EDRG 3344 Reflection

I notice that we had a blog due last week about our reflection of our progress. Today, I presented my MGP about Frogs. I could not believe how nervous I was when I was in front of the class. My hands started to shake and I could feel the nervousness in my throat. Not sure why this was because I have taught in many class rooms with many students before. I think now for me I wanted to make sure that I did this assignment to my best ability and wanted the teacher's approval. Once I did the presentation that took just a few minutes it was no big deal. I know I just want to be able to come across to my students and have them engage in my classroom. I have learned so many strategies and techniques to help me teaching in the classroom along with meeting new people and hearing their experience as well. Looking forward to finishing up the semester and some time with my family for the holidays. Happy Holidays to all.

This is my last two author profile for the semester. Hooray for me! The author for this book is Gary Paulsen. The front cover of this book will attract the attention of your students. It's a little boy who is riding a lawn mover with sunglasses who looks cool. The book is about a comic story about a summer job that becomes a slapstick lesson in business as one boy turns as mountain of grass into a mountain of cash.

This book from the My little Pony series is The Runaway Rainbow by Nora Pelizzari. I remember when I was a child reading about the little ponies and now my daughter has several books from the series. The pictures on the book are so colorful and bright that will catch any child's attention. Talks about making the first rainbow of the season and how it gets away.

EDRG 3321 author profile

Here are so more author profiles for the class.

The Monster That Glowed in the Dark by Annie Ingle. This book is about a fuzzy monster that glows in the dark. Just expose the pages of the book to the light and the monster actually glows in the dark. When you turn off the light, he'll start to glow anywhere. Great book for kids to interact with each other and the teacher.

Dancing wit Manatees by Faith McNulty and illustrated by Lean Shiffman. This book is a reader book that will help the students with there reading. Simple words, and short sentences for the newest readers as well and vocabulary and sentences for beginning readers. It talks about manatees and how they are gentle, peaceful animals. Who live all their lives in water.

Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew by Carolyn Keene and illustrated by Macky Pamintuan. This book is about Bess and George are fighting and Nancy's caught in the middle. It's Valentines Day, and things are not all flowers and hearts. Nancy two best friends are fighting. Cute book for girls who like to read about stuff animals and so one. For about second grade.

EDRG 3321 Blog of presentations

Today was a few more groups presentation. All the groups did an excellent job. The group with the tree cookie and apple along with Wendi narrating the poem was great. They did such a good job on the poster and was quite interesting to me. The next group who had the newspaper was an inventive project. Students will love to make their own newspaper article and I believe that the students would have fun with it. The last group to go had the hand man game which was fun have not played that game in years. But not only was it fun but educational as well for the students. Some students wouldn't even pay attention that you are teaching them they will just think of the game and it is a win win situation for both of them. Great presentations.

EDRG 3344 Blooms taxonomy

Today in class we talked about the different levels of the bloom’s taxonomy. We are to give an example of each level.

Remembering: The students will be able to tell the differences between frogs by a picture and matching them up at 90% accuracy.

Understanding: The students will be able to explain what the main idea is by explanation @ 90% accuracy.

Applying: The students will be able to solve math addition problems using a chart that was made by the student @90%accuracy.

Analyzing: The student will compare living and non living organism and put them on a spreadsheet to show the comparison of the two @ 90% accuracy.

Evaluating: The student will evaluate their progress in their school work and put it into a report to give it to the teacher @ 85% accuracy.

Creating: The student will then take their reports with the early information and put it into power point presentation @95% accuracy.

EDRG 3321 author profile

This book is retold by Edith H. Tarcov and illustrated by James Marshall.

This book and simple words ad short sentences for the newest readers. Also has vocabulary and sentences length for beginners. This book is about a frog who rescues a golden ball for a princess and now wants to be her friend. Bright color pictures to keep the kids engage to listen while they are reading or the teacher is reading to them.

Watch Out, Ariel written by Jacqueline A. Ball illustrated by Caveman Productions. A story about paying attention Ariel is always not paying attention to people or the animals when they are asking questions which leads to her almost missing the ball. Later realized that paying attention the first time is always better. Bright colored pictures for the children as well.

EDRG 3321 author profiles for Nov 24

Grover Sleeps Over written by Elizabeth Winthrop Illustrated by Maggie Swanson.

This book is about Grover first sleep over and the challenges that come along with it. How is packs all of his favorite things to his fish, cereal, and animal.

Parents trust sesame street to help guide their children through important learning experiences. Cute book remember this one when I was younger.

The Little Mermaid by Megan E. Bryant Illustrated by Tonya and John Huxtable.

This book is about when Strawberry Shortcake visits the beach. She starts to daydream about a little mermaid name Pearl berry who wants to live on land more than anything in the world. Just like the original this is change to fit Strawberry Shortcake.

I love this book it is a soft to touch book. Written by Piers Harper. This book has a soft to touch bear on every page. So that it is interacted with the children and they will be able to touch and see the pictures. It's about a baby polar bear seeing the world for the first time. Very cute love it.

