Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.

have the children rewrite the story with a new ending

Objective: To have the children explore how we change bad days into good days.

Activity: In groups, have the children rewrite the story with a new ending. Remind them of the colors the illustrator used to depict the gloom of the bad day and ask them to add color to their endings when they illustrate them.
Assessment: The originality of the new endings and the fun the children have doing the assignment.