| Booktalk
#1
What
is your favorite holiday? What are some of the fun things you like
to do with your family? Do you have special customs you do at certain
holidays? Read these simple children's poems that follow an entire
calendar year. The illustrations are wonderful in showing all of
the holidays this family enjoys. See if you can pick out your favorite
holiday when you read "A Child's Calendar" by John Updike. (Karen Womack,
graduate student, <kwomack7@yahoo.com>
)
Booktalk #2
Bring
a calendar which has illustrations (flowers, nature or bucolic scenes).
I prefer Norman Rockwell. First, I would show the pictures and ask
them what month it occurs in. I would go through the months with
the children and ask them where holidays and seasons occur and get feedback
on what they do in those months that make it fun. Finally, I would introduce
the book and tell them it is about the months in the year and what people
do during those months. ("Naomi Bates" <mira93@yahoo.com>) |
