First Day Book-Big Al

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First Day Book-Big Al
By Robin

I recommend Big Al by Andrew Clements. I have not used it as a first day book, but I have used it for character education.

Here's the description from Amazon.com:

Poor Big Al! He just wants to make friends. And in
the whole wide blue sea you can't find a nicer fish. But because Big Al is large and scary-looking, the little fish are afraid to get to know him.
What can he do? He tries everything he can think of -- from disguising himself with seaweed to burrowing under the ocean floor so he'll look smaller. But something always goes wrong, and lonely Big Al wonders if he'll ever have a single friend.

Then one frightening day, when a fishing net captures the other fish, Big Al gets the chance to prove what a wonderful friend he can be!

My students have brainstormed ways in which Big Al exhibited each of our character education words.