Dog In Charge

 

 

I read dog in charge by K.L. Going.  This book was about a dog who's family went to the store.  When they left for the store they told the dog that he would be in charge of the cats while they were gone.  During this time the dog was trying to keep that cats in one spot so that he could watch over them more closely, but when that dog turned around that cats were gone!  He had to chase the cats all over the house.  The cats were jumping on things and knocking things over all over the house.  At this point the dog started to get scared that his family wont call him a "good dog, the very best dog".  At the end the dog falls asleep because he was so tired from chasing around the cats the whole time, when the cats find him asleep they clean up the whole house before the family got home.  When the family gets home they are so happy that the dog kept everything in order and gave him many treats.

I would probably use this book to show children that it is important to work together as a team.  I would explain to the class that there are times that you need to work by your self, but there will also be many times where you will have to work in a group or in a team.  I think that it is important that children learn this at a young age so that they will be comfortable doing it later in life!

Liitle Lizards New Baby

I read Little Lizards New baby by Melinda Melton Crow.  this book is about a lizard family that is about to have a baby.  Gray the "big brother" lizard tells through out the book what he is going to teach the new baby.  The mom and dad lizard keep saying good to the things that he wants to teach the baby.

Gray wants a little brother lizard, but when the mom and dad lizard walks in they tell him that the new baby is a sister lizard.  this book is written for children that are just first learning how to read.  it has simple words for the children to understand.  what I did not like about it was that the book just ended. there was nothing after the baby came home so that students could understand some of the things that happen with a new baby, but other than that it was a pretty good book.  I probably would not use this as an class read; I think I would use it as an independent  read.  I know that sometimes it is hard when a new baby comes in the house.  so I think that this book will show that it will be fun when the baby comes. 

Octopus Soup

The book that I read was Octups Soup by Mercer Mayer.  This book was about an octopus that was moving out of his parents house. On his way of moving out be got caught by fisherman.  They wanted to make soup out of the octopus.  Through out the book you see the octopus trying to get away.  This book has no words so it gives the children a chance to tell their own story.  I like that children can do this with this book because we as teacher want them to get use to seeing all the words that we are trying to teach them, but sometimes it is nice to see what they think the pictures are saying. You can get 30 different stories out of one book.  I would love to have this in my personal library because I think it would be a nice book for the children to relax with or write their own story to.  Then they could tell their story to the class.  It would be nice to see all of these different stories!  Then I thought that a cute fun activity would be making their own octopus.  So I posted a video above to show you how you would do that!

Hugs From Pearl

 

 



 

I read hugs from Pearl by Paul Schmid.  This was a story of a porcupine who loved hugs but he needles were to sharp that she would cut/scratch people that she would hug.  Even though her friends were very nice about the scratches from pearl she still felt very bad for hurting them. She did not want to hurt any one because she wanted a hug, so at one point she stopped asking and giving hugs.  At the end she finds a away for give everyone hugs with out hurting them.  At that point every one was happy. 

    

I really enjoyed this book because it was a nice read and it is a book that could be read at the end of lunch or even at the end of the day.  Another thing that I was thinking about while I was reading this book was that I could use it as a lessen if there was bullying going on in the classroom.  This book teaches us that no matter what people have or look like that we should all be nice to each other.  It is important for children to be taught at a young age about respecting one another.  I also rented this book at the library and this is one that I also want to by for my personal library. 

  

SIT-IN

I read SIT-IN by Andrea Davis Pinkney.  This book is about how these African American young adults (4) of them went to an "All White" diner. All they wanted was a coffee and a doughnut.  they sat there without saying one word.  they got the cops called on them at first, but the cop said that they were not doing anything wrong, all they were doing was sitting.  So the diner owner closed down for the day.  the word got around about this sit in, then more and more people started sitting in as well.  I thought that this was a great civil rights book.  I would read this to a class to start a lesson about the civil rights.  I think that this connects to all of us because we take our rights for granted.  People worked hard to get us where we are today! I think that this book is great for all ages and I would recommend this book to teachers who need a great book for civil rights!