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From: IN%"cbrown@ualred.ualr.fred.org" 31-AUG-1995 06:43:12.00 To: IN%"cabrown1@ualr.edu" CC: Subj: HIT> GREAT book activities!!!! Return-path: <cbrown@ualred.ualr.fred.org> Received: from UALRFRED (UNKNOWN@UNKNOWN) by UALR.EDU (PMDF V4.2-11 #4503) id <01HUPPCPXGKW002V83@UALR.EDU>; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 06:43:04 CDT Received: by ualred2 FHU79635: Wed, 30 Aug 95 22:07 Version 2.6.2 3feb95 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 20:32 -0500 (cdt) From: cbrown@ualred.ualr.fred.org Subject: HIT> GREAT book activities!!!! To: cabrown1@ualr.edu Message-id: <30 Aug 95 20:43:53@ualred.ualr.fred.org> Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Path: ualr!ualred2!ualred!cbrown Wed, 30 Aug 95 22:07 X-fMailer: GSN Smail2 Version 2.6.2 3feb95; GSN Mailer Version 2.6.2 3feb95 I collected some great ideas when I posted a request for favorite book-activity ideas. I appreciate everyone's time and effort to reply. Here is the HIT that was promised. There are some really creative and worthwhile ideas here. I strongly recommend that you download this file and save for future reference. Carol Brown, LMS in Little Rock *********************************** Have you found the lesson plans submitted by the Presidential Awardees Internet Project? They can be found at http://k12.cnidr.org/pa/pa.html and then using the link to final project. You will find lots of good elementary lessons that incorporte reading, math, science and social studies. Melinda Spear ***************************** Eric Carle's "The Very Busy Spider" Make either a flannelboard picture of each animal, or make it out of paper, and laminate it. I use paper, it lasts much longer. Also have a ball of string, several pushpins, and either a small bulletin board, or cork board. Attach the pushpins to the cork board making a square, with a pin in the middle. Start telling your story placing the characters under your pins. With the pins, start making a spiders web. This can be very off the cuff and unusual looking, every once and awhile, move the fly around. At the end of the story, put the fly in the web. Hope you enjoy this. Jane Scott Dallenscot@aol.com St. Francis Xavier Medina, Ohio ***************************** From: Susie Daniel <DANIELS@russ5g.afsc.k12.ar.us> I use the book Hatchet (we read it all the way through) as a great set for teaching the components (style, setting, character, theme and plot.) It really does show the importance of setting. Susie Daniel media specialist Upper Elem. Fifth Grade Russellville AR> ******************************** On Sun, 13 Aug 1995 AGACarole@aol.com wrote: > To Carol Brown: > Just a favorite item from a 4/5th grade teacher (who, by the way, was just notified that I will now be teaching Spanish, ESL, and World Geography--maybe French in our Huntsville High School ...ohmy gosh )I hope you tell everyone about BAREBOOKS because I think they are a wonderful way for children to create books. BareBooks are regular plain books at a reasonable price (as cheap as $1.00) if ordered in quantity. > Children can write or type and paste as well as draw right in the books themselves. It creates a very professional looking book for the kids. If you are not savy about BAREBOOKS, please let me know and I will try to find their address. I soon will be in the process of moving and things may be harder to find. > ************************************* From: IN%"cleflar@rps.nwsc.k12.ar.us" "Cathy Leflar" Carol, For great fun with group participation stories, try using Group Meeting Sparklers that can be ordered from the Boy Scouts of America! ************************************* On Sat, 12 Aug 1995 CABROWN1@ualr.edu wrote: Carol, I am Karen Wiggins, a kindergarten teacher at George Elem. in Sprigdale Arkansas. Last year I bought a bunny. To introduce it to the class I first read the Velveteen Rabbit and let them each hug my toy velveteen rabbit as they went out to recess. I then placed it in the place that I was to keep "Sniffer". Coming back to the classroom, they were convenced that their love and hug changed that bunny. That was so much fun that I plan to do it each year before I bring Sniffer to school. Later we had a race with the turtle in Miss Petter's room to go with still another book. I hope you can use our book activities in your workshop. Keep up the good work. Karen ********************************** Please share all the ideas that you get - that should compensate us richly for sharing. My newest favorite is Brown Angels by Walter Dean Myers. It is a collection of old photos of African American children paired with poems