This lesson will deal with color recognition, fine motor coordination, and recognizing emotions.
First I will read the book My many colored days, then we will make masks for this lesson. I will have different colored paper plates and tongue depressors for them to hold the plates up to their face. Then I would ask each child to name the color of the plate they chose to work with. I would help them cut eye holes in the plate if they needed help. Then I would have different colored feathers, crayons and shapes the can glue onto the plate. I would go around asking the children what different colors they have put on their masks. I would also ask them what emotion the mask portrayed. Is it a happy, sad or angry mask? I will make a angry mask of my own and show them how I can put on my angry mask, and then take it off and go back to being myself. I would talk to them about how it is ok to feel sad, mad, excited or tired. These emotions will not last forever and eventually we will go back to feeling like ourselves again.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
"My Many Colored Days"
Suess, Dr. My Many Colored Days. Illus. Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher. New York, NY: Random House Inc., 1996.
This book was good. It was about a kids different days and different colors he feels on those days. I liked how he compared himself to different animals. He a slow brown bear, and a yellow busy bee. I think the combination of the animals with the colored days helps children understand the emotion better. I love the paintings in this book. My two favorite one were the loud, mad black days, and the pink happy days. I like that it teaches kids that it is ok to feel different ways. It is ok to be mad or sad. At the end of the book it has a mixed up day where the kid does not know how he is feeling, and that is ok too. Even though the child feels all these emotions at the end of the book he goes back to feeling like himself.
This book was good. It was about a kids different days and different colors he feels on those days. I liked how he compared himself to different animals. He a slow brown bear, and a yellow busy bee. I think the combination of the animals with the colored days helps children understand the emotion better. I love the paintings in this book. My two favorite one were the loud, mad black days, and the pink happy days. I like that it teaches kids that it is ok to feel different ways. It is ok to be mad or sad. At the end of the book it has a mixed up day where the kid does not know how he is feeling, and that is ok too. Even though the child feels all these emotions at the end of the book he goes back to feeling like himself.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Chidren's Literature, Breifly ch.10
Tunnell, Michael O. and James S. Jacobs. Children's Literature, Briefly. 4e. Upper Sadle River NJ: Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall, 2008.
I liked this chapter, it was short. Just kidding. Well sort of just kidding. I never thought of fantasy or science fiction as being hard to write. The book talked about how the authors had to come up with a new set of laws and conform to them. It brought to mind the sci-fi conventions that take place. It reminded me of "Trekkies"(is that how you spell it?). I have heard that people learn a new language based on the shows or books. It's crazy. How long would it take for a person to think up these things. The creativity involved is amazing. I liked how the book pointed out that even though a book is fantasy, to be good it has to have real truths about human nature and life in general.
I liked this chapter, it was short. Just kidding. Well sort of just kidding. I never thought of fantasy or science fiction as being hard to write. The book talked about how the authors had to come up with a new set of laws and conform to them. It brought to mind the sci-fi conventions that take place. It reminded me of "Trekkies"(is that how you spell it?). I have heard that people learn a new language based on the shows or books. It's crazy. How long would it take for a person to think up these things. The creativity involved is amazing. I liked how the book pointed out that even though a book is fantasy, to be good it has to have real truths about human nature and life in general.
Children's Literature, Breifly ch.18
Tunnell, Michael O. and James S. Jacobs. Children's Literature, Briefly. 4e. Upper Sadle River NJ: Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall, 2008.
I think using trade books instead of text books in the classroom is a great idea. If you can get the information across using a trade book rather than a text book then I think you should do it. Personally I would much rather read a trade book than a boring flat text book. You could assign a trade book to a class and through their reading they could be absorbing all sorts of information without even knowing it. There are times when textbooks are necessary, especially in science and math classes that deal with formulas. However, I think children are more likely to read the trade books than text books.
I think using trade books instead of text books in the classroom is a great idea. If you can get the information across using a trade book rather than a text book then I think you should do it. Personally I would much rather read a trade book than a boring flat text book. You could assign a trade book to a class and through their reading they could be absorbing all sorts of information without even knowing it. There are times when textbooks are necessary, especially in science and math classes that deal with formulas. However, I think children are more likely to read the trade books than text books.
craft lesson #3
Discussion:
In the book "Minn and Jake " Jake compares his classmates to different animals. One boy was tiger, one was a snake, another was a housefly. Minn was a giant squid. This lesson will be an exercise in writing skills and will be aimed at fourth grade students. I would allow the students to be creative with this assignment.
Activity:
Write about what kind of animal you might be in a different life. Explain why you would be the type of animal you have chosen. It can be in style of writing you choose. You can choose any animal for any reason. You may choose to focus on the appearance of an animal, the behaviors of the animal, or even the animals environment.
In the book "Minn and Jake " Jake compares his classmates to different animals. One boy was tiger, one was a snake, another was a housefly. Minn was a giant squid. This lesson will be an exercise in writing skills and will be aimed at fourth grade students. I would allow the students to be creative with this assignment.
Activity:
Write about what kind of animal you might be in a different life. Explain why you would be the type of animal you have chosen. It can be in style of writing you choose. You can choose any animal for any reason. You may choose to focus on the appearance of an animal, the behaviors of the animal, or even the animals environment.
Minn and Jake
Wong, Janet S. Minn and Jake. Illus. Genevieve Cote. New York, NY: Frances Foster Books, 2003.
I really liked this book. I thought Janet Wong did an excellent job of capturing the elementary feeling. The characters dealt with problems that all elementary kids deal with. Minn felt akward and self-conscious about her height. I think all girls off this age feel that there is somthing about there bodies that is akward or they would like to change. Also Minn was wanting to find a freind and learning what it is to be a friend. Friendship at this age is really important and children crave for a sense of belonging. I also liked the little things that the the different characters did that took me back to how I felt at this age. I liked when Minn talked about a certain girl that began with the letter S and ended in the letter a. I said things like that when I was in elementary school.
I really liked this book. I thought Janet Wong did an excellent job of capturing the elementary feeling. The characters dealt with problems that all elementary kids deal with. Minn felt akward and self-conscious about her height. I think all girls off this age feel that there is somthing about there bodies that is akward or they would like to change. Also Minn was wanting to find a freind and learning what it is to be a friend. Friendship at this age is really important and children crave for a sense of belonging. I also liked the little things that the the different characters did that took me back to how I felt at this age. I liked when Minn talked about a certain girl that began with the letter S and ended in the letter a. I said things like that when I was in elementary school.
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