EDRG 3321 presentations

Today we had two presentations that were given in class. One was about 4 different stories in one genre. The four ladies that presented did an awesome job. The little doll with lamb was a great illustration and the children will love to see the puppet and little lamb. When Karen was talking about grace and in her story and then at the end of their presentation sang Amazing Grace I thought was very good. What a way to bring in morals and values in the classroom with out bringing up the subject that is so not aloud in school. I though this group did an excellent job.

EDRG 3321 Author profile week Nov 19

This book is written by Barbara Seuling and illustrated by Paul Brewer.

This book is about Robert who it is his birthday and trying to blow out his candles and his brother replaced them with trick candles and Robert wished that his brother would stop treating like a dumb little kid.

The book Muggie Maggie written by Beverly Clearly is about Maggie who writes cursive messy and does not want to continue to write in cursive and refuses. Her teacher makes her the messenger however the messages are in cursive and Maggie believes that they are about her and now she says she has a problem.

Cleary's usual perception and understanding of children, her ability to appeal to readers on several levels and her humor are enjoyable to read.

Lucky written by Jane E Gerver Illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers. This book is about two girls and one of the girls can't ride a horse and the other one can. First, the girl who can ride teaches her sister to ride and then they enter a race. Amy is afraid to jump in the show and will Lucky be brave enough to help her make the jump. Cute book my daughter has read this book several times.

Blog for week of Nov 19

I was not in class today. However, I heard that the presentation of the ratti tat book was good. One of my classmates was talking about it to me. How they made a play with puppets and even had bloppers and edits at the end of the skit. Said it was good and very cute. Wish I had been there for it.

EDRG 3344 Expository

Expository Piece

Is a poster board that will have the different types of food that they eat, and where they live and how they live. I am using the poster board so that the kindergarten class will be able to see the visual and place words with pictures. Hopefully, the poster board comes out great!

EDRG 3344 Star Trek

This was a painful class day for me. I don't like Star Trek and vowed to never watched it. However, it was a good example for the class and what we were talking about. I choose the question Is Captain Dathon's sacrifice worth it? Why?
Yes, I think that the Captain's sacrifice was worth is. He was trying to communicate between the two and knew that this would make it possible for them to. He wanted to let the other ship crew know that they were not hostile and wanted to be able to communicate with other people beside themselves. In the beginning both ships did not know what each other was saying and when the captain from both of the ships were beamed down each of the captain's started to put things together. So yes it was a huge sacrifice but a well worth one.

EDRG 3344 Descriptive Piece

I know I am behind on this, I hit a wall and really could not figure what to do. So, today I sat down and devoted the whole day to getting caught up and pushing threw to complete my work. So for my descriptive piece I am writing a descriptive poem. I have kindergarten for my age group.

Frogs

I am different colors from green, brown, grey, orange, blue, yellow, and purple.
I like to eat bugs and worms.
I live near lakes, ponds, and streams.
I use my sticky tongue to catch for my food.
I like to jump from one spot to another.
What am I?

A frog that’s what!

EDRG 3321 Author profile week of Nov 10

My daughter loves to read this book called

Junie B., First Grader Cheater Pants

by Barbara Park

This book is about Junie who has all the answers when it comes to cheating. So she thinks. Some of the questions she asked herself, What about copying someone else homework, what is a friend shares an answer with you is that cheating? Great book for a first-grade read aloud. Kids would enjoy it as well as a moral lesson in it and they wouldn't even know it.

Another author is Ellen Miles, The Puppy Place Where every puppy finds a home Princess

The story is about a dog who is spoiled rotten and needs to find a home to do her previous owner can no longer keep her and is not sure he will find someone who will treat her like a princess like she is truly is.

Charlotte's Web New in the Barn by Catherine Hapka

Everyone knows about Wilbur the pig. Who is friends with Fern.

Wilbur is a growing pig as there is no room for the pig at the Arable House and moves to the Zuckerman's farm where he will have to make new friends but will anyone as special as Fern. Then he meets Charlotte who becomes his new best friend.

EDRG 3321 Shared Reading

Shared reading is define as a collaborative learning activity. Some students find this activity to be fun and can't wait to do this in class. However, other who may have a learning disability might find this frustrating to them. A child who sits on the edge of their seat who might my ADHA would have a hard time focusing on the teacher. For me when we did the shared reading in class it was hard for me to focus. I am a visual learner and need to see what I am doing. I need to be able to see and read the book for myself so that I can put the words I am saying to the words I see on the paper. I can see where for me I did not enjoy this activity and so would other children. But since we have all kinds of learners we need to make sure the students are all engage and make it work so way.

EDRG 3321 author profile week of Nov 3

This week I bought another frog book from the bookfair at Texas A&M. I love my frog books this one is called Frogswritten by Nic Bishop.

He also has a website for his other books here is the website http://www.nicbishop.com/nic_bishop_home_page_016.htm

This book talks all about the different types of frogs where they live and eat and all about them. The book is very colorful and very detail pictures. Kids will love the pictures and the detail information on the frogs.

EDRG 3321 Ch 9 Non fiction

I am relieved now I have finally caught with all my blogs and author profile. In class when Prof. Pickett was talking about how boys tend not to like to read and usually don't get involved with reading because it doesn't interest them. We as teachers need to make sure that we have different kinds on fiction and nonfiction along with other genre books so keep them engage. I remember when she said I believe a student she had and he like reading horror books like Steven King and no other teacher could relate to him but she did and that help the student to know that it is OK not read everything else others are reading. But you are reading and that will help you in your future to have more words and knowledge. Teachers need to be willing to go the distance and find what will help that student was to read and continue to read.

