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Koosje kever woont hier
Dit is Koosje. Hij lijkt op een meloen. Maar dat is hij niet! Hij is een kever. Een juni-kever. Hij wil nog steeds je vriendje zijn! Maar Koosje wil meer. Hij wil een gezin en een eigen huis. Dus Koosje gaat op pad. Lukt het hem om te vinden wat hij zoekt? Juf Elsie over Koosje Kever bijt niet: Dit boek is rijk geïllustreerd. Je hebt het idee een strip te lezen. Boven een tekening staat een korte krachtige zin. Daaronder een tekening waar ook spreekballonnen in staan.
Meaningful Test Prep Tips for Students
As you inch closer to state testing, do you ever feel like you’ve wasted the last few months on routine test prep instead of meaningful learning with your students? It’s not a good feeling at all. Feelings aside, it also can unintentionally send students the message that their comprehensive learning is less important than their test scores. While the data from standardized testing can be a useful tool, we ultimately want students to become lifelong learners.
The most magnificent thing by Ashley Spires
The most magnificent thing By Ashley Spires We are moving towards making some fun changes in our school library. As part of the Makerspace movement we are hoping to have Makerpsace Mondays where children are offered the chance to be creative. We will have Lego challenges, chances to create stop-start animations, create artistic items out of old books and heaps of other activities, many science based. One of the main ideas of the Makerpsace movement is the idea of creating something new.
30 Books About Mistakes And Learning From Own Mistakes
Mistakes Making mistakes and learning from them is an important part of every person’s life. Most of us understand this fact about life very well, but teaching this concept to adolescents and, especially, kids can be somewhat of a complex thing to do. Mainly because kids nowadays grow up in a society that normalizes “perfection”; from school grades to practical skills, perfection seems to be the demand of every educational institution.
7 graphic novels every kid should be reading
Have you heard the expression that a picture is worth a thousand words? Jump into illustrated tales of magic, mystery and adventure. There is a graphic novel for every mood. Burt the Beetle Doesn’t Bite By Ashley Spires Best for: 8 and under Meet Burt, the ten-lined June beetle. He’s convinced he’s a superhero. The only problem is, Burt doesn’t have superpowers. Unless flying around porch lights and wiggling your legs counts?
Time-Tested Tips for Reading with Your Kids
The views expressed in this post are those of a Spoke contributor and do not necessarily represent the views of Red Tricycle. Photo: The Goddard School Reading with your children and sharing a story is very powerful. This experience strengthens your bond with them, builds vocabulary and language skills, supports brain development, teaches life skills through conversations about the characters in the stories and so much more.
New Picture Books
1 2 3 4 5 0 ratings rated! rated! Created by 49th Teachers Lose yourself in the magic of story with a selection of new picture books, perfect for sharing at home or in your virtual classroom or library. Showing 1-8 of 12 books Sort by: 1 2 3 4 5 0 ratings rated! rated! Burt the Beetle Doesn't Bite! illustrated by Ashley Spires Ashley Spires brings her signature deadpan humor to this hilarious story about one bug's quest for greatness (with some cool insect facts mixed in!).
8 Picture Books to Inspire Kids to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
written by Kim Howard, Ph.D., author, teacher, and parent Picture Books to Inspire Kids to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Use this unique list of character-driven, child-centered picture books to help inspire your kids to find new ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle in your own home! Don’t Throw That Away!: A Lift-the-Flap Book about Recycling and Reusing by Lara Bergen, illustrated by Betsy Snyder In Don’t Throw That Away!, a little superhero encourages kids to take a second look at the things...
LAXMI'S MOOCH | Kirkus Reviews
Laxmi, an Indian American elementary school student, has a mooch. A mooch, Laxmi explains, is a sprinkling of hairs on her upper lip; it’s also the Hindi word for mustache. Laxmi is unaware of her mooch until her friends Zoe and Noah point it out during recess. At first, Laxmi is mortified—especially when she realizes she doesn’t have fine, dark hairs just on her top lip but all over her whole body.
THE WORLD NEEDS WHO YOU WERE MADE TO BE
Making things is difficult work. Readers will recognize the stages of this young heroine’s experience as she struggles to realize her vision. First comes anticipation. The artist/engineer is spotted jauntily pulling a wagonload of junkyard treasures. Accompanied by her trusty canine companion, she begins drawing plans and building an assemblage. The narration has a breezy tone: “[S]he makes things all the time.
