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Welcome to the Junior Great Books Read-Aloud Program at PES!
Your child is bringing home his or her Read-Aloud book tonight. Each week, we’ll send the book home so that you can have a second read-aloud with your child of the story that we’re doing. You’ll find these readings as much fun as your child, since these are rich examples of world literature that haven’t been watered-down.
The attached snack bag includes two candy treats inside the plastic eggs which may be eaten with your permission. Your child can tell you how these relate to our story. Ask your child to explain the Art Notes he or she made in the book today. Please pick a time later in the week to read-aloud together. We will need the books back at school for our next meeting, Tuesday, 11 March, so please make sure that your child brings the book back to school before then.
Here is your part as an At Home Partner:
ü read the selection aloud with your child;
ü ask G.B.’s questions (printed in the boxes on pages 10, 15, and 17 of today’s story), marking the answer as instructed;
ü help your child find his or her Favorite Words (intriguing, unusual, clever, but not necessarily new); underline them and add them to the list at the back of the book;
ü write down your child’s own question about the selection on the page labeled “My Question”;
Your child can show you which story we’re doing this week. The brief “Note to the At-Home Reader” in the front of the book has some additional tips for partners. Please note that the rest of the writing assignments and all of the drawing activities will be completed in class.
The main thing to keep in mind as you read and talk with your child is to enjoy yourselves! This is an opportunity for your child to talk and ask questions about the selection in an intimate setting. Remember that these are personal responses; there is no single right answer, and this is just the beginning of your child’s work with the selection. Answers shouldn’t be considered final. One way to help your child fully express his or her ideas is to follow up a statement by asking, “Why do you think this?” or, “Can you tell me more?”
Your curiosity about what your child is thinking and example you set as a good listener will communicate a very important message about the value of discussing ideas and the importance of reading for meaning. The role you fill in the Read-Aloud program is a vital one.
To help your child expand on the themes and literatures of each week’s selection, I will also send home a “Read More About It” list of related books in the PES library which they may wish to borrow. There are also keywords that will help them find additional materials at the public library. The librarian can help find particular items.
Thanks again for agreeing to be an At-Home JBG Partner. Please let me know if you have any questions or problems.
Barbara J. Hampton-Fielding
Tel. No.: 264-4772; e-mail: redline3@earthlink.net
April 2003
Greetings to our Junior Great Books At-Home Partners!
Thank you for being a part of weekly reading enrichment program. Your child benefits enormously from this opportunity to share world-class literature with you, to think carefully about the author’s meaning, and to discuss the story with you. I hope that you’re enjoying these stories, too.
This week we are half-way through the “Sun” series in the Junior Great Books program. Because of Spring Vacation and some special events at school, we will not have meetings every Tuesday. When we must skip a week, it will be easier for your child to discuss the story at the next meeting if your at home reading is close in time to the next meeting. I have left the “My Question” page in the books because I think you and your child will enjoy going back to the story in a few months and seeing how you view the story.
Over Spring Vacation, your child may want to add the illustrations we’ve already done for the stories so far. If you’re visiting the library, the “Read More About It” lists I’ve sent home can help your child find books that relate to the stories we’re reading. Ask the children’s librarian for help in finding items on the list or use the keywords listed to search for other materials. Some are related fiction works; some are non-fiction that tie into the stories, including science books. Some of the images from the stories will connect with upcoming science units that the first grade will be working on, particularly weather and rocks and minerals.
Give your child a real-life chance to use the library for research: look for the books on birthdays to plan your next birthday party or maybe an end-of-school party. Try searching the library’s online catalog. The librarian can show your child how to use the special children’s search using pictures to represent different subject (no reading required).
I’d love to hear from parents or kids in our group. Give me a call or an e-mail with any questions or suggestions.