EDRG 3321 author profile for week Oct 22

I pick the book Adventures of Riley Missio to Madagascar written by Amanda Lumry and Laura Hurwitz and illustated by Sarah McIntyre.

This book is about Riley going to Madagascar to find a rare lemur. On her way to finding the lemur she has many little adventures in finding trees called Baobab trees, and hissing cockroaches, mantella frogs. and many more. Once Riley gets back to school he tells of his adventures and how these animals are not found elsewhere in the world and how they are becoming so few. All the kids in the school are around him and all are trying to see his picture and be able to hear the stories. Nice book and colorful pictures.

EDRG 3321 Chpater 8 Fiction

We were able to write about the chapter or what we did in class so I pick what we did in class. This day Mrs. Pickett had us make a book about what fiction was to us. On the front of the page we put on their what we thought fiction was. Before this class if you would of ask me I would of just said something gloomy, dark and so on. Really didn't think of the fairy tales that are fiction. So the first side we had put words that our group thought fiction was like, fairy tales, mermaids, and so on. Then inside we drew a mermaid on water for a fiction picture. She was on a rock just sitting there. Although a life a mermaid would be nice and some would like to live that way we all know they are not real. In fiction books it gives the child the opportunity to use their imagination and picture somethings that they wouldn't normally do. This is why as teachers we need to be able to give different genres books in the classroom. So that all the children will have something that interests them and they will read.

EDRG 3321 author profile for the week of Oct 15

The book I pick for this week is The Pout-Pout Fish
written by Deborah Diesen Pictures by Dan Hanna


I purchased this book from a book fair just because of the colors of the book and the sign said it was a great picture book. When reading this book I fell in love with it. It was about a fish who thought he was a pout-pout fish so he was always sad. His friends tried many times asking him why he was always gloomy. Until one of the fish just went up to him and kissed him. He suddenly change his attitude and then began to say he was a kiss kiss fish and was kissing all the fish and was a happy fish now. I can't wait to be able to read this to my class. Really fell in love with the book. Great pictures but also has a little lesson that anyone can change their attitude just sometimes they need a little something from a friend.

EDRG 3321 chapter 7 blog

Instead of doing the blog on chapter 7 I did the other assignment of looking up an old original fairytale. When I was researching online found a website with many of the old version of fairy tales. It is http://www.dbskeptic.com/2008/10/27/original-versions-of-classic-fairy-tales/. It listed several and what they were. The one I chose was The Original story of Sleeping Beauty. The story started off basically the same where Sleeping Beauty fall into a sleep for 100 years due to a evil fairy placing a curse on her when she prick her finger. The difference is the prince falls in lust with her and rapes her when she is sleeping and she becomes pregnant and then later gives birth to twins. While she is still sleeping the baby breast feeds themselves until one day the baby starting to suck on the mother's finger and then the baby sucks out the splinter and the spell in broken. Very much different from the one that is told this day and time. Quite interesting to me how in time how the story line and change so much.

EDRG 3321 author profile for week of Oct 8

The book I pick for this week was

Eats, Shoot's, and Leaves Why, Commas Really Do Make A Difference

written by Lynne Truss and Illustrated by Bonnie Timmons

This is a cute book that shows a young age group about commas usage. Throughout the book it has the same sentence one on one side of the page with comma's in the wrong place and then on the other side of the page with the correct usage so that the child who reads the books can see and read of it is in the book. Great way for kids to see. In the back of the book gives more examples of how to use commas and why you should use them in what usage. Really like this book and the kids will love it too.

EDRG 3321 blog chapter 6

In this chapter it talks about many different elements that are shown in the literature. From plot, too settings, characterization, style, and themes. There is a section in this chapter that talks about building a library for your classroom. This is important to have in your classroom so that the children can learn about different genres. Having beautiful illustrated picture books will be good for young children to have the opportunity to look at them. It stated in the book also to start a collection with a good anthologies stories the suit the age group you are working on. Have books from all different cultures so that are the children will have the chance to relate to the book if possible. If starting you library you will want to have appropriate books for young, middle school and high school students. Just depending on the age you have in your classroom. Books are a way for children to escape and see things that they would not normally see or read. Reading is important for all ages and children or students need to have the opportunity to choose the books they would like to read so that they are not forced to read something that they might not want to.

EDRG 3344 Persusive Piece

For my persuasive piece I am writing a letter to my little friends. Dear Little Yummy friends, I am a frog who loves to eat. I eat all kinds of bugs and worms. I know that you are out there and I will wait patiently for you. Except for an occasional blink for me, I will sit motionless and wait for you to fly by and then with my long sticky tongue get you. My tongue will hurl out with is stickiness and then when I catch you I will curl my tongue back in and swallow you. It is almost like casting out a fish line and then reeling in back in. My tongue is attached to the front instead on the back. So, I know that you will be by so don’t be upset when I catch you in the blink of an eye.

EDRG narrative for MGP

This is only my first attempt on the narrative and was working on a book. So it is in processs. Like writing is a process.

Frankie the Frog

One day Frankie the Frog was jumping from one lily pad to the next, wondering where all the other frogs like Frankie lived.

Frankie was always the only frog in this pond and often is there was anyone else like him out there.

So one day Frankie decided to go on a hopping scavendar hunt for other frogs like him. So as Frankie leaves he begins to hop and hop and Croak and croak.

As Frankie starts his journey he runs into a tree frog, which is named Bertha. Bertha was so unhappy to see another frog on her turf. She said move on threw, move on threw no room for you here. You don’t belong here. All Frankie wanted from Bertha was to ask her a question or two and she would not allow it. So Frankie went on to hopping and croaking. Croak, Croak

Frankie the frog now comes to a big carpenter frog named Bobby. Bobby was on a gigantic lily pad all by himself. Frankie thought for sure that Bobby would help him find more frogs like Frankie. Bobby says you do not belong here with all of us bull frogs get out of here. Frankie was sad and move on. He started to hop, hop, and hop so more to find some frogs just like him. Croak Croak.

So, Frankie is hopping for a long time now and comes up to this beautiful pond and he noticed something right off. There were not just one frog at this pond but they were many frogs and frogs that look just like him. Frankie was so excited he did not know who to ask or what to do. Frankie finally saw a frog that look just like him just a tad bit larger. It was a big bull frog and his name was Billy. Frankie started to ask Billy why he was the only frog at the other pond and Billy said Hey Frankie it’s me your cousin you got lost from us. That was no pond that was a puddle. We live hear and were wondering when you would make your way back. Frankie the frog was so excited to be home with all his family and friends that he kept on saying Croak, croak, Croak.

EDRG 3321 author profile

EDRG 3321 Author Profile

I am very fortunate that my daughter loves to read. We buy her books every two weeks and she reads them faster than I can buy them. We tried the library but once she reads them she like to keep them. One of the recent books we got for her was Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. It was a New York Times Bestseller, a Parent’s Choice Gold Award Winner to name just a few awards for it. She said she loved this book. There is also a website all about Kate DiCamillo any questions about her and her upcoming book as well. The website is as follows: http://www.katedicamillo.com/journal.html.

Great writer with a child like imagination.

EDRG 3321 Little Red Riding Hood Ch 5

EDRG 3321 Little Red Riding Hood

Wow! I had not heard of the original story of the Little Red Riding Hood. I would have never thought of reading this version to my daughter. As a child, I remember my mother and father reading me fairy tale stories but nothing like this one ever. However, the different symbolizes throughout the story would be a good thing for the high school level. It would allow them to look deep into the writing and pick out the different symbolism throughout the whole story. In the story it talks about the bzou who asks the girl when she comes in is she is hungry to cook up the meat which was her grandmother and is she was thirsty to drink the wine which was her grandmother’s blood. When it talks about the girl taking different pieces of clothing off and throwing it into the fire it resembles her moving on to an adult woman. It is all symbolic and relates to something in life and moving on. Quite interesting never had heard a different version before class.

EDRG 3344 Talking benefits the student.

EDRG 3344 Why talking benefits students in the classroom?

First, it allows for the students who are shy to be able to talk to their peers in small groups. The shy students are then able to voice their opinions because maybe they are scared by the whole class at one time verses small groups. Students talking in the classroom also allows for different ideas from other students to bounce off of each other. Maybe if a student is talking it allows for another student to literate off that idea and then that student is able to complete the assignment or gets a more understanding of the assignment for that session. For example, like the example we did in the class on Tuesday about the snickers being better than the Twix. Of course, I was on the snickers side. Anyway, it allowed for some students who have never talk up in class the opportunity to do so in this setting of a debate. You can have a debate in your classroom with your students with all kinds of subjects just need to set some guidelines for them. So things don’t get out of hand. Having the students talk in class is also a way for you as the teacher to maybe get to know a little more about the student learning styles by watching the students while they are in a debate or small groups. Students need that chance to talk and not just have robot for a teacher who always talks and never lets the student participate in class. Then the student becomes not interested in class and the teacher looses the student.

EDRG 3321 author profile

EDRG 3321 author profile 3

Here is a website that picks out the best of the best in books from all authors. It will tell you about the book, rating, and curriculum to do with the book. Fun and exciting website
http://www.carolhurst.com/. Hope you enjoy.

Also, I was given the book Missing May by Cynthia Rylant for my daughter to read. She is in third grade and couldn’t put in down. She enjoyed the characters and wanted to know what would happen next. This book was the winner of the Boston Globe and Booklist Top of the List.

EDRG 3321 Maya Angelou

EDRG 3321 Maya Angelou

Today in class was a WOW factor for me. I personally had not heard from Maya Angelou before and she is an amazing woman. Maya is a poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director. To live a life as she has, Maya has so much knowledge and wisdom and was very visible in her interview. There were certain moments where I went said in my mind “that makes sense now”. My eyes were glued to the screen just wanting her to talk more. I found her so interesting to listen to her. When she was talking about Shakespeare and how she related the author to being a bare foot woman just like her. It makes you realize that children as relate things to their own personal experiences and teachers tend to forget it. We as soon to be teachers need to make sure we give our students all the opportunities to our students and let them know we are there for them and what they need; we will do our best to provide it for them. The students are the future and we need not to put limitations on them and let them explore to their heart desire. Poetry can be interpreted in many ways to people who read it. I wanted to listen to Maya Angelou keep on reciting the poems that have touch her over the years and that she has keep dear to her heart. This was an awesome video in class. Thanks for sharing it.

EDRG 3321 author profile blog

EDRG 3321 Author Profile 2

Book/Website: Scholastic First Discovery Butterflies, Scholastic First Discovery The Human Body

Author: Gallimard Jeunesse and Sylvaine Peyrols

My opinion of this book: The Human Body book talks about the body and how is grows. It actually shows a child and the name of all the parts of the body. This book shows the child how and what is needed for their body to grow to by strong. The same with the butterfly book it shows the life of the butterfly. These two books are eduacitonal books for the classrooms.

EDRG 3321 Chapter 4

EDRG 3321 Chapter 4

I really enjoyed the activity we did in class on Thursday. Reading the story three different times from three different perspectives allows you to realize not everyone is going to have the same perspective. What I got out is not the same from the student next to me and that is what will happen in your classrooms. You will have different students who perceive different perspectives from the reading assignments that you give out.
We as teachers need to make sure that we give the children opportunities to deepen their knowledge threw literature. Have the children do activity before reading, during reading, and after reading to get their mind in motion. They also can have journals or graphic organizers to be able to reflect what they believe are going on in the story. Or write what they feel about and how they like or dislike the story. Have the student retell the story through a skit or a discussion. There are endless ways to get the student involves with reading and having them enjoy what they are reading. The teacher just needs to be aware of all her students and make sure that all of her students are engage and loving to read.

EDRG 3344 Memories

EDRG 3344 Memories

In class on Thursday, the class was talking about their past memories. Some that made you laugh, cry, and think about the ones you had forgotten yourself from the past. One of my memories that I talked about was cry. I have a daughter who is now eight years old and in great health. Praise God. When she was born she was born with fourteen birthmarks all over her body. They are called hemangiomas. The doctor at the time told us that they are not harmful to her and they would disappear as she got older. A few months had gone by and several of them did go away. One afternoon my daughter bumps her head on my coffee table and got this humorous bump on the left side of her forehead. I took her to the doctor and they said the bump will go down in a few days not to worry. A few days turned to weeks and then a few months. At this time we are seeing a Neurologist who now tells me it may be a tumor. My daughter is about 7 ½ months old now. They ran several tests. The hardest for me was her blood test because the hospital tied her down to take blood from her arms. Thank heavens for moms who will stand by you at any given time. The doctor at this time said the only way to make sure that it is not a cancerous tumor is to remove it and be tested. My husband and I decided to go ahead with the surgery and hope for the best. The day of the surgery I was awful mess. It was so hard for me to keep myself in order. By this time she is 8 months old and has never been away from me. Everyday I was with her feed her, bathed her, and held her at all times. As they gave her medicine to start to calm her it did not work. They ended up taking her out of my arms and just take her straight to the operating room. The terror in her cry killed me. I finally at this time broke down completely. I could not quit crying and wondering what was taking so long. The doctor had told us it would be a 15 minutes procedure and almost 1 ½ later he walks through the doors. That was the longest 1 minute walk he took from the doors to me it felt like an eternity. He had told us the surgery went fine and that they went ahead and took out the whole mass from her head. A sigh of relief that she out of the surgery and doing well. Going into the recovery room and holding her I till this day can remember the smell after the surgery. It was a burnt smell from the doctors cutting her from ear to ear and the iodine made me sick to smell it. I not sure if it was the smell of that or all the stress from that day but I suddenly got very sick to my stomached. We were finally aloud to take her home and got the results from the test and the mass ended up being one of those birthmarks called hemangiomas that were growing on to her skull. The doctor said it was a good thing that they removed it now to prevent further damages. This memory still to this day makes me cry. You don’t realize how precious life is till you come to a situation like this and it could be taken away at a blink of an eye. Today she only has 4 more of the hemangomas birthmarks left and they themselves are almost completely gone.

EDRG 3321 Author profile

EDRG 3321 Author Profile 1

Book/Website: Froggy Plays T-Ball is a book I have in my personal library. I love books about frogs any in kind of situation. When looking into The Froggy Books realized there are more to the collection and even the author has is own website which is http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001557.shtml.

Author: Jonathan London

My opinion of this book: This book has lots of colorful pages which will keep the child’s attention on the book. It if fun for all and is good for a read aloud book. The children will really enjoy the book.

Bio: Jonathan London bio that I took from his website.

My ideas for stories come from experience I've had, or from dreams or leap right out of my head - from my ever-active imagination," explains Jonathan London, who burst on the children's book scene in 1992 with the publication of three picture books. Since then he has published more than 20 picture books, including the popular Froggy series and the young adult novel, Where's Home?

EDRG 3344 RAFT second one

EDRG 3344 RAFT
I am doing this assignment over again because I am not sure if I did it correctly the last time so here I go again and maybe now I will be able to go to sleep.

