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November is gone. We are now in December. I hope everyone had a great mini vacation. I'm sure everyone is looking forward to the end of this semester. It has been an experience I'm glad I've had. I was impressed today by the broken Fairy tales presentation. It was cute. It showed that each of the members put their share in. I also enjoyed the Giving Tree.Hang-man was a fun game as well. I know that my special ed kids who are in 7th and 8th grade enjoy word parts as long as it's incorporated into a game.I was looking around to find some authors. I went ahead and looked up Lemony Snicket. His real name is Daniel Handler. Here is the website. It looks like an interesting website.http://www.lemonysnicket.com/author.cfm Daniel Handler is the author who goes by the pseudoname Lemony Snicket.When I have time,I plan on exploring it as well.

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Today we got to do our genre presentation.. I really hope everyone enjoyed it and I hope that everyone was able to connect with it on some level.I'm so glad that the days of just doing papers is history.I hope that my time at Texas A & M will be enriched with innovative and out of the box thinking professors. It really does make our learning more fun and it causes us to remember what we learn.I think it's really neat how each person in the different group gets the chance to contribute their vision and how everything can work together to support one central theme. I really did enjoy working with my partners throughout the semester. Come to find out everybody in our group is very talented at drawing.Myself on the other hand, well I couldn't draw flies LOL. So I appreciate everyone being gracious and allowing me to share my passion for singing.I am going to post a few books on this blog just for some suggested reading. I will go ahead and try to include our anthology, if there are no copyrights involved if not I will give Katherine Patterson's website.I was surprised when I saw the number of books this woman has written.I am going to add her website so that anyone who would like to explore some of her works can
Here is one of the websites that shows a video and her books.http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/paterson I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. God Bless You. Good Night.

Books by Elise Broach

This week is Thanksgiving week and the kids are at home and already bored. I need to go to the library and pick up some books for them. I was looking through some children's authors and came upon Elise Broach She has one cute looking book called when Dinosaurs came with everything. I am going to try to put the picture of the book on the blog.Ok Maybe that isn't such agood idea. I will do this instead, She also has a book called when Dinosaurs lived in my back yard. I will copy and paste the web address for all who are interested. I think I might go get these two for my 5 year old.http://www.multcolib.org/summer/kids/covers/whendinos.jpg
Happy Thanksgiving!

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One of my favorite authors when I was little was Judy Blume. I loved her fudge books. He reminded me of all the things I shouldn't do if I didn't want to get a spanking. I was almost an only child,the way I lived and it was an adventure to think about being in Fudge's shoes and to try to imagine what it was like to have siblings living with me. All of my siblings lived elsewhere. I was the product of a second marriage. Here are some of her books.Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

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Today we saw the first genre presentation. The story was a chinese folktale. I was impressed with the movie maker feature that was used and the collaboration that was unmistakably obvious. I think the presentation goes to show how far you can go when everyone is on the same page and everyone works together toward one goal. I could also see that everyone involved had fun in creating the finished product.The preceding are a few other folktales I found. The first one is from INdonesia. We all know the importance of using multicultural literature in our classrooms. I think the choice for the first genre presentation was very good. I also liked the group participation option. Great job ladies very creative!Unfortunately none of my pictures came on I guess I'll just give the website this time.http://digitalart.org/images/artwork/0059000-59276/childrens-illustrations/indonesian-folktales-2.jpg

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I can't believe this semester is almost history. It is amazing how fast time flies! I will read some of chapter 11 but I guess we've already covered most tof that material. I guess today is agood day to expose some more childrens authors and the books that make them famous.These are some books by Janice Herrington. They are about change it seems. That would be good to have in the classroom for children who are forced to move around alot and don't feel thay have a firm foundation.

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I was looking through Blackboard and I accidentally came upon the posting for this week's blog. The information about the little girl Sarah who was studied is so interesting. I found myself reexamining how I deal with reading to my 5 year old daughter. I also was very intrigued by the way she(my daughter)always seems to talk to herself. After this morning's discussion about self talk I totally am not going to get after her to be quiet. It is so interesting the way every day is a new day for learning. I want to make sure that I make learning fun and a time to look forward to for all of my kids. I will also try to implement that in the classroom through read alouds and discussions. I really did come away informed. I found myself giving more effort to make Felicity,my daughter be more involved with the reading. I was amazed by the little girl Sara,who essentially became her younger sibling's teacher and knew exactly what to look for in the assessment she was unwittingly conducting. What a world of discovery I am going to make available for my kids. There are so many books like The Hungry Caterpillar. Here are a few other titles to use for read alouds,especially for early readers!Alot of these books are advanced for the older students as well.