New Book News
April/May/June 2001
Excerpt
Book
Spring Song by Barbara Seuling.
Illustrated by Greg Newbold.
Harcourt, 2001 (gr. K-4)
When spring arrives, animals wake up, explore, play, and respond to the warmth of the new season.
Idea
Students can write about and illustrate the unique activities they do when it is spring. Put their spring activities into a booklet entitled "Spring Songs." Encourage them to identify those activities that are especially associated with the changes in the new season.
Idea
Readers can select a song that best represents their feelings about the spring season. Encourage them to consult a variety of sources and people for suggestions of an appropriate tune. Play the various selections for readers to get an understanding of the music that spring inspires.
Idea
Ask the students to write what they think of when they think of a spring day. They just write the words that remind them of springtime in no particular order. On a different piece of paper, they then paint a picture that reminds them of a spring day.
Other students look at each painting and the list of words that describe spring time. They select the words that each painting best represents, and write them beneath the picture. The result is an illustrated original song of spring.
Strategies for the following books are also included in the April/May/June issue
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- Animal Tails
- by Ken Kawata (gr. K-3)
- Dear Mother, Dear Daughter
- by Jane Yolen & Heidi E.Y. Stemple. (gr. 3-6)
- Emma Jo's Song
- by Faye Gibbons. (gr. K-4)
- Freedom Summer
- by Deborah Wiles. (gr. 2-5)
- Good Mousekeeping
- by J. Patrick Lewis. (gr. 1-5)
- Have You Been to the Beach Lately?
- by Ralph Fletcher. (gr. 3-7)
- It's Simple, Said Simon
- by Mary Ann Hoberman. (gr. K-4)
- Just Like You
- by Jan Fearnley. (gr. K-3)
- Leon the Chameleon
- by Melanie Watt. (gr. K-3)
- Little Panda
- by Joanne Ryder. (gr. K-6)
- My Mother Is Mine
- by Marion Dane Bauer. (gr. K-3)
- Oh, Yuck!
- by Joy Masoff. (gr. 2-8)
- Pieces
- by Anna Grossnickle Hines. (gr. 2-6)
- A Pocketful of Poems
- by Nikki Grimes. (gr. 2-8)
- A Poke in the I
- selected by Paul B. Janeczko. (gr. 2-8)
- Splish, Splash, Spring
- by Jan Carr. (gr. K-3)
- Summer: An Alphabet Acrostic
- by Steven Schnur. (gr. 1-6)
- Ted
- by Tony DiTerlizzi. (gr. K-3)
- The Tiger Rising
- by Kate DiCamillo. (gr. 5-8)
- Toasting Marshmallows
- by Kristine O'Connell George. (gr. 1-5)
- Touching Spirit Bear
- by Ben Mikaelsen. (gr. 5-8)
- Tough Beginnings
- by Marilyn Singer. (gr. 1-4)
- What Moms Can't Do
- by Douglas Wood. (gr. K-3)
- Who Is in the Garden?
- by Vera Rosenberry. (gr. K-3)
- Wildflowers Around the Year
- by Hope Ryden. (gr. 4-8)
- The Wind's Garden
- by Bethany Roberts. (gr. K-3)
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