EDRG 3321 M&W Author/Presentations Day 3

Another great day of presentations. I have really enjoyed this project and the outcomes. The group today that did the spiders did a wonderful job. I loved the read aloud video they did and the facts about spiders book Spinning Spiders. This presentation was also great because it's a good way to cross teach. They started the lesson off with reading and ended in science. I also enjoyed their activity where we made spiders. It was very hands on and fun! I think kids would really enjoy this.

I also liked the Snow White presentation. I love to see where fairy tales come from and get the dark truth. :) I think this is a great way to teach to high school students and they would enjoy it. Can't wait to see the rest of their presentation! :)

My book choice for this week is The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. It's a retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears," But instead of being in a forest it's in the snow, the bears are snow bears, and Goldilocks is a young Inuit girl who is looking for her sled dogs when she comes across the snow bears home. The book is a fun picture book with a delightful story. It's a book I think kids would enjoy this time of year. Jan Brett also has many other books and a few Christmas once too. Check out her web site, it has all her books and even some fun Christmas activities you can do with the kids. http://www.janbrett.com/ This is a great site for teachers or parents!! Enjoy!

EDRG-3321 M&W Author/Presentations Day 2

The Presentations so far have been great!! Everyone is doing a wonderful job and I have really enjoyed them. The group that did the book The Empty Pot did a wonderful job. I really liked the book and the moral behind the story. I also liked their activity where they had us write in the empty pot. That was a great lesson and I think kids would love it!

The other group that went was my group and we did Pink and Say. Other than talk about how great ours was :) j/k I just want to say that I really learned a lot from this project and enjoyed working with my group!! It was fun and educational!

The book I picked for this week is P is for Pinata:A Mexican Alphabet. It's a culture letter book. The book goes though the alphabet giving you different examples of something from the Mexican culture. This book is a fun way to teach a different culture to your students and to teach them new words from a different culture. The author for this book is Tony Johnston. She has other culture books and many children's books. She has also been a 4th grade teacher for years. Go check out her web site to see more of her books at www.jacketflap.com and then search Tony Johnston. Hope y'all enjoy! :)

EDRG-3344 M&W Persuasive for MGP

For my persuasive I decided to do a flyer to persuade people to visit the Pearl Harbor Memorial and for them to learn more about that day. I think a flyer is a good way to get your students attention and to get them to find out more about Pearl Harbor. Here is part of what I did. Let me know what you think. :)

*Come visit the Pearl Harbor Memorial and learn more about the men and women who lost their life there and get a chance to talk to ones who survived. Come tour the grounds and listen to stories about that day Japan bomb Pearl Harbor by surprise on December 7, 1941. Get to see what is left of the Battleship USS Arizona and learn about the day that changed our Nation forever.

EDRG-3344 M&W Descriptive

For my descriptive I decided to do an acrostic poem. I thought this would be a fun way to put in details the events of Pearl Harbor. I plan to make a poster to go along with this. Tell me what you think! :)


Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japan on December 7, 1941.
Eighteen U.S. ships were hit, crippling the Untied States Fleet.
A date that will live in infamy.
Remember the 2,350 servicemen and 68 civilians who lost their life that day.
Lexington, Enterprise and Saratoga were U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers that escaped damage.

Hospitals become overwhelmed by the wounded, all nurses can do is give them morphine.
Arizona, the ship that took the hardest hit and suffered the most casualties.
Radar screens did pick up planes but was overlook because they were believed to be U.S. B-17s.
Both the Japanese and Americans were surprised by the success of the attack.
Oklahoma the ship also suffered many casualties after it was hit by torpedo’s capsizing the ship.
Roosevelt, FDR, was President and along with Britain declared war on Japan December 8, 1941.

EDRG 3321-M&W "Children's Author"

In light of the Thanksgiving Holiday I picked a book about Thanksgiving, The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing. This book has a creative spin on the Christmas classic 'Twas The Night Before Christmas. It shows how a family gets ready for the Thanksgiving holiday by greeting family members, making dinner and how they give thanks. This would be a great book to read to your students before they leave for Thanksgiving break. It's fun, has great pictures and can teach them to be thankful. :) Natasha Wing also has some other great books like The Night Before First Grade, The Night Before Halloween, and The Night Before Christmas. Go check out her site and see all her great books. http://natashawing.com/Author.html

M&W EDRG 3321-Genre Presentations Day 1/Author Profile

Today was our first day of Genre presentations and we had two great ones. The first group did the book Why The Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky. Their presentation was fun, I loved the play and the costumes. I was really interested in the book after they went. They did a good job in getting the students to interact with the fish and the activity. The second group did the book 10 Things I Can do to Help My World. I really liked their movie trailer, really had me interested in their book. They also had some great posters and good recycling ideas. All and all two great presentations, I really enjoyed watching them! :)





My book choice this week is a great picture book called Santa’s Stuck by Rhonda Gowler Greene. I am a sucker for Christmas stories and this one is a fun one to read. It's about how Santa eats too many treats and gets stuck in a chimney. It takes a lot of help from reindeer, cat, dogs and even a mouse with a toy truck to get Santa out. This would be a fun book to read to the kids when things get crazy close to Christmas break and I think they would love it, it's very funny. :) Rhonda Gowler Greene also has another Christmas book called The Stable Where Jesus Was Born, I haven't got to read this one yet but it looks good but not sure if you could rad it in the classroom. Go check out her site, shes got many more funny books for kids. http://rhondagowlergreene.com/index.htm

EDRG 3344 MGP- Expository

My expository for my MGP is going to be a power point in the form of a timeline. I figured this is the best way to show the events of that day. This way I can show pictures and you tube clips right from my power point. Here is a couple of the things I will put on the slides. You tube video of Roosevelt's speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE