The following couple of books I have chosen out of my love for mystery, fantasy, and adventure. I feel it is is always important to expose young minds and imaginations to such a wonderful world of creative desire. I hope you will read these following books, not only with, and to, your child at home, but will also enjoy them for yourself!
1. The Abominable Snow Teacher by: Lisa Passen
The students of Mrs. Irma Birmbaum are in for a big surprise! The snow has caused the school to close for the day. While the students are playing and having fun, they see Mrs. Birmbaum coming and she is yelling out test questions. But something is wrong. Mrs. Birmbaum has turned into a hairy Abominable Snow Teacher! This book is a lot of fun. The illustrations are entertaining and enjoyable.
This book is a fun and entertaining book for young readers. I especially like this book because it gives a student’s point of view on their teacher outside school, maybe confronting beliefs, and point of views, of students reading the book. It is just a fun story of a fun snow day, having students encounter their teacher out of the regular setting they always see her in, and somehow, an abominable snow teacher!
I will use this book more so in the beginning of the year, to introduce myself as their new teacher for the year, and to simply show the students that teachers too are regular people, such as myself, and have lives to live out of school as well, and are not scary mean people! I will share different facts about myself over a three day period, and let the students get to know me better, to relax them for the school year to come. I want them to feel as comfortable as possible around me, so I provide a safe environment for them to ask questions, and take risks in!
2. The Book of Dragons by: Edith Nesbitt
This delightful book contains stories about dragons of all types ranging from one that flies out of an enchanted book to devour entire soccer teams to one being hunted by a pack of trained hippopotamus. The black and white illustrations lend themselves to the delightful fantasies. Personally, the book is as charming and as enjoyable now as it was when it was originally published.
I like this story because it gives the reader a great imagination booster that deals with fantasy tales that they can decided if they are real or not. It is a great leeway into the teen years, capturing fantasy for imaginative middle school students. The characters in the stories also vary in culture and ethnicity, so is a good example of a multicultural read, along side the fantasy.
I will use this book in a fantasy unit, either studying dragons, or will use it for the type of literature the book holds. I also feel that it is a great chapter book to introduce to open-minded, and adventurous pre-teens. We will read this book both as a class, and also for the students to read individually. After reading the book, I will implement a final assessment where students will be broken up into teams, and will create their own dragon using whatever materials they may find, and will share their final dragon with the class, and what their dragon can do. Students will also relate their group dragon to the dragon in the story, are they related, if so how?, etc.
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