Barbara J. Hampton
Junior Great Books Leader
Tel. No. 264-4772
e-mail: redline3@earthlink.net
King of the Cats and Other Tales [BIB]
Sashes Red and Blue [BIB]
The Talking Cat and Other Stories of French Canada [SPL J398.3 CAR]
Beauty and the Beast - Deborah Apy (based on the story by Madame LePrince de Beaumont; youngest of three daughters is bravest and most generous, rescuing father from the Beast who was actually prince under spell of wicked fairy) [PES 398.2 APY]
The Boy, the Baker, the Miller, and More – Harold Berson (adapted from “Un Morceau de Pain”; a boy’s request for a piece of bread turns into an endless list of favors requested by others) [PES 398.2 B]
Stone Soup: An Old Tale – Marcia Brown [PES 398.2 B]
Puss in Boots – Marcia Brown [PES 398.24 P]
The Twelve Dancing Princesses – Andrew Lang [PES 398.2 L]
The Twelve Dancing Princesses – Marianna Mayer (when king’s daughters, under an evil spell, wear out their dancing slippers every night, it takes a peasant boy to discover the secret of the spell) [PES 398 M]
Puss in Boots – Charles Perrault (youngest son inherits a clever cat who helps him achieve fame and fortune) [PES 398.24 P]
Cinderella – Charles Perrault [PES 398.2 P]
The Sleeping Beauty – Charles Perrault (trans. of “La Belle au Bois Dormant”; wicked fairy casts spell that dooms princess to sleep for 100 years) [PES 398.2 P]
The Devil’s Bridge: A Legend Retold – Charles Scribner, Jr. (a peasant outwits the devil when he strikes a bargain with a French town to build a bridge in exchange for a human soul) [PES 398.2 S]
Old-fashioned Farm Life [keywords: farm life history]
Life in Northern France [keywords: France social life and customs]
Take a Trip to France – Henry Pluckrose [PES 944 R]
France: Where We Live – Donna Bailey [PES 944 BAI]
France: On the Map – Daphne Butler [PES 944 BUT]
Types of Eggs and How They Hatch [keywords: eggs; chick embryo]
The Egg – Shelly Gill [PES 591.4 GIL]
Bird (DK Picturpedia) – Alan Harris [PES 598 BIR]
Chicken and Egg (Stopwatch Books) – Christine Back [PES 598 BAC]
Bird (DK Eyewitness Books) – David Burnie [PES 598 B]
The Life Cycle of a Bird – Bobbie Kalman & Kathryn Smithyman [PES 598 KAL]
From Egg to Bird – Marlene Reidel [PES 598.2 REI]
A Chick Hatches – Joanna Cole [PES 598.2 C]
How Butter is Made [keywords: chemistry experiments; oils and fats]
Gobbs of Goo – Vicki Cobb [PES 547 C]
Science Experiments You Can Eat – Vicki Cobb [PES 502.8 C]
50 Science Experiments I Can Do – Susannah Brin [PES 507 BRI]
The Legend of the Orange Princess - Mehlli Gobhai [SPL J 398.2 GOB]
Folktales of India – Lee Wyndham [SPL J 398.2 WYN]
Once a Mouse: A Fable Cut in Wood – Marcia Brown (retold from the Hitopadesa; a tiger forgets all the help he received from a magician) [PES 398.24 BRO; SPL PICTURE BOOKS H]
Indian Fairy Tales (audiocassette) [SPL J CASSETTE INDIAN FAIRY TALES]
Blue Jackal – Marcia Brown (adapted from the Panchtantra, an early collection of Indian folktales; jackal accidentally dyed inidigo tries to play king to forest animals) [PES 398.24 BRO]
One Grain of Rice – Demi (a reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl) [PES 398.2 DEM]
Rum Pum Pum: A Folktale from India – Maggie Duff (Aided by others who have suffered a the hands of the king, a blackbird seek revenge on the monarch who has stolen his wife) [PES 398.2 DUF]
The King’s Choice: A Folktale from India – K. Shivkumar [PES 398.24 SHI]
Seven Blind Mice – Ed Young (blind men discovering different parts of elephant argue about its appearance) [PES 398.24 YOU]
India: One Nation, Many Traditions – Megan Cifarelli [SPL J 954 CIF]
India (Country Topics for Crafts series) – Anita Ganeri and Rachel Wright [SPL J 954 GAN]
