![]() ![]() I felt empathy throughout the entire story that I still remember today. That is still one of my favorite books of all time! The message was inspiring and Lee had a way of describing events and details that kept my attention. Yes, it too had been assigned, but Harper Lee was a different kind of author. Each book contains a CD a nd a resource guide loaded with. I enjoyed that story so much that my sisters and I wanted our parents to buy us a boxcar so we could be as adventurous as the boxcar children.Īfter elementary school, I did not find reading pleasurable.I was usually forced to read because the reading was assigned by the teacher.until I read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school. Children will bring stories to life through dram a, music, art, language, and gross motor activities. I related to the story because, like the Boxcar children, there were four children in my family and I was the oldest ( and most responsible one:) just like Jessie. Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel (ages 4-8). Warner made this adventure seem possible. This read around the world China Unit includes a book list activities to do related to China, a recipe. I remember being absolutely amazed at the story. The first chapter book I ever read was Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. If I messed up when I read aloud, some of the words were not real anyway and no one would notice my flubs. ![]() Not only did I like the style of writing at the time, it taught me that words can be made up in stories. The Cat in the Hat was creative, full of rhyme, and carried rhythm as I read. It was a fairly simple activity but it took me quite a while to come up with the idea.Although it is probably not the first book I read (I'm too old to remember that), the one I remember reading by myself was The Cat in the Hat. They became interested with the idea of a mythical creature and so the post-reading activity went well: making a handprint dragon. I moved their attention to the idea of a Chinese dragon and dragon dances during Chinese festivals such as Chinese New Year. They said it was like a tongue twister and couldn’t understand how I could say it so fast. I could have read the story better, I felt like my storytelling voice didn’t really come out too well during that time but they enjoyed the story and were very keen on trying to pronounce Tikki Tikki Tembo’s whole name. Pre-reading went better than I expected and it was delightful to see so much participation. I was impressed because some children knew the meaning of their names and knew its origin, and these were year twos. Pre-reading activity was to ask the children whether or not they like their names, and why do they like their names. It did however, briefly mentioned the Mid-Autumn Festival and had a two page spread of a Chinese dragon dance, so I used that as a basis for the lesson. It took a lot of thinking and effort to squeeze up a lesson plan for Tikki Tikki Tembo because honestly, it was just a funny story with a simple moral, yet it didn’t explicitly say anything about Hong Kong or Chinese customs. ![]() I was initially going to use Pi-shu the panda because I knew it would be more informative and the children would most likely learn more about Hong Kong/China in general. No, it wasn’t really my original plan to tell the story of Tikki Tikki Tembo. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |