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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:10:19 -0500
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Colleagues

As I sit here clearing out old messages a question came to mind. Where
do the deleted email messages go, they do not seem to end up in the
recycling box?

Thanx

Bev Boyd
Teacher Librarian
Bayside Secondary School
Belleville, Ont
bboyd@hpedsb.on.ca

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Subject: HIT: Lois Ehlert alph. book lessons

LM_Netters:

Thank you so much to all who replied. All of the ideas were extremely helpful
for not only the alphabet book, but other Ehlert books as well.  As some of
you requested, here is a listing of the responses to my posting:

Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 09:54:15 -0500
From: KAREN DEFRANK <KDEFRANK@glassboro.k12.nj.us>
You could always go to the grocery store and get some of the more unusual
things that are listed in the book.  Then you could have a tasting party.



Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:04:30 -0500
From: Sharron L. McElmeel <mcelmeel@mcelmeel.com>
Harcourt has a 4 page flyer about just this topic.  You can contact them to
receive one free.
Sharron


Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:53:19 -600
From: cathyl@woodrow.k12.ar.us
We have a group making alphabet book....using Ehlert's book as
an example.  Good Luck!!!  Cathy
Cathy Lattus, Media Specialist
Woodrow Wilson Elementary
900 West Emerson Street
Paragould, Arkansas
cathyl@woodrow.k12.ar.us



Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:20:05 -0500 (EST)
From: M. Ellen Jay <mejay@umd5.umd.edu>
Hi,
In connection with our first grade unit on food I usually do a lesson
making a bar graph representing the part of the plant one is eating when
eating different vegetables.  I include examples of roots (beets, carrots
etc) seeds (peas, corn etc.) stems (celery) flowers (brocholi, artichokes,
cauliflower) seedpods (beansm tomatoes, cucumbers, okra etc) and leaves
(spinach, lettuce etc).  I name a vegetable and they decide which plant
part it is and we make tally marks.  Vegetables they are unfamiliar with
we discuss and share pictures etc.  We total the tally marks and then
construct a bar graph.  Integrates graphing from math (and an information
literacy skill for interpretation of info) science and social studies.  We
now use a graphing program in the computer lab so it also involves
technology.  When the graph is done I ask questions requiring them to
interpret the relationships visualized by the graph. In an more inner city
school I did the activity with older students and had many who didn't know
they were eating seeds when they were eating
corn. I am in a more rural area with family gardens so the background
knowledge is better even with the young ones.

Ellen


Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 18:08:19 -0700
From: dperine <dperine@earthlink.net>
Hi, Kim,

The first grade classes in my school did a Lois Ehlert Author Study this
year & last year.  We read lots of her books.

The first grade teachers at my school did the following activities when
they were studying Lois Ehlert:

1.  Last year:  Noticed the bright colors, the labels, the collage artwork
on the vegetables - especially the multi- pieces for the ear of corn.  We
looked at her web site.
Next we read the book "Stone Soup"-  just because of the vegetable theme.
The students created Lois Ehlert style vegetables out of scraps of brightly
colored construction paper.  Each student pasted their vegetable on a
longsheet of paper.  After the vegetable was pasted on the long sheet of
paper,
the students wrote the name of the vegetable near the vegetable (label).

Students brought in vegetables to the classroom.  All the classrooms made
vegetable soup.
We labeled  the long sheet of paper our Lois Ehlert Author Study -
Vegetables (or something like that).
I took photos, of the students working and folded up the charts and sent
them to Ms. Ehlert.  She sent a brief note on a small poster.  That was
neat to read to the students as they began their work this year.

2.  This year we did mostly the same things, except for the final
products.  They were"
1.  A bright blue sheet of paper.  On it the students glued bright colored
fish they made from neon color paper.  Each fish was first glued on to a
stiffer construction paper.  Students trimmed the construction paper so
their fish were not too large.  Around each fish the students wrotedescribing
words (stripes, pink, spotted, etc.) using chalk.  We cut out
letters for LOIS EHLERT FISH using the neon paper.  Some letters were
regular letters & some were the square open letters that were the result of
cutting out the regular letters on a letter cutting machine.

2.  One class did a very long poster - using the roll paper.  Each student
cut out the shape of both their hands on neon color paper.  The students
used strips of first grade writing paper to write what they like to do with
their hands.  We glued the students' sentence strips on the paper and put
their hands on both sides of their sentence strip.
The poster has two columns of hands & sentences.  Lengthwise along the
right edge of the poster we wrote the name Lois Ehlert in glitter glue.

Both these posters are still hanging in the hallways.  They are so charming
because of their bright color.  They look like an advertisement to come
work with the library. There is one more first grade teacher who has yet to
finish a final
product.  We have discussed doing a vibrant paint art piece (poster) on one
long roll of white paper.  To make it meaningful we discussed doing this
activity to music.  Not just any music, but bright vibrant music.  Perhaps
we will complete the poster before the end of the year.

That is what we did with Lois Ehlert.  The teachers thanked me because none
of them were familiar with the author.   I think there is no end to the
kind of projects you could do.  How about some kind of cut page from each
student?  Her cut pages are so much fun.

So, Kim, if any of this is what you are looking for, use it.  If you have
any suggestions - please share with me.  I am always looking for ideas.
Perhaps you will post a hit of the ideas you receive.

Thanks,
Mary Perine

Library Media Specialist
Cherry Drive Elementary
Thornton, CO 80233
Mary_Perine@ceo.cudenver.edu


Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 05:46:31 EST
From: PMcalli718@aol.com
Have you seen the Meet Lois Ehlert video?  In it she explains how she went to
the grocery store with a list....with one letter of the alphabet on it!  It
showed her shopping with her "list" and picking up different fruits and
vegetables saying..."banana?...no......etc and then choosing asparagus,
artichokes, etc.  Then it showed her creating the paper and cutting out the
shapes.  If your population has the economic where with all to do this, have
the kids bring in real vegetables/fruits and let them paint them on paper and
do their own book.  OR, you and your teacher bring in some of the vegetables
(asparagus is foreign to them, and should be more plentiful and cheap,
now)...and let them paint them on paper.....Let them BE lois ehlert!

Penny McAllister, Librarian
Central Elementary School
Tuscaloosa, AL  35401


Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:24:54 -0800 (PST)
From: holly tindall <hftindall@yahoo.com>
WE have computers in the library and on kidpix I have
each child create their own page for a letter with any
type of food or foods that start with the letter they
are assigned and do a class book, but you could have
the kids hand do also. It can also be mounted on large
bulletin board paper like an ABC quilt.

Just a couple of idesas that I do,

Holly Tindall
IMC Specialist
Northpoint School
Bloomington, IL


Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:24:13 -0500
From: Connie Worley <cworley@stephens.k12.ga.us>
I heard her speak once and she said that to paint all the fruits and
vegetable, she would go to the market and only buy things that began with
the letter that she was working on at the time.  Then of course she would
eat them when she finished painting them.

Also, you can get a video on Lois Ehlert from Library Video Company. She's a
wonderfully, talented person.

Have fun!

Connie B. Worley
Media Specialist
Liberty Elementary



Thank you again,
Kim MacKerron
Library Media grad student, Towson University
student teacher, Sparks Elementary
kmacke1@tiger.towson.edu

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