There are many activities that you can do with the book Double Trouble because the text is so basic you can change the story through the illustrations in numerous ways.
One thing you can do is have the children totally change the characters of the story. The text of the story never says that the characters are raccoons; you only know this by looking at the pictures. So the students can change the characters to anything they want to, humans, pigs, mice, cows, dogs, cats, lions, bears, the possibilities are endless.
They can also change the events by changing the pictures. The text is not very detailed, so the children can change the story by changing the pictures. For example, there is one page where the text says: Tim and Jim act alike. The illustration shows the two raccoons swinging on swings hanging off of a tree. They could change the illustration by making the two characters play basketball or be ice skating.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Double Trouble
Double Trouble by Rose Greydanus and illustrated by Roland Rodegast is one of my favorite picture books! It is about two racoons that look a like, sound a like, and act alike.
I like this book for many reasons. One is because the animals are racoons, and they are so adorable! The story line isn't much but it is funny. All of these good things happen and you dont know if it is Tim or if it is Jim who did them. But in the pictures one racoon is taking the credit for it and smiling while the other is frowning. However, bad things start happening. Like eating all the cookies and making a mess. Now you see the two boys pointing at each other, blaming the other one!
This reminds me so much of my younger brother and I. We aren't twins but we act like this. When one of us does something good we both try to take credit for it. But when something bad happens our fingers sure are pointing!
After our discussion of pictures and how they help create the story, I can really see how it works in this book. You can see things in the pictures that you don't get from just reading the text. The illustrations really add to the story.
I like this book for many reasons. One is because the animals are racoons, and they are so adorable! The story line isn't much but it is funny. All of these good things happen and you dont know if it is Tim or if it is Jim who did them. But in the pictures one racoon is taking the credit for it and smiling while the other is frowning. However, bad things start happening. Like eating all the cookies and making a mess. Now you see the two boys pointing at each other, blaming the other one!
This reminds me so much of my younger brother and I. We aren't twins but we act like this. When one of us does something good we both try to take credit for it. But when something bad happens our fingers sure are pointing!
After our discussion of pictures and how they help create the story, I can really see how it works in this book. You can see things in the pictures that you don't get from just reading the text. The illustrations really add to the story.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
poems
In my RDNG 302 class we had to write poetry. The type I had to write was Limericks. Here are some that I wrote:
There once was a cow named Tim
Who liked to play with Kim.
They ran about
And gave a shout
She fell in love with him.
There once was a frog named Dan
Who didn’t have a fan.
He got so hot
His skin started to spot
And he got a tan.
There once was a dog named Gail
Who liked to wag her tail
She played ball
And had a great fall
She liked to fetch the mail.
There once was a boy named Tum
Who liked to chew gum.
He was a sight
Because he wasn’t very bright
Some people called him a bum.
There once was a bride
Who had a cool ride.
She planned the wedding
With out even sweating
And then she went to hide.
There once was a cow named Tim
Who liked to play with Kim.
They ran about
And gave a shout
She fell in love with him.
There once was a frog named Dan
Who didn’t have a fan.
He got so hot
His skin started to spot
And he got a tan.
There once was a dog named Gail
Who liked to wag her tail
She played ball
And had a great fall
She liked to fetch the mail.
There once was a boy named Tum
Who liked to chew gum.
He was a sight
Because he wasn’t very bright
Some people called him a bum.
There once was a bride
Who had a cool ride.
She planned the wedding
With out even sweating
And then she went to hide.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
See Spot Run!!!!
After class on Friday I was reminded of how I learned to read in kindergarten. We had this set of books, and the one I remember the most is a green one. They were old, old, old! They had black electrical duct tape on the spine because they were falling apart, you could tell how used they were because the pages were tented yellow and the cover of the book was ripping at the edges. See, I’m from a small country town called Moulton, population is about 994 (I think). We are stuck in the old western times! Not really, but we really are a small country town and our school doesn’t really change much. Let me show you how.
I came home this weekend and I was telling my mom about my English professor asking if any one learned how to read from the Dick and Jane Books. My mom told me, “I learned how to read from those books. Actually the same copies you learned off of in school.” I was like WHAT? That is so horrible-my school didn’t even buy new books? Then my mom continued to tell me, “You know what they did?” I thought, no telling with Moulton. She said, “They found a company that restores books and they sent off all the copies and had them redone.” I was like WHAT? Really, you’re not joking? And she wasn’t! They are still reading those same books that I learned how to read from, that my mother learned how to read from!!!
See Spot. See Spot Run!!!
I came home this weekend and I was telling my mom about my English professor asking if any one learned how to read from the Dick and Jane Books. My mom told me, “I learned how to read from those books. Actually the same copies you learned off of in school.” I was like WHAT? That is so horrible-my school didn’t even buy new books? Then my mom continued to tell me, “You know what they did?” I thought, no telling with Moulton. She said, “They found a company that restores books and they sent off all the copies and had them redone.” I was like WHAT? Really, you’re not joking? And she wasn’t! They are still reading those same books that I learned how to read from, that my mother learned how to read from!!!
See Spot. See Spot Run!!!
Friday, April 18, 2008
activities for Fairy Tales Keepsake Collection
There are many activities that you can do with the book Fairy Tales Keepsake Collection.
