Choose a random photo of a place, person or animal from a magazine or an advertisement flyer. Help children expand their creativity and storytelling skills.
You can also ask each other questions like, “If you had to pick between chips and pretzels, which snack would you pick?” You can also add humor and be creative with your questions, such as, “If you had to be an animal, which animal would you be? Take turns naming categories like snacks, TV shows, playground games, books, ice cream flavors, etc. Suggested Activities For “Waiting is Not Easy” What kinds of things/events are easier to wait for? Harder? Help children make a list of the things that they have to wait for and discuss with them how they feel if they have to wait. Call attention to Piggie’s and Gerald’s facial expressions and how they change as the story progresses (Gerald’s expressions vary greatly from excitement to frustration, to anguish, to worry). Reading “Waiting is Not Easy” to a group of children: engaging and activating children throughout the story: As you turn each page, see if children can guess what Piggie wants Gerald to wait for. Can he keep a secret? Does he feel bad that Gerald is finding it so hard to wait? This book presents very relevant and familiar topics that a teacher or a parent can explore with children. Piggie must also have feelings about the waiting situation he has created. Waiting requires self-control and children can certainly experience a myriad of emotions as they wait frustration, anger, fear of the unknown, excitement, worry etc. Sometimes he is able to be patient and calm, but sometimes he is not. Children can readily empathize with Gerald as he tries so hard to patiently wait for Piggie’s surprise.
Waiting can be so hard (especially this time of year with holidays galore). How does “Waiting is Not Easy” support the emotional development of young children?
Gerald groans, complains some, and almost decides not to wait, but he hangs on and experiences the lovely surprise at the end – a beautiful starry night. Gerald and Piggie are best friends.In Waiting Is Not Easy!, Piggie has a surprise for Gerald, but he is going to have to wait and wait, and then wait some more until he can find out what it is. Lucy’s Book Club – Waiting is Not Easy by Mo Willems
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