India: The Land – Bobbie Kalman [SPL J 954 KAL]
India: The Culture – Bobbie Kalman [SPL J 954 KAL]
India: The People – Bobbie Kalman [SPL J 954 KAL]
India in Pictures (Visual Geography series) [PES 954 IND]
The Man-eating Tigers of Sundarbans – Sy Montgomery [SPL J 599.75 MON]
India (World Nature Encyclopedia series) – Renato Massa [SPL J 574.5 MAS]
Cat (DK Eyewitness Books) – Juliet Clutton-Brock [PES 599.74 CLU]
Mice – Kevin Holmes [SPL J 599.323 HOL]
The Mouse – Angela Royston [SPL J 599.3233 ROY]
Mice – Susan Horner and Celia B. Lottridge [SPL J 599.323 HOR]
Imagination: Poetry
A Child’s Garden of Verses. [PES 398 FUJ; 821 STE]
Fabulous paper air planes – E. Richard Churchhill [PES 745.592 CHU; SPL J 745.592 CHU]
Instant paper air planes – E. Richard Churchhill [SPL J 745.592 CHU]
Flying and floating – David Glover [PES 533.078 GLO]
Air and flight – Sally Hewitt [PES 533 HEW]
Eric Carle’s Treasury of Classic Stories for Children by Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson, and the Brothers Grimm [PES 398.2 CAR]
Little Red Riding Hood [PES 398.2 GRI]
Grimm’s Golden Goose [PES 398.2 GRI]
Hansel and Gretel [PES 398.2 GRI]
Tom Thumb [PES 398.2 GRI]
Jorinda and Joringel [PES 398.2 GRI]
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm [PES 398.2 GRI]
Three Gay Tales from Grimm [PES 398.2 GRI]
The Bremen Town Musicians [PES 398.2 GRI]
The Girl Who Spun Gold [PES 398.2 GRI]
The Little Jewel Box – retold by Marianne Mayer [PES 398.2 MAY]
Hansel and Gretel – retold by Rika Lesser [PES 398.2 LES]
The Water of Life - retold by Barbara Rogasky [PES 398.2 ROG]
Rapunzel – retold by Paul O. Zelinksy [PES 398.2 ZEL] – retold by Barbara Rogasky [PES 398.2 ROG]
From the Brothers Grimm - retold by Tom Davenport [PES 398.21 DAV]
Behind the Name [website]. http://www.behindthename.com/
First Names and What They Mean [website]. http://www.zelo.com/firstnames/index.asp
Time
The Book about Time – Marilyn Burns [PES 529 BUR]
Projects with Time (Simple Science Projects Series– John Williams [PES 529 W]
The Reasons for Seasons – Gail Gibbons [PES 525 G]
Tools and Gadgets (Historic Communities Series) – Bobbie Kalman [PES 680.9 KAL]
The Weaver’s Gift – Kathryn Lasky [PES 746.1 L]
The Weavers (Colonial American Craftsmen Series) - Leonard Everett Fisher [PES 746.1 F]
See live demonstrations of spinning at programs at the Glebe House, Flanders Nature Center, Bethlehem Fair, and Goshen Fair.
Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents
A.A. Milne
Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition [sic]. [SPL J MILNE]
The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh. [SPL J MILNE]
Eeyore Has a Birthday. [SPL J MILNE]
The House at Pooh Corner. [PES MIL] [SPL J MILNE]
Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest. [SPL J MILNE]
Now We Are Six. [PES 821 M] [SPL J 821 MIL]
Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting. [SPL J MILNE]
Pooh Goes Visiting. [SPL J MILNE]
Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast. [SPL PICTURE BOOK M]
Winnie the Pooh. [PES MIL] [SPL J MILNE/pb]
The World of Christopher Robin. [PES 821 M] [SPL J 821 MIL]
The World of Pooh. [PES M] [SPL J MILNE]
When We Were Very Young. [PES 821 M] [SPL J 821 MIL]
Birthdays [Keywords: birthdays; parties]
Celebrating Birthdays in China – Cheryl L. Enderlein [PES 394.2 Enderlein]
Happy Birthdays Around the World – Lois S. Johnson [PES 394 J]
The Best Birthday Parties Ever! A Kid’s Do-It-Yourself Guide – Kathy Ross [SPL J 793.2 ROS]
The Penny Whistle Birthday Party Book – Meredith Brokaw and Annie Gilbar [SPL J 793.21 BRO]
The Complete Book of Children’s Parties – Clare Beaton [SPL J 793.2 BEA]
