Everything you need to understand or teach Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes.
Martha Boyle is out of school for summer vacation and she and her family are preparing for their annual trip to the ocean. One day there's a knock on the door and Martha answers to discover a woman standing there. The woman introduces herself as Olive Barstow's mother. Olive was in Martha's class at school but had been hit by a car while riding her bicycle and died only a few...
Olive's Ocean Lesson Plans contain 138 pages of teaching material, including: