replies that she is, “going green”. This response sparks an interest in her students and together they brainstorm and act upon other ways that they too can go green. Eventually this catches on and the entire school starts to go green.

Activity: One activity that could be done is to have the students create a poster that advertises recycling and other ways of going green. Another activity would be to have your class participate in a school recycling program by collecting plastic bottles in the cafeteria during lunch or having a bin for recycling paper or anything else that would be helping the environment like what the students in Miss Fox’s class did.

Reviewer's Name: Jennifer Senkevich