Vicki Lansky’s Birthday Parties – Vicki Lansky [SPL J 793.21 LAN]
Everybody Has a Birthday – Caroline Arnold [SPL J 394 ARN]
Birthday Fun – Judith Hoffman Corwin [SPL J 793.21 COR]
Happy Birthday Parties! – Penny Warner [SPL J 793.21 WAR-pb]
Birthdays: A Celebration – Marilyn Atyeo [SPL J 793.21 ATY-pb]
Candles, Cakes, and Donkey Tale: Birthday Symbols and Celebrations – Lila Perl [SPL J 394.2 PER]
Balloons
Airplanes & Balloons – Howard Kantzke [PES 629.133 K]
Balloon Trip Sketchbook – Huck Scarry [PES 629.133 S] [SPL J 629.133 SCA]
Ships of the Air – Lyn Curlee [PES 629.133 CURLEE]
Hot Air Balloons – Christine Kalakurka [SPL J 629.1 KAL]
Balloons from Paper Bags to Sky Hooks – Peter Burchard [SPL J 629.13 BUR]
Ballooning – Phyllis J. Percy [SPL J 629.133 PER]
Where Do Balloons Go: An Uplifting Mystery – Jamie Lee Curtis [SPL PICTURE BOOK C]
Chemistry for Every Kid – Caroline Arnold [SPL J 392 ARN]
Science for Kids: 39 Easy Chemistry Experiments – Robert W. Woods [SPL J 590.78 WOO]
“When I Grow Up”
Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
The Crescent Moon [BIB]
Fireflies [BIB]
Moon, For What Do You Wait? [BIB]
Paper Boats [BIB]
Poetry by X.J. Kennedy
Knock at a Star: A Child’s Introduction to Poetry [BIB]
Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-Me Book of Poetry [SPL J 821.008 KEN]
The Forgetful Wishing Well: Poems for Young People [SPL J 811.54 KEN]
The Phantom Ice Cream Man: More Nonsense Verse [BIB]
Exploding Gravy: Poems to Make You Laugh [SPL J 811.54 KEN]
Native American Poetry [keywords: Indians of North America Juvenile Poetry]
When the Rain Sings: Poems by Young Native Americans[SPL YA 811.54 WHE]
Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children - [edited] by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale [SPL PARENT/TEACHER J 970.004 THR/PB]
Thirteen moons on turtle's back : a Native American year of moons – by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London [SPL J 811.54 BUR]
Dancing teepees : poems of American Indian youth – selected by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve [SPL J 897 DAN]
Careers [keywords: Occupations Fiction]
When I’m Big – Tim Drury [SPL J PICTURE BOOK A]
I am Me! – Alexa Brandenberg [SPL J PICTURE BOOK B]
When You Grow Up – Lennie Goodings [SPL J PICTURE BOOK G]
Career Day – Anne Rockwell [SPL J PICTURE BOOK R]
Things People Do – Anne Civardi [SPL J 331.7 CIV]
He Bear, She Bear – Stan and Jan Berenstain [SPL J BER/BEGINNER LEVEL I]
A Stitch in Time for the Brothers Rhyme – Julie Brinckloe [SPL J PICTURE BOOK B]
The King of the Frogs
The First Morning: An African Myth / Margery Bernstein & Janet Kobrin [PES 398.2 B]
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky / Elphinstone Dayrell [PES 398.2 D]
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters / John Steptoe [PES 398.2]
Talk, Talk: An Ashanti Legend / Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
Crocodile Listens / April Pulley Sayre [PES E SAY]
Abiyoyo / Pete Seeger [PES E SEE]
Crafty Chameleon / Hadithi Mwenye [PES E MWE]
Hot Hippo / Hadithi Mwenye [PES E MWE]
Count on Your Fingers African Style / Claudia Zaslavsky [PES 513 Z]
Moja Means One / Muriel Feelings [PES 496 FEE]
Jambo Means Hello / Muriel Feelings [PES 496 FEE]
The Life Cycle of a Frog / John Williams [597.8 WIL]
A Frog’s Body / Joanna Cole [PES 597.8 C]
Amazing Frogs & Toads / Barry Clarke [PES 597.86 C]
The Tree Frog / Syunichi Ueno [PES 597.8 T]
The Frog / Angela Royston [PES 597.8 R]
All About Frogs / Jim Aronsky [PES 597.8 A]
Frogs and Toads / Bobbie Kalman [PES 597.8 KAL]
Red-eyed Tree Frog / Joy Cowley [PES 597.8 C]
Crocodiles
