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Herman Parish " The Ameila Bedeila Books"

Http://www.harpercollinschildren.com

Everyone loves Ameila Bedeila, the literal minded house keeper! When she makes a sponge cake, she puts in real sponges, when she weeds the garden, she replants the weeds, and when she picthes a tent, she throws it into the woods.

No child can resist Ameila Bedeila and her literal trips through the minefield of the english language-and no adult can fail to notice that she's usually right when she's wrong.

Other book titles include: Ameila Bedeila talks turkey, Ameila Bedeila and the cat, Ameila Bedeila's first valentine, etc...

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Author Alan Katz Http://alankatzbooks.com/pages/katzsilly.html

Book " Take me out of the bathtub"

The book was relased in May 2001. It was illustrated by David Catrow. The book includes silly dilly book parodies such as "stinky dinky diaper change." and "The yougart flies straight from my brother." There are 14 silly dilly songs in all. They are all done with a popular song everybody knows and loves. These books really get kids involved in reading books.

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Read alouds are a fun way to get children of all ages involved in reading. Even the older students like books to be read to them. In classrooms teachers can create an authors corner to get kids interested in different authors. With read alouds kids can participate in listening centers. Children can be asked to predict what they think will happen next, or how the story might end. We can also ask the students how they think a certain character felt or may be feeling in a certain situation. Read alouds open many doors of opportunity for classroom discussions and group activity. This is a wonderful way to instill the love of reading in our students.

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Nonfiction books are informational books as well as biographies, these books are designed to answer questions, and finding information on a person, or topic. Accuracy is the most important of a nonfiction book. This can be found by checking the authors jacket flap, or the about the author page at the back of the book. A lot of times when doing research nonfiction books are not fun to read because you have to do it for your grade. It can be reassuring knowing that the book you choose was a valid fiction book. Books can be nonfiction and fun to read. If you are interested in dinosaurs, You can read for fun a factual book on dinosaurs. The book I liked was the story of Jane Goodall's dog in the hospital who helped heal her patients with his compassion for people. In checking the jacket sleeve we found the book was based on a true story which fell under the guidelines of nonfiction. There are a lot of nonfiction books which can get students involved in reading and capture their interests while learning something new.

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Chapter eight is about fiction. Fiction is a fun subject. Fiction is anything that you could possibly imagine. Fiction comes in four types: Contemporary, Historical, Fantasy, and Science fiction. My favorite type of fiction is fantasy. The type that involves a princess living in a magical kingdom where there are nights, trolls, witches, wizards, and a hero. Fiction stories involve a setting, where the story takes place, the plot, a series of events with a beginning, middle and end. Fiction also has conflicts where Character vs. self, society, nature, supernatural, or even technology. Fiction stories can be told from different points of view, as in the fractured fairy tale the three little pigs.

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The subject I enjoyed the most in this chapter was the fractured fairy tales. This subject was the perfect way to get a student involved with traditional literature. As a teacher we can introduce the traditional fairy tales to the students and then show them what is called the fractured fairytale. One of the most popular one is the story of the three little pigs. Everybody knows the story of the three little pigs, but it is a lot of fun to hear the story told from the wolf's point of view. We can also use this to open up other activities. we can turn the classroom into a courthouse putting the wolf on trial. Students learn a great deal when they get involved with the story working together.

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Chapter five was about poetry. Poetry is one of my favorite genres of literature. I grew up reading the shel silverstein books. My favorite poem in that book was the story of ticklish tom.
The best element about children's poetry is that they have a rhythm and a rhyme which engages the reader and has their full attention. Poetry can take any shape you can make with the words. Poetry doesn't always have to rhyme. It can also appeal to your emotions, it can be happy, sad, serious, or even just for fun. you can enjoy reading poetry from any culture. I had my girls enjoying poetry at a young age. On of the first poetry books I bought for them was "Are you quite polite" by Alan Katz and David catrow. My girls really enjoyed the silly stories. One of my favorite stories from this book is "Drinkin' at the Fountain".

Oh, don't put your mouth
On the waterspout
When your drinkin ' at the fountain every day
Your breath's like trout
We can do without
And your tongue is a wormy germ buffet!

What a smell
I'm not well
So I'll yell, Please get away!
And from now on I am trusting
That you wont be so disgusting
(And stop drinkin' from the toilet, by the way!)

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Chapter four was about how we respond to literature. After reading the chapter I really agreed with the section on schemata and background knowledge on the subject of the books our children are reading. A child will have more fun reading books if they can connect the books to the events happening in their lives, community, and the world around them. If the students interests and preferences are met our students have the chance to broaden their horizons and read authentic meaningful literature. As teachers we can create libraries which contain a vast variety that meet all of our students reading preferences. When children engage in their reading, we can have them respond to what they read through discussion, retelling the story, and even oral responses. Children can also respond to literature through arts, drama, and music by having puppet shows, readers theater, and even making venn diagrams.

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A really good childrens aurthor is Daine De Groat

She has a book called "No time for homework"

When Mrs. Byrd gives the class homework for the weekend, Gilbert just cant seem to find the time to do it. Thats because its almost christmas, and Gilbert has other important things to do , like decorating Christmas cookies, ice skating with his friends, and helping his family finf the perfect Christmas tree. What will Gilbert do when Monday morning comes? The joyous holiday feeling around Gilbert's house comes alive in this funny, festive story that's perfect for anyone who's ever put off a chore.

Other De Groat stories include: Roses are pink, Your FEET REALLY stink!, and Happy Birthday too you, You belong in a zoo.

Http://www.author-illustr-source.com/dianedegroat.htm

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A really great childrens author is Nancy Elizabeth Wallace. She writes and illustrates her own books. Her books are fun and educational, they really inspire young readers. Her website is:

Http://www.nancyelizabethwallace.com/html/reviews01.html#look

Some of her books and the reviews are:

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When children read they make a connection and have an understanding of what they read. Most students have background knowledge or a past schema where they can build off of past events to get a better understanding of what they read. When a student reads a book where they do not have any prior knowledge they will do poorly in an assessment. If a child from Maine was given a set of books to read about Texas rodeo season, they could not make a connection because they would lack schema to understand the concept.

As teachers we should try to give children books which will match all of their interest which will ensure a successful reading. We can see what the student knows about the reading and what the student's still need to know. By discussing the material it helps our students bridge the gap.

Having students retell stories is a really fun way to see what students have gained from what they have read. it is also a good tool to evaluate a students comprehension. We can ask students what they think would happen next, or ask them who a certain character reminds them of, What did they like about the story, and what they did not like.

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Teaching children to read is a wonderful quality to have. There is nothing better than teaching a child to develop good reading attitudes. Having a well rounded selection of books from many different types of genres will help give our children the joy in selecting books which will interest and motivate the young readers. Children like to have the chance to discuss what they have read in a social environment. This helps them reinforce the new material they have just read and get each others opinion.

As teachers we should encourage reading. All children love to be read to. We can use activities such as read alouds, and literature circles. The children can share their ideas and create writing journals. cooperative learning is a very positive resource in the classroom. It helps children see the big picture. They can looks past the stories they read and decide what they think might happen next. One of the greatest ways we learn is by challenging kids to think and predict the events they feel might happen next in a story.

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Precious Penny

and the potted plants.

Penny loved potted plants.

She had all kinds of plants.

Penny had pansies

on the porch.

Priceless potted peppers

are placed in the parlor.

Plenty of parsley and peppermint

are planted in pot and pans in

Penny's kitchen.

Penny had pretty petunias

in her pantry.

Precious Penny has potted

poinsettias in her office.

Penny put a perfectly potted

pinetree in the bathroom.

Penny placed poppies and

perennials in pots full of potting soil

in her bedroom.

Precious Penny had so many

potted plants,

even the prickly pears poked her puppy Peter!

Precious Penny has lots of

pretty potted plants at her house.

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Talking

Talking benefits students in the classroom because it gives them a chance to communicate with each other and share ideas. The students can learn a lot from each other. Students can engage in classroom debates. The students could read a story and talk as a group to decide what they think should happen next. Students could read poetry aloud and discuss what they thought it was about. Talking gives student the opportunity to share their point of view and learn new ideas from their classmates. Students can even have fun with talking and act out a play and be silly, but they are still learning the content and reading the literature. Talking gives teachers an opportunity to have an interactive and fun filled classroom.

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Memories

One memory that could make you cry was the memory I have about the day my daughter got hurt. My oldest daughter, Amanda was only 3 and a half years old. The baby was about 15 months. She had just learned how to walk and run. The girls were playing together stacking peek-a-blocks on the carpet, and they were having lots of fun. My husband had just came home from work and it was time for me to leave for work. I had looked over at the pile of blocks on the carpet and thought "should I make the kids pick up the blocks?" unfortunately I did not. I got in my car and headed off to work. My routine is I talk to my husband on the way to work, on my cell phone. I had not gotten far from the house when I heard a blood curdling scream come through the phone and then the phone had gone dead. At this point I was in a full panic. I turned the car around in the middle of sommerset road. My cell phone rang, it was my husband. In a scared and shaken up voice he said "Amanda has had an accident, she has knocked out her teeth and I don't know what to do! Will you please come back and help me!"

I entered my gate going 40 miles an hour, how I did not crash god only knows. As I walked into my house I saw a puddle of blood on the carpet with a trail leading to the bathroom. There stood my baby girl standing on a phone book crying with a swollen face and blood pouring out of her mouth. I was horrified. The only thing going through my mind was that it was all my fault because I did not make them pick up the blocks. Amanda had chased her baby sister and fell face first into the blocks they had previously been stacking. She knocked front three baby teeth outward and caused tissue damage to her jaw. We spent 6 hours in the emergency room. They had Amanda on codine for almost 10 days until she could get dental surgery repair the damage. She had a pediatric parcial at the age of 3 and a half. They said she may not get her permanent teeth. About 3 years later she cut her adult teeth. We were very happy that was a true blessing.

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I found a really unique author. His name is Eric A. Kimmel, he writes a lot of children's books. One of his books I really enjoyed was Anansi and The Magic Stick. The book was about a spider that was too lazy to clean his house. He found a magic stick in the hyenas yard, he took the stick home. He used the stick to clean his yard, but all the trash went into his friends yard. Aanasi fell asleep while watering his yard, it soon created a lake and all the animals rebuilt their homes and had lakeside homes. I thought this story was really cute. This author may many other books such as Anansi the Spider Party, The Frog Princess, Anansi Goes Fishing, Anansi and the Talking Melon, and many others. This author also post a teachers guide to his books which you can download free online. http://www.ericakimmel.com/guides.htm

Another very interesting author is Jane Belk Moncure, she has tons of book and believes every child can learn. Some examples of her works are:

A Dragon In a Wagon is an imaginary travel adventure with Laura and a happy dragon. Their journey introduces a cluster of transportation words to young readers. Laura and the happy dragon ride in a wagon, a car, a bus, a boat, a sled, a truck, a train and airplane, a parachute, a big balloon and a circus wagon. Children recognize and count the many unusual passengers who ride along to a surprise ending. Pages 30 and 31 contain a word bank of travel words. The book provides a good starting point for learning more about the many ways people travel from place to place.

A Color Clown Comes To Town introduces young readers to the wonderful world of color. Laura and her funny clown introduce children not only to many familiar colors, but also to new colors that they can make themselves. The clown helps children name colors by playing a color game. As children read the story, they join Laura in playing it too. At the end of the story, Laura uses all of the colors to make something very special. She invites the readers do the same. Pages 30 and 31 reinforce the cluster of color words to young readers. The story encourages children to keep experimenting with colors using paint, chalk, and crayons and other tools

The Biggest Snowball of All is an adventure story about Little Bear and the many different sizes of things she encounters on her way down the mountain side of snow with her friends, Rabbit and Raccoon. The three friends find all kinds of ways to turn a tiny snow ball into the biggest snowball of all. They build a great snowball house only to watch it melt away when the warm sun shines again. The book is fun to read when children are also playing in the snow and making snowballs themselves. The size words include words such as; tiny, small, big, bigger, and biggest, shortest ,short, long, narrow, wide, small ,smaller and smallest.

Here We Go 'Round the Year introduces the twelve months of the year with twelve little bears playing a game. Each bear carries a flag of one of the months, beginning with January and ending with December. As the bears march around the year, each bear dramatizes something special about each month. The bears play in the snow, ice skate, fly kites, make mud pies , plant flowers, have picnics, jump in the leaves, play ball, and go for sleigh rides, learning the names of the months in sequence as they play together.

Away Went The Farmer’s Hat is an tale about a farmer’s hat that blows away on a windy day. Many familiar farm animals wear the hat as it blows from one place to another finally landing in a tree. The tree hat makes nest for a bird and a squirrel before the farmer finds it .
Young children will have fun with an upside down hat pretending to be the different animals that wear the hat in the story. They will talk about other things that are blown by the wind and may create stories about kites, seeds, sailboats, and butterflies.

Rabbits’ Habits is a book about good habits. Children participate in the story as they chose the rabbit with a good habit in each little adventure. The three rabbits all play with toys on the floor, but only one rabbit knows where the ball belongs after the game. When the rabbits play with friends in the park, plant a garden, or get ready for school, children quickly pick the rabbit with the best habit. This tale ends with a picnic where all the rabbits have good habits. They eat lots of veggies and other healthy foods. Pages 30 and 31 have more helpful habits for rabbits and kids. The book serves as a good introduction to a unit on good healthy habits. Children can dictate or write about their best habits.


This author has a great web site:
http://www.janebelkmoncure.com/mcrhome.htm

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RAFT

(R)=Death (A)=The Living (F)=Poem (T)=Afterlife

Death

Standing in darkness

Shadows are real.

Staring down an endless void

Coldness is what I feel.

Shadows like dreams

In the still of night.

Trembling in fear,

horror and fright

A thick fog surrounds me

As evil terror grows near.

