New Author Study Nancy Carlson

About Nancy Carlson's Books 

Nancy believes that life should be fun for everyone, but especially for children. This optimistic message permeates her picture books and provides a positive counterpoint to much of what children are influenced by in today's society. Her characters aren't always perfect. They often have fears, anxieties, and disabilities. Through her books, kids learn to cope with different challenges. They can learn that they don't have to be perfect to be a good person. Her characters also convey positive messages without being "preachy". They gently remind children what is right.

Reading Response: Write and draw something special about you! What do you like best about you?

We are making a story called How To Win Many Friends

Reading Response: If we had Show In Tell in KC what important item would you bring in? A few children really want to have a Show In Tell Day ! 

Eric Carle

We started learning about Eric Carle!! We will be reading books by Eric Carle and learning about some of the creatures he writes about. At the beginning of the week, we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and read some nonfiction books about butterflies. We have been talking at large group about the difference between fiction and nonfiction.

We noticed that nonfiction books have many photographs.

We labeled the parts of a butterfly.

We created a Circle Map about facts and Interesting things we are learning about butterflies. 

Learning About Rosemary

We wrote a list of things we learned about Rosemary Wells! We loved reading her stories!!!

Problem Solving Posters

Working in small groups we selected a favorite Rosemary Wells book. We sat in our small groups and retold the events that happened in the story using the pictures. Some groups has students who read the words. During our discussion we focused on the Problems and Solutions.



Talking and Reading in Groups

Writing and Drawing about the Problem and Solution

Our Beautiful Finished Work

Sharing Our Work

Rosemary Wells Problems and Solutions

We have had lots of discussion on how we notice her main characters are animals but act like people. Her stories often have problems and solutions. We have been making many text to self connections and text to text connections. This week we focused on reading the books connected to Timothy and the students from Mrs. Jenkins class. We love reading books starring Yoko. Below are some of our problem and solutions from the story Yoko's World of Kindness, this is a chapter books that focuses each chapter on a different problems in the classroom.

Rosemary Wells books

This a chart we made describing how the main character was feeling during the story!

We added the words to our retelling chart

We talked about what the word Fantasy means. We reread Hazel's Amazing Mother and recorded things that could happen and things that could not happen.

Wow words this week!