You are sitting in your classroom and you have five minutes before the bell rings, the students are finished with their work- What am I going to do for the rest of the class? Pull out this book, select a student to come up, have them close their eyes and open the book. Whatever page they open the book to, that will be the story you read!
Another thing you can do is read one of the stories and have the students re write it in their own words, draw their own illustrations for the story or their own version of the story, or even rewrite the story changing the characters names and the sex of the characters or the setting of the story. The possibilities are endless!
You can also use this book when teaching lessons over author’s style or parts of a story. One specific example is the style called allusion. In the novel Ella Enchanted, the author alludes to the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. To teach allusion, you can have the students read Ella Enchanted then read the story Cinderella in this book. They can go back and forth between the stories and pick out the parts of Ella Enchanted that allude to Cinderella. For example, going to the balls!
You are sitting in your classroom and you have five minutes before the bell rings, the students are finished with their work- What am I going to do for the rest of the class? Pull out this book, select a student to come up, have them close their eyes and open the book. Whatever page they open the book to, that will be the story you read!
Another thing you can do is read one of the stories and have the students re write it in their own words, draw their own illustrations for the story or their own version of the story, or even rewrite the story changing the characters names and the sex of the characters or the setting of the story. The possibilities are endless!
You can also use this book when teaching lessons over author’s style or parts of a story. One specific example is the style called allusion. In the novel Ella Enchanted, the author alludes to the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. To teach allusion, you can have the students read Ella Enchanted then read the story Cinderella in this book. They can go back and forth between the stories and pick out the parts of Ella Enchanted that allude to Cinderella. For example, going to the balls!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Fairy Tales Keepsake Collection
Fairy Tales Keepsake Collection from Publications International, ltd. is an amazing book. As the title says, it is a collection of fairy tales. The tales included in this specific book include: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel, Thumbelina, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, The Frog Prince, and Sleeping Beauty. Obviously I love this book because I love fairy tales, one day I’ll be Cinderella and get my prince (I hope!). But I think this is a very useful book to have.
One, when I have a family one day I wont have to have 11 different books, I can have one with all 11 stories in it! A big space saver! Also, the pictures are amazing and the font is big which makes it easy for smaller children.
This will be a great tool to use in my future classroom one day. Not every child grows up in a house where the parents read to them and tell them the fairy tales that I have grown up with. Therefore, I will have to take careful care when referring back to the fairy tales in my classroom. With this book, I will have easy access to eleven fairy tales. So, before I make reference to a fairy tale, I can pull out this book and read that specific fairy tale to the class. This way, the entire class has heard and experienced the story. This is will put all of the students on the same playing level.
I really like this book and plan to have it in my classroom one day!
One, when I have a family one day I wont have to have 11 different books, I can have one with all 11 stories in it! A big space saver! Also, the pictures are amazing and the font is big which makes it easy for smaller children.
This will be a great tool to use in my future classroom one day. Not every child grows up in a house where the parents read to them and tell them the fairy tales that I have grown up with. Therefore, I will have to take careful care when referring back to the fairy tales in my classroom. With this book, I will have easy access to eleven fairy tales. So, before I make reference to a fairy tale, I can pull out this book and read that specific fairy tale to the class. This way, the entire class has heard and experienced the story. This is will put all of the students on the same playing level.
I really like this book and plan to have it in my classroom one day!
Friday, April 11, 2008
Tim Tingle
I had the chance to see Tim Tingle speak at the Library on April 8. He is a Choctaw Indian and he tells stories around the world. He was amazing! He started off with the Choctaw Indian version of Amazing Grace, playing the beat on one of his awesome drums. Words cannot explain how wonderful of a storyteller he was. His stories were awesome and very heart touching. The part of his story that really caught my attention was the story about his trip to Alaska.
He went to Alaska to visit a school and while he was walking through the hallways, the principal told him, “You are about to see something you have never witnessed before.” While he was telling us this story I was thinking to myself, what in the world goes on at this school. Then Tim Tingle proceeded by telling us that at five minutes till ten, the secretary unplugged the phone and shut down her computer, the teachers came out of their rooms and got a cup of coffee, and the students moved to where they wanted to in the building. Each person had a book, every teacher, coach, secretary, administrator, and student had a book to read for fun. They could not read any book that had to do with their school subjects; it was purely reading for pleasure.
The school called it “The Sound of Reading.” I think this is amazing. They had an hour a day to read for pleasure! This is something that I think is very important. Reading opens so many doors; however, some people don’t explore those doors because they never have the chance to read for pleasure. I think this is a great way to get students back into reading and I really want to use this in my classroom one day.
He went to Alaska to visit a school and while he was walking through the hallways, the principal told him, “You are about to see something you have never witnessed before.” While he was telling us this story I was thinking to myself, what in the world goes on at this school. Then Tim Tingle proceeded by telling us that at five minutes till ten, the secretary unplugged the phone and shut down her computer, the teachers came out of their rooms and got a cup of coffee, and the students moved to where they wanted to in the building. Each person had a book, every teacher, coach, secretary, administrator, and student had a book to read for fun. They could not read any book that had to do with their school subjects; it was purely reading for pleasure.
The school called it “The Sound of Reading.” I think this is amazing. They had an hour a day to read for pleasure! This is something that I think is very important. Reading opens so many doors; however, some people don’t explore those doors because they never have the chance to read for pleasure. I think this is a great way to get students back into reading and I really want to use this in my classroom one day.
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