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Written and illustrated by: Daniel Kirk
Published by Hyperion Books for Children in NY in 2001
ISBN: 0-7868-0305-3
Genres: Picture Book, Poetry, Song Book
Reading Level: Grade 2
Activity Level: Grades K, 2, and 4
Summary: This book is a collection of poems about everyday life. Some are about things children like, such as rollerblading; planes, trains, and automobiles; and skateboarding. Others are about the cars parents drive, polar bears and their skates, and long rides home from weekend vacations. Still others are classic songs like "I've Been Working on the Railroad!" There is also a CD with this book for sing-alongs.
Response: I like that this book is interactive from the beginning, since it has lots of songs and poems and comes with a CD. I also really like some of these creative poems/songs! Some of my favorite titles are: "Grandpa's Motorized Wheelchair," "My Old Man Drives a Minivan," "Mamma's Motorcycle," "Hippos on the Subway Train," and "Sammy's Bathtub Submarine." With titles such as those, how could you not want to pick up this book and read it to your class?
I found it interesting that the illustrations in this book seemed to make the words secondary in that the illustrations are really what capture the attention of readers much moreso than the words, simply because of their amazing detail and creative style. In the author/illustrator's note it says that he used oil and watercolor paints, pastels, charcoal, and colored pencils, as well as cut-paper and photo collage, and Sculpey clay! This illustrator really used his imagination on this book!
Teaching Connections: I can absolutely see this book being used in a Kindergarten classroom. A teacher could read one of the songs or poems to her students and then project the book, using a document scanner/projector, onto the board and finger-point read it again along with her class. Then, they could learn about sentence structure by discussing nouns, verbs, rhyming words, etc, and circling and underlining those words in the poem or song!
A second grade teacher could also play the CD for her class and get a set of these books and have her class finger-point read along with it.
I could also see this book being used in a fourth grade classroom. Some of the poems are too juvenile for fourth graders, but others are just cute and funny enough to be sufficient for their grade level, such as "Mamma's Motorcycle," "Skateboard Dream," and "My Old Man Drives a Minivan." The teacher could read these poems/songs as examples and/or have the children listen to them and then pick a topic in their lives that interests them such as rollerblading or traveling, and then have them write a rhyming poem about that.
What Students Learn: From this book and the activities students learn about rhyming words, nouns, verbs, and the concept of song. They also gain better reading and writing skills.
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Written and illustrated by: Daniel Kirk
Published by Hyperion Books for Children in NY in 2001
ISBN: 0-7868-0305-3
Genres: Picture Book, Poetry, Song Book
Reading Level: Grade 2
Activity Level: Grades K, 2, and 4
Summary: This book is a collection of poems about everyday life. Some are about things children like, such as rollerblading; planes, trains, and automobiles; and skateboarding. Others are about the cars parents drive, polar bears and their skates, and long rides home from weekend vacations. Still others are classic songs like "I've Been Working on the Railroad!" There is also a CD with this book for sing-alongs.
Response: I like that this book is interactive from the beginning, since it has lots of songs and poems and comes with a CD. I also really like some of these creative poems/songs! Some of my favorite titles are: "Grandpa's Motorized Wheelchair," "My Old Man Drives a Minivan," "Mamma's Motorcycle," "Hippos on the Subway Train," and "Sammy's Bathtub Submarine." With titles such as those, how could you not want to pick up this book and read it to your class?
I found it interesting that the illustrations in this book seemed to make the words secondary in that the illustrations are really what capture the attention of readers much moreso than the words, simply because of their amazing detail and creative style. In the author/illustrator's note it says that he used oil and watercolor paints, pastels, charcoal, and colored pencils, as well as cut-paper and photo collage, and Sculpey clay! This illustrator really used his imagination on this book!
Teaching Connections: I can absolutely see this book being used in a Kindergarten classroom. A teacher could read one of the songs or poems to her students and then project the book, using a document scanner/projector, onto the board and finger-point read it again along with her class. Then, they could learn about sentence structure by discussing nouns, verbs, rhyming words, etc, and circling and underlining those words in the poem or song!
A second grade teacher could also play the CD for her class and get a set of these books and have her class finger-point read along with it.
I could also see this book being used in a fourth grade classroom. Some of the poems are too juvenile for fourth graders, but others are just cute and funny enough to be sufficient for their grade level, such as "Mamma's Motorcycle," "Skateboard Dream," and "My Old Man Drives a Minivan." The teacher could read these poems/songs as examples and/or have the children listen to them and then pick a topic in their lives that interests them such as rollerblading or traveling, and then have them write a rhyming poem about that.
What Students Learn: From this book and the activities students learn about rhyming words, nouns, verbs, and the concept of song. They also gain better reading and writing skills.
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