The girls have been learning how to name fruits in Spanish. Here they are playing a partner game where they have to find the fruit their partner names.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Friday, November 10, 2017
From the Library
Pre-first started off the year in library with an old favorite Good as New by Barbara Douglass, a story in which the wise, resourceful and patient grandparent helps skeptical young Grady fix his teddy bear after a run-in with a young cousin. In fact, Grady thinks the bear ends up better than new. Next up was Leslie Muir's C.R. Mudgeon, the story of a hedgehog who is a sensible creature of habit and his new neighbor, Paprika, who spices things up. We then read Kevin Henkes' Penny series. The third installment, Penny and her Marble, sparked an interesting discussion about finding, keeping and giving.
Next we read a couple of books in which part of the story is told in one half of the book, and then the reader flips the book over to get the rest of the story. Pre-first girls called these flip books. Crescent Dragonwagon's And then it Rained, tells the story of how all the inhabitants of an apartment building adjust to very hot weather, at first enjoying it and then wishing for rain and cooler weather. "To find out what happens next", we read half way through the book, "turn the book over". There we find And then the Sun Came Out, in which the same neighbors enjoy and then grow tired of the rain and wish for the sun to return. At the end of this section, we are again instructed to turn the book over to find out what happens next...
We followed this with Aliki's Marianthe's Story One: Painted Words. Marianthe moves to a new country and a new school with new children and a different language. She tells her story and her feelings through painting. When we turn the book over we find Story Two: Spoken Memories, in which Mari has learned a lot about her new world and can tell her life stories to her classmates in words.
The girls are now checking books out (they love to swipe the bar codes themselves) and taking them home. They agree to read to their goldfish, siblings, grandparents and friends. We've talked about how to take care of library books, how to remember to bring them back to school after they've read the book a few times. Thank you for encouraging your daughters to read.
Next we read a couple of books in which part of the story is told in one half of the book, and then the reader flips the book over to get the rest of the story. Pre-first girls called these flip books. Crescent Dragonwagon's And then it Rained, tells the story of how all the inhabitants of an apartment building adjust to very hot weather, at first enjoying it and then wishing for rain and cooler weather. "To find out what happens next", we read half way through the book, "turn the book over". There we find And then the Sun Came Out, in which the same neighbors enjoy and then grow tired of the rain and wish for the sun to return. At the end of this section, we are again instructed to turn the book over to find out what happens next...
We followed this with Aliki's Marianthe's Story One: Painted Words. Marianthe moves to a new country and a new school with new children and a different language. She tells her story and her feelings through painting. When we turn the book over we find Story Two: Spoken Memories, in which Mari has learned a lot about her new world and can tell her life stories to her classmates in words.
The girls are now checking books out (they love to swipe the bar codes themselves) and taking them home. They agree to read to their goldfish, siblings, grandparents and friends. We've talked about how to take care of library books, how to remember to bring them back to school after they've read the book a few times. Thank you for encouraging your daughters to read.
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