(R) Purse
(A) Owner
(F) Letter (T) To properly use me


Oh how I love when you use me everyday. How I get to see the world and different places you go everyday. I get to go to the movies, dinner and shopping. I will never forget the time we went to Paris and saw such beautiful places. I even remember that you bought a new purse but continued to use me instead. But most of all you put valuable things in me everyday. I take great pleasure on watching out for your wallet and of course your make-up. Where would I be if you choose not to use me? However, I don’t want you to think that I am ungrateful for the use and all the special things I get to see when I am on your shoulder. I only have one request of you my gracious owner. Please, Please, Please clean me out. I am starting to feel suffocated in here. I need some space to be able to do breathe. I take pride on looking my best on the outside and would appreciate if you would help with the inside me. I do get tired of you throwing your gum wrappers, receipts and whatever you find possible to fit in me. If we can work together I will be a great purse on the outside and on the inside. I look forward to many more adventures with you. Thanks.

EDRG 3344 R.A.F.T.

EDRG 3344 TH

R.A.F.T. (R) Sounds (A) Kindergarten (F) Poem (T) Learn the sounds of the alphabet

Aa
Pam the Lamb
I’m Pam the Lamb, I am.
This is how I tell the farmer where I am:
/a/a/a/a/a/
I’m Pam the lamb I am.
This is how I tell my friends where I am:
/a/a/a/a/a/
Bb
Bobby
Bobby loves his basketball.
He bounces it all day.
The ball goes: /b/b/b/b/b/
As it bounces on its way.
Cc
Carlos
Carlos clicks his camera.
/k/k/k/k/k/, it goes.
The pictures come out crisp and clear.
So give a smile…/k/k/k/k/k/.
Carlos is here!
Dd
Dinah
Dinah, the Dancing Dinosaur,
had huge and clumsy feet.
They went /d/d/d/d/d/
as Dinah kept the beat.
Ee
Jen’s Pet Hen
Jen’s pet hen likes to peck, peck, peck: /e/e/e/e/e/.
She pecks at a speck on the new red deck: /e/e/e/e/e/.
This is how her pecking sounds: /e/e/e/e/e/,
When she pecks on a speck on the hen house deck.
Ff
Franny the Fan
Franny the Fan spins oh, so fast,
Spreading fresh air with a regular blast.
When Franny the Fan goes round and round,
/f/f/f/f/f/ is her fast fan sound.
Gg
Gary
Gary is a gopher
Who gulps green grapes all day.
When he gulps and giggles,
/g/g/g/g/g/ is what he’ll say.
Hh
Harry the Hound Dog
Harry the Hound Dog
hurries around.
/h/h/h/h/h/ is his hurrying sound.
Ii
Pickles the Pig
Here sits Pickles the Pig.
Tickle Pickles, and she’ll get the giggles.
This is the sound of Pickles’ giggles:
/i/i/i/i/i/.
Jj
Jenny and Jackson
Jenny and Jackson like to have fun.
They play jacks, jump rope, and juggle in the sun.
Each time they jump, their feet hit the ground.
/j/j/j/j/j/ is their jumping rope sound.
Kk
Katie
Katie clicks her camera.
/k/k/k/k/k/, it goes.
The pictures come out crisp and clear.
So give a smile…/k/k/k/k/k/.
Katie is here!
Ll
Leon the Lion
Look! It’s Leon the Lion!
Leon loves to lap water from lakes.
This is the lapping sound Leon makes:
/l/l/l/l/l/
Mm
Muzzy the Monkey
For Muzzy the Monkey, bananas are yummy.
She munches so many, they fill up her tummy.
When she munches, she mumbles
/m/m/m/m/m/
Nn
Norman Newsome
Norman Newsome has a cold.
His nose is noisy all through the night.
He tries to sleep, but it just won’t do,
‘Cause this is what his nose will do:
/n/n/n/n/n/
Oo
Bob the Frog
Bob the Frog did not feel well at all.
He hopped to the doctor’s office.
"Say /o/, Mr. Frog. /o/o/o/o/o/."
"My head is hot and my throat hurts a lot."
"Say /o/, Mr. Frog. /o/o/o/o/o/."
Pp
Popcorn
"Popcorn! Popcorn!" Ping and Pong shouted.
"Let’s pop some in a pot, because we like it hot!"
/p/p/p/p/p/ was the sound it made.
Qq
Quincy
Quincy the Duck couldn’t quite quack.
He said, "/kw/kw/kw/kw/kw/,"
but he left off the ‘ack’!
Quincy kept trying, but all he could say was,
"/kw/kw/kw/kw/kw/!"
Rr
Rosie the Robot
Rosie the Robot just runs and runs: /r/r/r/r/r/.
Racing around to get her chores done: /r/r/r/r/r/.
Running here, running there: /r/r/r/r/r/,
Running almost everywhere: /r/r/r/r/r/
Ss
Sausages
Sue buys sausages on Saturday.
Sam cooks sausages on Sunday,
The sausages sizzle /s/s/s/s/s/ when hot.
Sam eats sausages, but Sue does not.
Tt
Tom Tuttle
Tom Tuttle’s timer ticks like this: /t/t/t/t/t/.
Tonight Tom Tuttle wants tomatoes on toast.
He sets his timer. Listen carefully: /t/t/t/t/t/.
What sound would the timer make if you set it?
/t/t/t/t/t/
Uu
Tubby the Tugboat
Tubby the Tugboat can huff and puff
and push and pull to move big stuff.
/u/u/u/u/u/
That’s the sound of Tubby the Tug.
He works all day from dawn till dusk.
/u/u/u/u/u/
Vv
Vinny the Vacuum
Vinny the Vacuum is cleaning again.
Before visitors visit, he always begins.
This is the sound of his very loud voice: /v/v/v/v/v/
As he vacuums and vacuums all over the place: /v/v/v/v/v/
Ww
Willie the Washer
Willie the Washer washed white clothes all week.
When he washed, he went: /w/w/w/w/w/.
Willie the Washer was tired; he sprang a leak.
He washed and he washed and he went: /w/w/w/w/w/.
Xx
Rex
Rex is called the Exiting X.
He runs to guard the door.
To get past Rex, make the sound of X:
/ks/ks/ks/ks/ks/.
Yy
Yolanda and Yoshiko
Yolanda and Yoshiko are yaks.
They don’t yell, they just yak: /y/y/y/y/y/.
Yakety-yak! Yakety- yak!
What is the sound of the curious yaks?
/y/y/y/y/y/
Zz
Zack
Zack’s jacket has a zipper.
Zack zips it up and it makes this sound:
/z/z/z/z/z/.
Zack zips it down and it makes this sound:
/z/z/z/z/z/.