From a far off distance

the shadow becomes clear.

A crackling of thunder

and flashes of light

wet mist falls

covering my face

and most of the night.

Strong winds blow

Dreadful weather rains down.

The world I knew

is no where to be found.

I stand in this realm

in uncertainty and shame

Voices from beyond

keep calling my name.

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Writing is a PROCESS.....

1. Prewriting- brainstorm/maps
2. drafting- rough draft / outline
3. revising- additions/ deletions
4. editing- convention/ check for errors
5. publishing- finished work


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I Won The Lottery!

One day I went to Diamond Shamrock and bought a lottery ticket. To my surprise I had the winning lottery numbers. I laid out my plans to decide how to spend all of the eighty million dollars I had just won.

The first thing I had to do was to get away and take a vacation. I decided to go and visit Disneyland in California. We rode the roller coaster and watched the shows. While in California we spent three days having lots of fun. Our next destination was to visit New York. We went to see the Empire State Building and Ground Zero. We walked all over the city taking pictures and finally ended up in Rockefeller Center. New York was a beautiful city.

The next thing I had to do was spend the money. I paid off all of my bills. I went to Savannah Heights and purchased five acres of land. We contacted Tilson Homes and designed our dream house, which had five bedrooms and two and a half baths. The outside was all done in red brick and had a metal roof. The backyard had a beautiful spacious garden.

The last thing I had left to do was share the wealth. I purchased a brand new home for my mother and a new Hummer to match. My sister needed a trustworthy vehicle so I bought her a bright red Ford F-250 with Ranchhand bumpers. I bought my father in law twelve cows to add to his ranch. my family then took a fourteen day luxury cruise to relax.

The day I won the lottery I had lots of fun. I took much needed vacations. I had the opportunity to build my dream home and share the wealth with my family. Winning the lottery was lots of fun and brought joy to me and my family.

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Chapter 2

The chapter on culture was very interesting. We will have kids from all different cultures and backgrounds in our classrooms. The best way to try and understand the cultures of the children is to get to know your students. When my daughters started school, I helped them both do their all about me posters. the activity was wonderful. It paints a picture for the teacher of how many likeness and differences she has in her classroom. The teacher can better prepare to meet the needs of all of her students. One of the best ways I have seen a teacher meets the needs of her students is by having books available in the classroom which represent different cultures. The students can look at their cultures and also share with their classmates. Teacher's can also have culture day, where an individual from each of the students families comes and talks to the class about their family culture. They can bring in items or books with illustrate different cultures. The students could learn a lot about themselves and their classmates.

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The best way to get a child interested and involved in reading is to use pre/during/post strategies. When selecting a book a teacher can create a game or project. they can even bring in props related to the story. This will help get the child excited about the text they are about to read. During the presentation of the reading material the teacher could ask their students questions related to the reading and hold up the props as she reads, to give the child a visual representation, which will maintain the child's interest. After the book has been presented the teacher could ask her students questions. A good example would be, if this story continued what do you think would happen next? The children could then work together discussing the material they just read, reinforcing the material and making new connections. As teachers if we are enthusiastic and excited about reading, we can help students maintain the same positive attitudes about learning.

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Motivation

Motivation for me would be both intrinsic and extrinsic.

Being a first time student to A&M, accomplishment and success would me my inner drive. A fear of failure also motivates me to succeed.

The extrinsic would be holding a completed assignment with a perfect score, receiving the degree once your done with the required classes. Earning the degree would serve as the reward.

The strongest motivation is being able to see there is really a light at the end of your tunnel. It is an outside force you can see and work for.

Learning

I feel we all learn in different ways. I have known for a long time that I am a hands on learner. I have always loved being by myself and doing things on my own. When I was in school, I was diagnosed with learning disabilities. I went through many different types of tests so the school system could find out how I learn best. After that teachers would put a cardboard partition around my desk because they told me I was easily distracted. As time went on I really got use to doing everything alone. To this day I have never really been a big social butterfly. Learning and working in a happy, group like social environment takes a lot of getting use to.

I believe everybody uses all 9 the the multiple intelligences at some point. We just favor the ones we feel work the best.

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I found an interesting author Eileen Christelow, here is her website: http://www.christelow.com/news/

She writes cute childrens books. My girls love her stories.

Another author is Catherine Lukas, here is her website:
http://authors.simonandschuster.ca/Catherine-Lukas/1666701/books

My girls love reading the Arthur books. They are written by Marc Brown. His website is:
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/authors/results.pperl?authorid=3496

Reasons Not To Mess With Children
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible..

The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'.

The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah went to hell?'

The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'.

-------------------------------------------------- A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was..

The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.'

The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like.'

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute..'-----------------