DON'T HUG DOUG | Kirkus Reviews
by Ashley Spires ; illustrated by Ashley Spires ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2014 Making things is difficult work. Readers will recognize the stages of this young heroine’s experience as she struggles to realize her vision. First comes anticipation. The artist/engineer is spotted jauntily pulling a wagonload of junkyard treasures. Accompanied by her trusty canine companion, she begins drawing plans and building an assemblage. The narration has a breezy tone: “[S]he makes things all the time.
NICE TRY CHARLIE!
A mysterious love letter brightens the lives of three forest animals. Appealing mixed-media illustrations made of ink, gouache, brush marker, and colored pencil combine with a timely message that one kind act can start a chain reaction of kindness. When Hedgehog, Bunny, and Squirrel stumble in turn upon a formally composed love letter, each finds their life improved: Squirrel is less anxious, Bunny spreads goodwill through helpfulness, and Hedgehog is unusually cheerful.
IF I COULDN'T BE ANNE
A mysterious love letter brightens the lives of three forest animals. Appealing mixed-media illustrations made of ink, gouache, brush marker, and colored pencil combine with a timely message that one kind act can start a chain reaction of kindness. When Hedgehog, Bunny, and Squirrel stumble in turn upon a formally composed love letter, each finds their life improved: Squirrel is less anxious, Bunny spreads goodwill through helpfulness, and Hedgehog is unusually cheerful.
STEAM Gift Ideas for Curious Kids
STEAM Gift Ideas for Curious Kids Holy Child Academy gives us their picks for what should be on the holiday shopping list of parents who want to give their children things to explore and develop their STEAM thinking. STEAM is more than an acronym for a grouping five disciplines (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics). It is a way of exploring the world.
Fitting In, Standing Out and Self-Acceptance
1 2 3 4 5 0 ratings rated! rated! Created by 49thShelf Kids' books about finding a place in the world. Showing 1-8 of 14 books Sort by: 1 2 3 4 5 0 ratings rated! rated! Thing Lou Couldn't Do, The illustrated by Ashley Spires “Lou and her friends are BRAVE adventurers. They run FASTER than airplanes. They build MIGHTY fortresses.
Girls in STEM | The 49th Shelf
Recommended Reading List Download list Please login or register to use this feature. By 49thShelf 1 2 3 4 5 0 ratings rated! rated! These excellent books are about girls who are making things—burgeoning engineers and imaginators. Boys and girls alike can enjoy these stories, and have their notions challenged about what an engineer looks like.
10 Genius Picture Books for Genius Hour Kids
By Gallit Zvi and Denise Krebs We love using picture books in our classrooms! And we don’t think they are only for primary classrooms. In fact we have both (Denise, left; Gallit, right) spent the majority of our teaching careers teaching the middle school grades, and we have always used picture books as part of our teaching. We even used picture books regularly when we taught at the University level.
STEM Books to Inspire Young Readers
Our Children's Librarian columnist, Julie Booker, brings us a new view from the stacks every month. ***** These STEM books will inspire young readers to take their curiosity to the next level. Secret Coders, by Gene Luen Yang and Canadian illustrator, Mike Holmes, is a unique graphic novel. Hopper doesn’t fit in at her new school until she befriends Eni who teaches her (and the reader) how to read binary code using coins and a piece of chalk.
GO TO SLEEP, LITTLE CREEP
A bedtime book for all the nocturnal ghouls, ghosts, and goblins. Structured identically to the many twee books about bedtime for human children, this is designed to do the same job: get little ones to sleep. Just as human children want one more cuddle, snack, and book, so too do these monsters’ offspring. Godzilla’s diapered child wants to keep stomping block cities, and it’s a struggle to get the bigfoot child’s toes scrubbed, face brushed, and pajamas on.
Windsor Public Library's summer reading list | CBC News
Statistics show student performances in school tend to suffer after lengthy bouts of not reading. So, to avoid what they call the "summer slide," officials from the Windsor Public Library encourage parents to read with and to their children. Jodie Doe shows off some of her favourite children's books. (Meg Roberts/ CBC News) With children out of school for the summer, educators say it's important to keep those young eyes reading.
The Thing Lou Couldn't Do
This delightful picture book from Ashley Spires, bestselling author of The Most Magnificent Thing, perfectly depicts what children go through when confronted with something difficult. With humor and endearing artwork, Spires sensitively portrays Lou procrastinating, making excuses, imagining alternatives and denying she cares. Ultimately, Lou faces her fear, and although she fails, the effort empowers her, encouraging a growth mindset.
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