by Myers that are truly touching. It makes a great writing activity to have students write a story about one of the pictures, or use old photos that you have collected (estate sales are a great resource) or have students each bring in a picture and then swap. ______________________________________ Jamie Boston, Librarian Birch Lane Elementary 1600 Birch Lane Davis, CA 95616 916-757-5395/5413(FAX) jamieb@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us A Davis Community Network Sponsored Project ************************************** Greetings from beautiful St. Simons Island, one of Georgia's barrier isles. Internet access will enable your students to grow up thinking how small our world really is. Our students love using HyperStudio to creat book review "stacks". They then hook a computer up to their classroom tv set and share with each other. -- Paula Galland - Glynn Co. Schools - St. Simons Isl., GA paula@freenet.fsu.edu *********************************************************** To: Carol Brown, and others Franklin School From: Susan Peterson, UCA What a great idea! Carol: One of my all-time favorite books is Patricia Reilly Giff's Today Was a _Terrible_ Day. (Something we all can identify with!) At the point where "Snakey" is sent home with a note from the teacher, I ask students to write what they think the teacher wrote in the note. Actually, I used this activity in my college classes to talk about classroom management, etc., but I've always wanted to do the activity with elementary school age kids. I'm sure they would enjoy being the "teacher" in the story. I hope someone tries it -- let me know! **************************** Carol, Our third graders love R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps" and I've steered their teachers to his www home page <http://scholastic.com:2005/public/ stine-home.html> for his bio, etc. ....Madelynne Johnson.....Librarian, The Bush School (K-12) 405 36th Avenue E, Seattle WA 98112 madelynn@helen.bush.edu ******************************* One that has sparked a lot of interest is an activity that we do after reading the book: How my parents learned to eat, to second grade classes. I dress in a kimono, and ask students to remove their shoes as they enter the library. We look at Japan on a globe and talk about where the non-fiction books on Japan are located in our library. Then I read the book. Next we spread out a blanket,.I demonstrate how to hold chopsticks. Each child is given a pair of wooden chopsticks,and asked to sit on their knees, Japanese style. I then place a handful of popcorn in front of each child and tell them they may have as much popcorn as they can eat...but they must pick up the popcorn with the chopsticks. They take the chopsticks home with them . (Almost all Oriental food stores carry wooden chopsticks and they are quite inexpensive) Priscilla Seeley Farley Elementary School Huntsville, Alabama pbseeley@aol.com ************************************ One of my favorite activities I do with kinders at the beginning of the year when the teachers are all concentrating on colors. Using Lionni's "Little Blue and Little Yellow" have have re-made the pages larger ({12x18) and used scraps of paper to re-create the pages. (I have often pondered if this is a copyright violation...but I think it falls within fair use as I am only using it for my classroom...the book is so small to share with 25 bodies...I do show the book to them first; if it would come out in Big Book form, then I would use that...) After sharing the story, we discuss whether blue and yellow do make green. Of course, you are going to get both emphatic "yes" and "no" answers. So, to demonstrate, I have several clear plastic cups of water and liquid food coloring. I put in blue food coloring enough to make the water a good strong blue. Then we count drops of yellow food coloring going in to see how many it takes to make it green. I do the same thing with other primary colors and sometimes a few more, depending on the curiosity of the group. Someone usually asks what happens when you mix all three colors...so we try it. The kids really think it is fun and it is a great concrete explantion of colors. Now...you realize that many of us are going to want a copy of this compliation ourselves....would you please consider printing enough extra copies so that those interested can order one (paying for printing and mailing costs of course!)??? Barb Baker Library Media and Technology Specialist John Campbell School Selah, WA "800 munchkins, K-2" <cbrown@ualred.ualr.fred.org> ------------------ 34.43.48N, 92.14.32W Carol Brown Library Media Specialist, Little Rock, Arkansas