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From: Toni Buzzeo <buzzeocyll>
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 07:55:56 -0500
Walter Mayes wrote:
I agree with Walter about kid-friendly books. Being a library media specialist in an elementary school, it's my JOB to find kid-friendly books and turn kids on to them. It's also important for me to remember that "kid-friendly" comes in many different packages, those that appeal to the Kindergartners and those that appeal to the surly Fifth Graders who come back from December holiday break with their hormones :>
What I personally love about SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY is the way that it works in a "kid-friendly" way for so many ages. Our littlest visitors
(Kindergartners and First Graders) will probably first encounter the book during a story sharing that my colleague Catherine will do with them. She'll talk about the Caldecott Medal and then read Jackie Briggs Martin's main text to them and help them to study Mary Azarian's artwork. In Second Grade, when students study weather, they'll encounter SNOWFLAKE again, and this time, perhaps for the first time, they will read Jackie Briggs Martin's sidebar text, learning more about Bentley and his lifelong study of snow. In Third Grade, no doubt, someone will undertake to study William Bentley during the first formal research project when each third grader learns note-taking, bibliography construction, and biographical essay writing by researching a famous person. In Fourth Grade, which takes a yearlong approach to the geographical regions of the United States, students might read SNOWFLAKE when they study famous New Englanders. And finally, in Fifth Grade, when weather is revisited in the curriculum and independent science projects are designed, I look forward to the day that someone sets out to photograph snowflakes, ala WB.
What I mean to say is that, as a librarian, my favorite "kid-friendly" books are the books that GROW with the kids and that kids will cherish year after year. SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY fills the bill!
Toni Buzzeo, MA, MLIS Longfellow School Library Media Center Portland, ME
Received on Sat 06 Feb 1999 06:55:56 AM CST
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 07:55:56 -0500
Walter Mayes wrote:
I agree with Walter about kid-friendly books. Being a library media specialist in an elementary school, it's my JOB to find kid-friendly books and turn kids on to them. It's also important for me to remember that "kid-friendly" comes in many different packages, those that appeal to the Kindergartners and those that appeal to the surly Fifth Graders who come back from December holiday break with their hormones :>
What I personally love about SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY is the way that it works in a "kid-friendly" way for so many ages. Our littlest visitors
(Kindergartners and First Graders) will probably first encounter the book during a story sharing that my colleague Catherine will do with them. She'll talk about the Caldecott Medal and then read Jackie Briggs Martin's main text to them and help them to study Mary Azarian's artwork. In Second Grade, when students study weather, they'll encounter SNOWFLAKE again, and this time, perhaps for the first time, they will read Jackie Briggs Martin's sidebar text, learning more about Bentley and his lifelong study of snow. In Third Grade, no doubt, someone will undertake to study William Bentley during the first formal research project when each third grader learns note-taking, bibliography construction, and biographical essay writing by researching a famous person. In Fourth Grade, which takes a yearlong approach to the geographical regions of the United States, students might read SNOWFLAKE when they study famous New Englanders. And finally, in Fifth Grade, when weather is revisited in the curriculum and independent science projects are designed, I look forward to the day that someone sets out to photograph snowflakes, ala WB.
What I mean to say is that, as a librarian, my favorite "kid-friendly" books are the books that GROW with the kids and that kids will cherish year after year. SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY fills the bill!
Toni Buzzeo, MA, MLIS Longfellow School Library Media Center Portland, ME
Received on Sat 06 Feb 1999 06:55:56 AM CST