This poem was found on the website http://www.pointpleasant.k12.nj.us/nellie/nellie/Kindergarten/alphabet_poems.htm.
Love it hope you do too.

EDRG 3321 chapter 3

EDRG 3321 Chapter 3 Blog

Understanding What We Read

As I was reading chapter 3 of the text book, I was trying to remember my reading background and how it got started. I do not care to read unless I have to and going back I remember being forced to read certain things in school. I was only allowed certain kind of books which I thought were boring and useless to me. As I have grown up I have made sure that I don’t do that to my daughter. From day one with her in my tummy I read to her every night and continued that as she was a young child. Until, now when she reads to me every night. She loves to read which I am very grateful for that. I believe that has to do with giving her an option to pick and choose what she likes. Also, I would do some of the strategies that are in the book with her as well. For example, we would do the sketch-to-sketch activity. After, the child reads a certain book they then draw a picture of what they interpreted of that book. Another, strategy is the cosmic strips which I had never heard of and love. You take a piece of paper and fold it into four frames and draw four consecutive scenes from the book. This is a good comprehension technique to see if your students are comprehending what they are reading and its fun for them.

Why we read? Why not? It expands the child’s vocabulary and the understanding of so many things in life. You can have a book on manners, being respectful to others and so on and that child will learn from that book and be able to apply it to the child’s life.

EDRG 3344 Blog3 Writing Process

EDRG 3344 Blog #3

Writing is a process that contains a process of five stages.
Pre-writing – Brainstorming, graphic organizers, maps, webs
Drafting – rough draft, outline
Revising – any additions or deletions, look to elaborate the sentences, add adjectives, or adverbs
Editing – check for conventions errors, punctuation, spelling
Publishing – put it out there, make a book

Here is my story I did in class.


My Dream Vacation

My dream vacation became a reality when I was able to take my whole family to Florida to visit Walt Disney World at no cost to them. That included my husband, daughter, parents, siblings and their family. A grand total of 15 adults and children would go on this vacation. What a trip this would be?
First, we all boarded the plane; however trying to get 15 guests to sit next to each other was a challenge for all us. Of course, you have this person who wants to sit next to this person and vice versa. Once we were all seated it was time for take off. Four of us were scared out of our minds to be on a plane. Every noise or movement that we heard or felt we would take the skin off of our neighbor’s arms. It was a good thing we had our family there to help us get through it all. We finally landed and went off to the resort.
Before we could head off to the parks we needed to check into the resort. Who thought this would take forever separating the rooms. We went threw the whole process again of who wanted to sleep in her room or in his room. My mother at this time said you are sleeping here and you are sleeping there. When mom speaks you listen. We all put are things down in our rooms and got settle so we could go to the parks.
We visited the Universal Studios, Safari Park, Epcot Center, and Magic Kingdom throughout our stay in Florida. We saw so many characters, rode many rides, and saw lots of shows. We even had to buy a whole new suitcase just for souvenirs to make it back home. The most memorable studio was Magic Kingdom. We had gone to one of Cinderella’s shows and my father was chosen to come on stage with her and sing and dance with her. My father is not for one to get in front of people and do something like that. This was priceless, my dad turned beat red. Not only did he turn red in actually participated and did want Cinderella ask him to do. This made the whole trip worth it.
Afterwards, we went to dinner one last time in Magic Kingdom. We were able to have dinner with all the characters at the park. We enjoyed the time we were able to spend with each other. Later, that night we went back to the resort and pack and had to go to the airport and come back home. We will always have the memories from Walt Disney World as a family vacation.

