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The librarian at our school read "The Turnip" the other day. It is a multicultural book about a man who plants a turnip and then it gets so big he cant pull it out of the ground. It is a repitition story that young children will be able to help tell. They would also be able to "read" the story themselves by looking at the illustrations. Check it out if you need another picture book/multicultural entry for your annotated bibliography.

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I read a cute book that talks about the 100th day of school called "100th day worries" by Margery Cuyler. It is the story of this little girl Jessica who worries about everything. When the teacher gives the students the assignment to bring in 100 of an item-Jessica stresses about what she could possibly bring in. At the end she brought in 10 each of 10 different items from different people in her family and events. When she showed the teacher, he said she was the first person in all his years of teaching that brought in 100 things of love. This is a cute book to read for the 100th day, after going over what your students brought in for the same assignment as in the story. I like that there was a lesson in the story about how we sometimes can worry a lot about something that we really didn't need to worry about at all. IT can help to teach children coping skills.

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The teacher I work with brought in a great new book the other day to school. It is called "The Old Woman Who Named Things" by Cynthia Rylant. She is the author of the Henry and Mudge books. This was a real cute story about an old woman who outlived all of her friends. She didnt make any new ones because she was so sad when everyone else died. That is why she named everything. One day a puppy comes to her gate. She tells it to go away, but she feeds it first. It comes every day and she does the same thing, but never names it. Then one day the dog doesn't show up and she is very worried and sad. I won't tell you any more of the story-- you should read it to find out what happens next!
I hope everyone has a great Spring Break!

Wendy

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Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco is a really cute multicultural story about a visit she took as a little girl to her Grandmother's farm. She is afraid of the the thunderstorm and is hiding under the bed. Her grandmother gets her to come out by suggesting they make thunder cake. The story has them collecting the ingredients and counting the time between each lightning strike and thunder claps to determine how far away the storm was. This is a good way to introduce a lesson on weather. You can also do a segment on measurements for math class.

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Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco is a really cute multicultural story about a visit she took as a little girl to her Grandmother's farm. She is afraid of the the thunderstorm and is hiding under the bed. Her grandmother gets her to come out by suggesting they make thunder cake. The story has them collecting the ingredients and counting the time between each lightning strike and thunder claps to determine how far away the storm was. This is a good way to introduce a lesson on weather. You can also do a segment on measurements for math class.

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HAVE YOU EVER READ "IS YOUR MAMA A LLAMA?"I LOVE THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN IN RIDDLES AND CHILDREN CAN TRY TO GUESS WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL IS TALKING BECAUSE THE STORY RHYMES. THIS IS GOOD FOR SMALL CHILDREN. IT INTRODUCES SOME FACTS ABOUT EACH ANIMAL IN THE STORY AND OPENS THE DOOR TO LESSONS ON THE DIFFERENT ANIMALS. TEACHERS CAN COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS OF THE BOOK. THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE GREAT TOO.WENDY P.
Posted by wendy at 5:31 PM