Kindergarten

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=Children's Book Review=


 * ~ Book ||~ Description ||~ Classroom Implementation ||
 * [[image:BrownBear.png]] || ====__ Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? __ is a picture book with very simple words and colorful pictures, great for the beginning reader. The author, Bill Martin, Jr., takes the reader from page to page with a question: "What do you see?" Each page introduces a new character, including a brown bear, red bird, blue horse, and purple cat, all of which are pictured above. One character sees another character, which is then revealed on the next page. Each character sees another in a predictable sequence. Near the end of the book, a goldfish spies a teacher, possibly from its bowl in a classroom. The teacher then sees children looking at her. Finally, the children go through and can see each character that was previously named in the book so that the reader can repeat the words, colors, and animals. This is a great book to use to practice colors and animals with young children. This predicable picture book can also serve as a medium for a fun question and answer game between the teacher and students. ==== || ==== This book would be great for a weeklong lesson plan. I would start on Monday by introducing the book to the children along with the author and illustrator. We would then do a picture walk of the book before I read it too them. Throughout the week I would incorporate in language arts by using digraphs, colors, and beginning sounds. On Friday we would do a recap of the week by reading the book while letting the kids act out the different roles of the animals and which animals they see. ==== ||
 * [[image:TheGruffalo.png]] || "A gruffalo? What's a gruffalo?" "A gruffalo! Why, didn't you know? He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws." And so begins the story of a quick-witted mouse as he encounters a host of predators who seem to think he might make a tasty treat. As he ventures deeper into the deep dark wood, stumbling across a hungry fox, a not-so-wise owl, and a slimy snake, spinning ever-extraordinary yarns about the scary, scaly gruffalo, he quickly realizes that the hungry beast he has been talking of isn't imaginary after all. || This book would be a great way to introduce the students to words that rhyme. They could start by listening to the book being read to them and then we would read it again to listen closely for the rhyming words. We would make a list of the words on the board and they would give me words that could also rhyme with the words listed. On a final note they would have a worksheet where they would circle the word that would rhyme with the picture given to them. This particular book could also be used to help students to understand sequencing of simple events, such as, which order did the gruffalo encounter the animals. ||
 * [[image:ChickaCHicka.png]] || ==== This engaging book is about the lowercase letters climbing a coconut tree in alphabetical order until the tree has too many letters and it bends so much that the letters fall. The uppercase letters (which are personified as the older relatives or parents) come their rescue to help them from the tree. ==== || ==== This book would be great to use in several different ways. The first way I would use it would be to buy a coconut and have it in a bag and the children would pass it around and stick their hands in to observe what’s inside only by touching the coconut. The coconut activity could be used before you read the book for the first time and then the coconut can be put to the side to use either in science or math for further exploration. This would be a book to use in the beginning of the year to begin the exploration of the alphabet and to even help them with knowing and writing their names by having them make a name coconut tree. The possibilities for using this book inside a classroom are endless. ==== ||

=Reading Toolbox=

=Thematic Unit= media type="custom" key="26706456"
 * ~ Project ||~ File ||
 * ==The Jungle-Science== || [[file:Thematic Weekly Lesson.docx]] ||
 * ==The Jungle-PE== || [[file:Thematic Lesson PE.docx]] ||