The Crocodile / Paula Z. Hogan [PES 598.14 H]
Crocodiles and Alligators / John Cloudsley-Thompson [PES 598.1 C]
If You Find a Rock / Peggy Christian [PES 552 Christian]
Rocks and Minerals / Illa Podendorf [ PES 552 P]
Rocks and Minerals / R.F. Symes [PES 552 S]
Rocks and Minerals / Neil Morris [PES 552 Morris]
Rocks and Minerals / Kevin Lye [PES 552 L]
How do boats float? - http://www.eng.iastate.edu/explorer/topics/ships/float.htm
Archimedes of Syracuse: the father of buoancy - http://www.engineering.usu.edu/jrestate/workshop/buoyancy.htm
Ships 2: What floats your boat? - http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=302
Reeko’s Mad Scientist Lab: Why do ships float and elephants sink? - http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/floating.htm
The UnMuseum: Experiment with Buoyancy - http://www.unmuseum.org/exboyant.htm
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Eric Carle’s Treasury of Classic Stories for Children by Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson, and the Brothers Grimm [PES 398.2 CAR]
Little Red Riding Hood [PES 398.2 GRI]
Grimm’s Golden Goose [PES 398.2 GRI]
Hansel and Gretel [PES 398.2 GRI]
Tom Thumb [PES 398.2 GRI]
Jorinda and Joringel [PES 398.2 GRI]
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm [PES 398.2 GRI]
Three Gay Tales from Grimm [PES 398.2 GRI]
The Bremen Town Musicians [PES 398.2 GRI]
The Girl Who Spun Gold [PES 398.2 GRI]
The Little Jewel Box – retold by Marianne Mayer [PES 398.2 MAY]
Hansel and Gretel – retold by Rika Lesser [PES 398.2 LES]
The Water of Life - retold by Barbara Rogasky [PES 398.2 ROG]
Rapunzel – retold by Paul O. Zelinksy [PES 398.2 ZEL] – retold by Barbara Rogasky [PES 398.2 ROG]
From the Brothers Grimm - retold by Tom Davenport [PES 398.21 DAV]
Rare Treasures from Grimm: Fifteen Little Known Tales [SPL J 398.2 GRI]
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – retold by Randall Jarrell [SPL J 398.2 GRI]
From Ore to Spoon – Ali Mitgutsch [PES 669 Mi]
Crystal and Gem – R.F. Symes and R.R. Harding [PES 548 SYM;
Gold and Other Precious Metals – Charles Coombs [SPL J 669.22 COO]
The First Book of Gold – Winifred B. Luhrman [SPL J 661.065 LUH]
Rocks and Minerals – R.F. Symes [SPL J 549 SYM]
Coal – Betsy Harvey Kraft [SPL J 553 KRA]
The First Book of Silver – Sara Hannum Chase [SPL J 661.065 CHA]
Clothing Styles from Medieval Europe [Keywords: costume history]
Kings, Queens, Knights, and Jester: Making Medieval Costumes – Lynn Edelman Schnurnberger [SPL J 646.47 SCH]
Dress and Decoration of the Middle Ages – Henry Shaw [SPL Q 940.1 SHAW (adult oversize non-fiction]
From Top-Hats to Baseball Caps, From Bustles to Blue Jeans: Why We Dress the Way We Do – Lila Perl [SPL J 391.009 PER]
Science of Mirrors
Mirror Magic – Seymour Simon [SPL J 535.323 SIM]
What To Do If You Get Lost - Cynthia MacGregor [SPL PARENT'S SHELF J 613.6 MAC]
Now I Know Better: Kids Tell Kids About Safety - Yale New Haven Health [SPL J 613.6 NOW]
Now I Know Better, Too: Kids Tell Kids About Safety - Yale New Haven Health [SPL J 613.6 NOW]
We’re On Our Own: A Children’s Guide to Safety While Alone At Home – Jeanne L. Lokar [SPL PARENT'S SHELF J LOK/PB]
It’s Up to Me: A Children’s Guide to Personal Safety – Deborah J. Testi [SPL PARENT'S SHELF J TES/PB]
You’re OK: A Children’s Guide to Helping Friends – Jean B. Holler [SPL PARENT'S SHELF PICTURE BOOK H]
We’re Street Smart: A Children’s Guide to Street Safety – Frank Machovec [SPL PARENT'S SHELF J MAC/PB]
Stay Safe, Play Safe: A Book About Safety Rules – Barbara Seuling [SPL PARENT'S SHELF PICTURE BOOK S]
