I am reading a book with my daughter called The Janitor's Boy by Andrew Clements. In the story, the main character is really embarrassed that his father is the school janitor. He sets out to "get back" at his father. For some reason, he thinks it's his father's fault that the kids are picking on him. As a parent, I feel sorry for the dad, and I think what the son is doing is wrong.
Making judgments is something we can't help but do when we read. We think about the story and think about what we would do in that same situation. What are you reading? What kinds of decisions are the characters making? Are they good ones? Why do you think so?
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THE GREAT GRACIE CHASE STOP THAT DOG!
ReplyDeleteBY: CYNTHIA RYLANT AND MARK TEAGUE
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE THE CHARACTER? WHY?
I WOULD TELL GRACIE THAT SHE SHOULD NOT GO OUT ON THE STREET SHE MIGHT GET RUN OVER AND EVERYONE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HER RUNNING AWAY. SOMEONE COULD HAVE TAKEN HER. ALL SHE WANTED WAS PEACE AND QUITE.
SAMANTHA RICHARDSON
KISS THE COW
ReplyDeletePHYLLIS ROOT ILLUSTARATED BY WILL HILLENBRAND
What advice would you give the character? Why?
I think that the advice that I will give Annalisa is that when you want to see what it feel's like to kiss a cow is don't do it because the cow mite have a flie or the cows lips mite be slobery. Because I would not like to kiss a cow because that is really gross and I mite get sick from the cow.
ARTHUR'S TEACHER TROUBLE
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WHAT LESSON DOES ONE OR MORE OF THE CHARACTERS LEARN THAT WILL HELP IMPROVE THEIR LIVES?
ARTHUR LEARNS THAT WHEN YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING GOOD YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD FOR IT. WHEN ARTHUR STUDIED VERY HARD HE WAS CHOOSEN TO BE IN THE SPELLATHON AND THEN WHEN HE STUDIED EVEN HARDER HE WON IT.
Samantha Richardson
ReplyDeleteThe Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Does this book remind you of another book? How?
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything reminds me of The Berenstein Bears and The Auto Graveyard. I think they are alike because they are both really, really scary. One book had a scary pumpkin head chasing the Little Old Lady. The other book was about ghosts in a junkyard.
Awake and away . This book tells you how to be healthly, eat fruit and drink Milk for dinner. Tells you how to be safe like dont cross the street when a car in coming. The characters are Don, Jane, Julie, Mommy and Daddy.
ReplyDeleteWinnie's First Riding Day by A.z.Davidson.
ReplyDeleteThe characters are Winnie,Applelou,Tang,Trickie,Ginger and Haylee.
Winnie was a horse who was afraid that nobody would pick her on riding day. She thought everyone was better than her. On riding she saw little standing in the corner that was very shy.
Winnie went over to her and nodded her head to the little girl and the little said I thought no one would pick me and she and Winnie rode off together.
I read a book called Hearts Club and it's about eight girls listening to there hearts and Taylor had a bake sale with them and she was resposible for keeping the money and she was riding her bike and this puppy was lost so she listened to her heart and went after the puppy and droped the money then the animal shelter payed her for saving the puppy and now Taylor and her friends can buy friendship necklace's for everyone.
ReplyDeleteWaiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert In the garden there are caterpillar eggs attached to leaves by butterfly glue. The caterpillars hatch and crawl out and eat leaves. They make a cocoon in a safe place. the cocoon case gets torn. and a butterfly pops out and looks for flowers with nectar. The people watch the butterflies land on their feet and eat. They eat the sweet flowers. Then they fly back home and lay more eggs.
ReplyDeleteThe Berenstain Bears and the Almost perfect Crime
ReplyDeleteBy: STan and Jan Berenstain
What gift would you like to give the main character?
i would like to give the main character a trophy. Ferdy was the one who discovered that the announcement from General George Grizzington was a fake. Sister and Brother helped in discovering this as well but it was ferdys good eye that noticed that the last three letters were written with another pen when the orginial was written with the quill pen. They worked together as a team to find out who has forged announcement it was fritz the forger and ralph ripoff.
Noisy Nora by:rosemary wells
ReplyDeleteNoisy Nora is a mouse that when she gets mad she makes noise. One time she got sooo mad she ran away.I guessshe left because her sister called her dumb.Why do they call ther mom mum?
The Recess Queen by:Alexis o'Neill
ReplyDeleteMean Jean is the recess queen and a new girl named Katie Sue and she keeps singing a song to her and she wanted Jeanto play with her and Jean got scared and siad she was never going to be mean again.
im reading a book called Bad Cat by Tracey-Lee Mcguinness-Kelly.this book is about a cat that does stuff and people think he was beaing bad.then they yell at him.at the end they see what he did and they be nice and say comeback.your suppose to learn that be helpful with each other is beaing nice and good.
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