HIT> FAVORITE BOOK ACTIVITIES PT 2

[Carol Brown <CABROWN1@UALR.EDU>]

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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
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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
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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
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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>
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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.
>
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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!
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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

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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

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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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"

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Carol Brown
Library Media Specialist, Little Rock, Arkansas