Keeping Children Safe from Strangers – National Crime Prevention Council, home page: http://www.mcgruff.org/ ; Tips for Kids Available at: Tips for Adults Available at: http://www.mcgruff.org/stranger.htm Tips for Kids Available at: http://www.mcgruff.org/tpstranger.htm
Stranger Danger: Street ProofingKids – The Parent Report (31 May 2001). Available at: http://www.theparentreport.com/resources/ages/preteen/safety/263.html
Lost Children: Tips on Crowd Safety – The Parent Report (30 May 2001). Available at: http://www.theparentreport.com/resources/ages/preteen/safety/261.html
Stranger Danger – Children’s Hospital of Pittsburg. For Kids Available at: http://www.chp.edu/besafe/kids/01stranger_danger.php ; For Parents Available at: http://www.chp.edu/besafe/adults/02stranger.php
Ready for Trouble: Teaching Your Kids about Stranger Danger – ABC News. Available at: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA020718Snatched_kids.html
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Available at: http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PublicHomeServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US
Do You Know How to Be Street Smart – The Nemours Foundations’ KidsHealth. Available at: http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/out/street_smart.html
Dwarfs and Physical Differences [Keywords: dwarfs, physically handicapped] important note: “In the past, the terms "dwarfism" and "dwarf" were only used to refer to these cases of disproportionate short stature. The term "midget" was usually applied to conditions of proportionate short stature, in which all parts of the body match in size. However, the word "midget" now is considered offensive by many people of short stature and has fallen into disuse. Today the term "dwarf" also takes a back seat to "little person," "person of short stature," or "person with dwarfism." Just like anyone else, though, people of short stature most like to be known by their names instead of any identifying characteristics like dwarfism.” – The Nemours Foundation. Warning: Internet searches using the term “midget” will lead mostly to offensive websites.
Thinking Big: The Story of a Young Dwarf – Susan Kuklin [PES 362.1 KUK; SPL J 362.1 KUK]
A Look at Physical Handicaps – Margaret Sanford Pursell [SPL J 362.4 PUR]
Notes from a Different Drummer – Barbara H. Baskin and Karen H. Haskin [SPL 010 BAS (adult non-fiction)]
Living with Physical Handicap – John Shenkman [SPL J 649.1 SHE]
Little People of America Online (website of non-profit advocacy organization for dwarfs and midgets); available at: http://www.lpaonline.org/index.html The following articles are selected from the LPA Online Library:
A Dream Lives in a Grand Design
By Timothy Egan, photos by Susan E. Seubert, the New York Times, September 30, 1999. A feature on Matt Roloff's Western-theme, dwarf-proportion fantasy park near Portland, Oregon. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/library/home/093099roloff-compound.html
The
Seven Dwarfs and I
By Cara M. Egan. Originally published as a "My Turn" essay in Newsweek
magazine. Available at: http://www.dankennedy.net/dwarfism_myturn.html
Aiming
High
By Melissa Hendricks, photos by Mike Ciesielski, Johns Hopkins Magazine,
April 1999. A profile of Dr. Michael Ain, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon who is
an achondroplastic dwarf. Available at: http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0499web/ortho.html
Mysterious Animals
Bow Wow Meow: It’s Rhyming Cats and Dogs / Douglas Florian. [BIB]
Curious Catwalk / John Gravdahl. [BIB]
K is for Kitten / Niki Clark Leopold ; illustrated by Susan Jeffers. [BIB]
Who Bob / Jonathan London. [SBY PICTURE BOOK L]
I Am the Cat / Alice Schertle. [BIB]
