Series

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems

16 episodes

When the Kennedy Center closed in March 2020, its first Education Artist-in-Residence opened his studio instead and posted a doodle session every weekday. Each roughly twenty-minute episode is a draw-along: the Pigeon, Gerald the Elephant, Piggie assembled from a letter J and a number 3, Knuffle Bunny, Leonardo the terrible monster. Others pivot to making, with paper finger puppets, a flipbook, and an invented game called Super Bounce that runs across the whole series. Willems keeps insisting your version should not look like his. Fifteen episodes plus a graduation and a one-year reunion; good for an illustrating block or indoor recess.

what this series covers

What Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems covers

16 episodes in the library, tagged for Pre-K–5th. Heaviest coverage: Reading & Writing (ELA). Between them they line up with 7 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

Pre-K: 4
K: 16
1st: 16
2nd: 16
3rd: 12
4th: 2
5th: 2

Episodes per subject

Reading & Writing (ELA): 16

Common Core — ELA 7

W.K.3Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event and tell about the events in order.
RL.K.7With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.
RL.1.7Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
RL.2.7Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
SL.K.1Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts.
RL.3.7Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words of a story.

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