EDRG 3321 Blog #2 Chapter 2

EDRG 3321 TH Blog #2

Chapter 2 Culturally Responsive Classrooms

In chapter 2 of the book it talks about culture and what is culture. The books definition of culture is “ways of knowing believing, valuing, and thinking among a group of people.” The book then goes into the different kinds of culture. For example, deep culture which refers to the ways people thinks of the world. During class today Mrs. Pickett was talking about one of her friends where the mother still took her daughter lunch everyday. The culture did not eat left over’s so the mother brought lunch for her daughter because it was fresh and that was part of their culture. We as teachers need to make sure we have a classroom with different kinds of materials that will help the students make sure they are comfortable in the classroom. Have different kinds of books from all kinds of cultures to have other students learn about someone else’s culture background besides their own. You can also have different events to help the students learn about the surface culture. Surface culture is what the wear, eat, and what holidays they celebrate. You could do an all about me poster to find out more about that child’s background to help you with them in the classroom. You might find out something that you would not normally find out about. Then use can use it to help you about the way you can help that child. Teachers need to have an open mind and wiliness to change and work with the students to make the classrooms ready for them to learn.

EDRG 3344 Pre/Dur/Post Stategies

Blog #2 EDRG 3344 TH

What are some examples of Pre/During/Post strategies? How do these strategies help students?

Some example of Pre/Dur/Post strategies are if a teacher is going to read a book, the teacher could ask her students what do you think this book is about. What is on the cover of this book and what do you think will happen in the book? So this strategy helps the students predict on what might happen in the book or what it is about. Another Pre strategy is trying to see what prior knowledge the student might have about the book and what the book is about. During strategy you can have small groups reading or the whole group reading together. During you can ask them questions threw out the book. For example, you could ask what does this word mean? Or do you know what might happen next children? This strategy keeps them on their toes and they are paying attention. The teacher is making it interesting to them and engaging them into the book. Post strategies are asking the children to draw a picture of what the book was about. Or have them write their favorite part of the book. You could have them go to the library and find a book that relates to the book the teacher just read. Also, have a book box for all parts of Pre/Dur/Post. In class was the first time I heard of a book box and loved that idea. You could put 6 things from the book in the box but have one that does not belong and see if the children are paying attention. You are also assessing what they learned as well by doing different strategies with them.

Strategies help children learn how to engage into activities. So many children are different from each other and when you use a mixture of different strategies all your children from all kinds of learning abilities will be able to interact. Just like when you use different ingredients to make a cake. You have several different ingredients to make this awesome cake. You wouldn’t leave out the eggs, or the flour then the rest of the cake would taste gross. You have to make sure you have all the ingredients and all the students engage to have a successful outcome.

EDRG 3321 Children's Literature Books

EDRG 3321 Children Literature Books Blog #1

I went and Google Children’s Literature Books and several different websites came up. The websites would talk about the book and if the book had good reviews or not. One in particular website called http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/1st.html had some different aspects to it. First, it had suggested books for 1st grade and a bunch listed from A – Z. It was made available to you when you click on a book you could get the review along with other related material like books to use with it. On some of the books that you click on the title and it would even had activities to do with it. It also has the option of things to notice and talk about the book with the children. It is all laid out for you and gives you more than objective to do with that one book. One of the children’s literature authors that I happen to click on was The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forrest by Lynne Cherry. I was amazed on all the extra information that came out with it. It had 5 extra books that to the book, The Great Kapok Tree was talking about so you could use it with that book. Also, had activities to do with the book, where to purchase the book as well.

Another website I found was http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/child_lit/authors/. This website you could find an author on the list and everything you needed to know about them. It has the bio and the books that they wrote. This website might come useful later on in the class.

EDRG 3344 Blog 1 How do you learn?

EDRG 3344 Blog #1
How do I learn?

There are several ways you can learn. One of my ways to learning is repetition, going over the material over and over helps me to remember it. If I will write it and then read out loud, then study it as well it sees to sink into my brain just a little bit easier. However, that always doesn’t work for me. There are many times I will wait to the last minute and study because it is fresh in my memory and I will do better on test. Test is one of my weaknesses. I am not a great test taker. I will do fine on all the class work but when it comes to taking the test I do badly on it. I have tried several different things but nothing seems to help. Sometimes, I need someone to explain it to me if I don’t understand it to make it clearer for me. For example, math is a subject that I have a hard time on it. My husband who is a math geek can get the answer without even doing the problem, irritating to me. Anyway, he will help me by showing me and relating it to something most of the time. I just try real hard to find some kind of way to make me understand and learn the subject I am preparing for.

When I took the multiple intelligence tests it suggests that my strength is in musical and I am an intrapersonal. Musical I can understand when I study or any free time I like to have music in the background playing. The music calms me and I am not as stressed with studying for the material I need to know. I also didn’t realize that I do put things into rhyme especially for my daughter when she needs to know something for school. I often will sing a song and put what I need to know to it. This technique helps me often. However, never realized I did that until this survey.

As for motivation, I myself put high standards on myself and want to make sure I get everything out of the course that I can and do it with an awesome grade. I will sometimes tell myself, “If I can pulled out an A in this course I will go by a new purse” something to that effect. Some other motivation that my husband does is; he is always telling me you can do it, have faith in yourself, and don’t sweat the small stuff. Work on what you can change and not the things you can’t change. You could say he is my little cheerleader. My biggest motivation right now is to complete school and be able to teach the kids. I really want to finished and be able to start in a classroom. I have a few outstanding teachers and I want to be able to give back what I was taught.