Curious Cats: In Art and Poetry for Children / William Lach. [BIB]
Cats Sleep Anywhere / Eleanor Farjeon. [BIB]
The Rubyiat of a Persian Kitten / Oliver Herford. [BIB]
Raining Cats and Dogs / Jane Yolen. [BIB]
Cats Are Cats / Nancy Larrick [SBY J 811.5 CAT]
This big cat, and other cats I've known / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. [BIB]
I Am the Cat / Lee Bennet Hopkins (ed.). [BIB]
Country, Cat, City, Cat / by David Kherdian ; woodcuts by Nonny Hogrogian. [BIB]
The adventures & brave deeds of the ship's cat on the Spanish Maine : together with the most lamentable losse of the Alcestis & triumphant firing of the port of Chagres / Richard Adams. [BIB]
The owl and the pussy-cat and other verses / Edward Lear. [BIB]
Whiskers & rhymes / written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel. [SBY PICTURE BOOK L]
Possum come a knockin' / Nancy Van Laan. [SBY]
Can you do this, Old Badger? / Eve Bunting. [SBY]
Edwina the emu / Sheena Knowles, Rod Clement. [BIB]
Stuff & nonsense / compiled by Michael Dugan. [BIB]
Waltzing Matilda / A. B. Paterson. [BIB]
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats / T.S. Eliot. [SBY 821.912 ELI; BIB]
Two Wise Children / Robert Graves. [BIB]
Where are the night animals? / Mary Ann Fraser. [SBY]
Creatures of the night / Jim Pipe. [SBY]
Night life : nature from dusk to dawn / Diana Kappel-Smith. [SBY]
Animals of the dark / Gwynne Vevers. [SBY]
Night animals / Millicent E. Selsam. [SBY]
Creatures of the night / Judith E. Rinard. [SBY]
Night rovers; flying squirrels and their neighbors. [SBY]
I didn't know that only some big cats can roar / Claire Llewellyn. [SBY]
Skunks and their relatives / John Bonnett Wexo. [SBY]
Discovering badgers / Martin Banks. [SBY]
Social Dancing
Folk dancing / Lydia Anderson. [SBY]
The dance through the ages / Sorell, Walter. [SBY]
Phase of the Moon [Keywords: moon phases;
Does the moon change shape? / Meish Goldish. [SBY]
The moon / Isaac Asimov. [BIB]
Tell me why the moon changes shape / Shirley Willis. [BIB]
The moon book / Gail Gibbons. [BIB]
The moon seems to change / Franklyn M. Branley. [BIB]
23 May 2003
Greetings JGB Readers and Partners:
Our school year is drawing to a close and there will be only three more opportunities for our group to meet. (This Tuesday the First Graders went on a field trip to a wild animal farm.) Due to specials at school, we didn’t meet the past three weeks. To ensure that everyone recalls the details of our current story, The King of the Frogs, please read that selection aloud shortly before our next meeting, 27 May.
Here’s the schedule for our last three sessions:
ü 27 May – Discuss The King of the Frogs; First reading, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;
ü 3 June – Discuss Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; First reading, “Mysterious Animals”;
ü 10 June – Discuss “Mysterious Animals”; end of year celebration.
I’ve enjoyed sharing these stories and watching the sophistication of our young readers grow. I’ll be working with Mrs. Stasiunus to offer the program in the Second Grade next year, although she doesn’t anticipate that our meetings could be held during the school day. Please let her know if you and your reader would want to participate in a before school or after school program. We’re also looking for parent volunteers for a new First-Grade group.
To guide the planning for future reading enrichment programs, I’d appreciate you and your reader responding to the enclosed feedback questionnaires and returning them to me or Nancy Stasiunus at PES. Please feel free to add your own comments or telephone me to discuss the program in more depth.
