Play "The Hello, Goodbye Window" audible book as you show your students the book illustrations. Discuss what the little girl said and did at her grandparents' house and what she saw when she looked through the hello, goodbye window. Discuss what might have been real and what might have been a fantasy in the story. Give the children crayons and paper and let them draw their favorite parts of the story. Allow children to share their pictures with a reading partner or the whole class.
Let your students paint a watercolor picture of someone or something that they would like to see when they look through the hello, goodbye window (a loved one, a dinosaur, a superhero or a queen, for example). Cut out one-inch-wide strips of construction paper; when the paint on the pictures is dry, have your students glue the strips around the outside of their pictures to make window frames. Each student can write or dictate a caption for their picture, and then you can place the pictures and captions on a bulletin board.
Give your students magazines and newspapers with pictures that show windows (interior design and home improvement magazines, for example). Use photo-editing software to design windows with exciting animals and people in them. Print enough copies of the windows for all of your students. Have your students cut out the windows and glue them to construction paper to make a hello, goodbye window collage.
For your "Hello, Goodbye Window" walk, collect a variety of funny, interesting and exciting pictures to place in some of the windows in your classroom. Invite other teachers, administrators and school workers to be a part of the walk. The adult participants can read and share the book with others, place pictures in their windows and walk with the students.
Begin your walk by having the students first look at your classroom windows. Then have them walk around the campus and look through the windows of other participating teachers, librarians, cafeteria workers and administrators. When the walk is over, let your class discuss what they saw on their walk. If you have pre-kindergartners let them draw pictures about the walk and dictate captions for the class book. If you have kindergartners or first-graders let them write about what they saw and draw an illustration in their writing journal.