The Very Quiet Cricket

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urn:oclc:872610261 Scandate 20111123031219 Scanner scribe12.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Source The full color photographs combined with easy to grasp information should make this a good nonfiction extension. Clutter-Free Classroom is the place where elementary teachers get the time-saving tips, ideas and resources they need to make teaching easier and more enjoyable. Comments/observations: This books reading level is kindergarten through third grade. I also found that the theme of this book is confidence and being yourself. My emotional readers response to this book was I liked the book and its illustrations and I could see myself putting this book in my own classroom library.

Free Teacher's Guides: A listing of all our teacher's guides. Picture Books, Nonfiction and Fiction. We also talked about what it means to be quiet, since it’s a key word in the book. We practiced what it sounds like to be LOUD by shouting and quiet by whispering. In my opinion, it’s always a good thing to practice being quiet. 🙂 Place the above circles on a large wall or bulletin board. Let children choose lengths of colored yarn or ribbon and connect any insects where they can state the reasons for similarity: habitat, habits, color, shape, noise, food, etc.The word use is interesting and dramatic and Carle’s inclusion of real sound in a book that has been discussing sound throughout the book expands our concept of what a picture book can and should be. Eric Carle has said that each of his "very" books has a theme and that this one is about love and the search for it. Devise ways of showing the information gained in the investigation such as Venn diagrams, graphs and charts.

A ladybug is unwilling to share the aphids on a leaf and so flies off to challenge bigger and bigger animals to a fight.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-02-23 19:11:53 Boxid IA108816 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor Have an insect sound contest where students use instruments, found materials, body parts and voices to imitate insect sounds. Then we used glitter glue to trace the antennas and legs. I read somewhere that it is good for preschoolers to know how to use glitter glue, so we tried that out! Since you have to use fine motor skills of squeezing and following a line at the same time, I helped him out. Maybe down the road he’ll be able to do this by himself.

Typical of Carle’s style, the language is simple, with rhythm, repetition, and alliteration to delight young listeners. Painted collage illustrations are lavish and expressive.”– School Library Journal Typical of Carle's style, the language is simple, with rhythm, repetition, and alliteration to delight young listeners. Painted collage illustrations are lavish and expressive."-- School Library Journal Print these story sequence cards from Making Learning Fun and watch as your child recreates the storyPractising the understanding of the storybook by a quiz with multiple-choice answers. Level:intermediate Eric Carle’s classic story of finding your “voice” is newly joining the premier reader line, Step into Reading! The fun story has a few repeating words that will have your children reading along with you in no time. Nature/Science

This is probably the best known of Carle’s work. In it a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Read more about this book. A grandfather starts releasing bees so that he and his granddaughter can follow them to the bee tree. They are soon joined by a whole line of followers. Look at some of the related books below to see some of the techniques and media illustrators use to create insects. Use some of them to create your own pictures. Carle's illustrations, as usual, are bright and beautiful and the story is very simple to read. It's no wonder Eric Carle's books are so cherished by young children. This is a wonderful source book for information about Eric Carle and his work. Carle includes a delightful autobiography amply illustrated with photographs and sketches, but there is much more in the book. An editor relates her experiences with Carle. There's a section about the way he creates his work and writings by Carle and some of his colleagues. Best of all, the book is a compendium of his artwork.

How I could use this book in a classroom: I would use this book for students to tke time to reflect on what they have learned throughout the year in my classroom. After reading this book I would ask them something that they can do now that they could not do at the beginning of the year or when they were younger. I think I could also use this book to talk about what it means to be quiet an loud. After that we could talk about times when we need to be quiet and then practice classroom and school etiquette. This post was originally a guest post by Jen from Large Family Frugal Living. It has since been updated to add new resources and remove broken links.