Over the summer, I encourage you to re-read the stories in the three volumes in the JGB Sun Series. I chose to leave each student’s question for the story in their books to provide a point for comparison with later readings and discussions. I’ve given a copy of our “Read More About It” lists to the children’s librarian at the Southbury Public Library. Those books might be a source of ideas for summer reading. I will give the students some questions to think about related to those works over summer. Try some simple library “research” sessions about things that interest your child – the librarian will be glad to help you.
Thanks for being a part of the PES Junior Great Books Read-Aloud Program.
Barbara J. Hampton
264-4772
e-mail: redline3@earthlink.net
PES Junior Great Books Read-Aloud Program 2003
Reader’s Feedback
I hope you’ve enjoyed our Junior Great Books meetings. Could you please help me by telling me what you liked or disliked? First, please circle the name of the story/poetry group which you liked best so far:
The Black Hen’s Egg
The Mouse and the
Wizard
“Imagination”
“When I Grow Up”
The King of the Frogs
Rumplestiltskin
Eeyore Has A Birthday
And Gets Two Presents
Please circle the response that best describes how you feel about different parts of our JGB reading enrichment group:
1. Listening to the stories for the first time in our group.
M J K L 3
Loved it! Liked it. So-So. Not so good. Hated it!
2. Making drawings for the stories.
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3. Sharing snacks that go with the stories.
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4. Doing projects/ experiments.
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5. Hearing the stories a second time at home.
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6. Choosing an answer for GB’s questions.
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7. Talking about the stories with your at-home partner.
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8. Writing my own questions.
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9. Talking about the stories in our group at school.
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Tell me what you’d like to do to make our JGB program better:
PES Junior Great Books Read-Aloud Program 2003
Adult Partner’s Feedback
I hope you’ve enjoyed our Junior Great Books meetings. Could you please help me by telling me what you liked or disliked? First, please circle the name of the story/poetry group which you liked best so far:
The Black Hen’s Egg
The Mouse and the
Wizard
“Imagination”
“When I Grow Up”
The King of the Frogs
Rumplestiltskin
Eeyore Has a Birthday
and Gets Two Present
Please circle the response that best describes yours and your child’s experience with the JGB program:
1. Sufficiency of communications to parents about the program:
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Loved it! Liked it. So-So. Not so good. Hated it!
2. Interest level for the stories and poems:
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Loved it! Liked it. So-So. Not so good. Hated it!
3. Vocabulary of stories and poems:
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4. GB’s questions:
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5. Shared inquiry method for discussing stories with your child:
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6. Children’s own illustrations of stories:
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7. “Read More About It” book lists:
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8. Development of your child’s ability to interpret text and find evidence for interpretations in text:
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Please tell me which part(s) of the curriculum and program you used and whether they were helpful:
9. We read the stories at home:
Never Once in a while Once each week More than once a week
10. I looked at the Junior Great Books website:
Never Briefly Thoroughly
11. I completed the online tutorial to learn more about the JGB Shared Inquiry Method:
Not at all Partially Entirely
12. I would be interested in taking the two-day certification program to become a JGB leader.
Yes No
13. My child and I used the “Read More About It” lists to finds books and websites of interest:
Never Once Occasionally Regularly
Tell me how we can make our JGB program better:
PES Junior Great Books Read-Aloud Program 2003
Summer Treasure Hunt
Libraries and books are treasure chests that readers can unlock. Here are some clues that you can solve that relate to the stories we read this spring. Use the “Read More About It” lists (the librarians have copies) and the keywords.
1. What color are the eggs of the birds that live near your home?
2. How are tigers like housecats? How are they different?
3. Try out several different paper airplane designs. What do you like best about each one?
4. Visit a spinning demonstration at a summer fair or a museum. If possible, try out the tools used to create the yarn or thread. Visit a yarn store to see some of the different kinds of yarn available.
5. Try some experiments with balloons; watch for hot-air balloons taking off or landing in our area.
6. Find out more about a career that interests you. Do you know someone with that job? What schools do you need to go to for that sort of work? Where might you get a job like that?
7. Get a book about frogs and find a good spot for “frogging” – how many did you see? Can you hear different kinds of frog croaks?
8. Talk with your parents about what to do if you’re lost in the woods and other ways to stay safe.
9. What nocturnal (nighttime) animals live in our area? Have you seen any of them?