My radiant padlet by Betty https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27 Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2016-09-20 18:15:36 UTC 2023-03-23 21:02:25 UTC hello@padlet.com My Brave Year of Firsts By: Jamie Lee Curtis bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/125196524 This book is all about first for a little girl in first grade. From going to school, to jumping off a cliff into a lake. She learned that some make her cry, and some make her happy as long as she tries the firsts aren’t so scary. This book I felt would be very good to read to your class on the first day of school, because it shows kids that yes firsts can be scary, but all you have to do is be strong, and try your hardest. I would say teachers could even use this book for rhyme scheme. I would tell readers to embrace the pictures, because there silly and very colorful. As a reader you can also reflect on how you felt during those firsts as well. That would be a good prompt to have students write about is how they felt during those firsts too.

]]> 2016-09-20 18:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/125196524 Last Stop On Market Street By: Matt de la Pena bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/125204605 In this story, the child CJ is very relatable to me. I was always poor so I also always asked my parents why I couldn’t have the cool new gadgets that every other kid had. When I was young around this child’s age I too had to go to a food pantry so my family could survive. CJ learned that there is beauty even in the darkest of times. It took me a little while to learn that, but when  did I stopped complaining about why I didn’t have a lot of toys or why we had to go to the food pantry, because I learned to be thankful for what I did have.  Near the end I realized that CJ and his nana were serving people at the soup kitchen. This made me think of when I became a youth member at my church I would volunteer, because I always told myself if I ever got on my feet I would always help those in need.

]]> 2016-09-20 18:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/125204605 The Three Billy Goats Gruff By: Marcia Brown bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/125210386 http://vocaroo.com/i/s1M11RtdNgV2]]> 2016-09-20 18:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/125210386 My Dads By: Kelly Bennett and Illustrated by Paul Meisel bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/131972143 “Dad and Pa are as different as can be, except in one important way they both love me” I believe that this quote is important to the theme of the story that you may have two dads. One by birth and the other by marriage, but they are still both your dad’s.  This also shows that the girl telling the story realizes that they may be different, but love is the most important concept. This also shows in the story that your family maybe unusual, but as long as they take care of you and love you that’s all anybody’s family is based off of. It also shows that difference can be a good thing in a family. The positive side of having two dads is that they both love the child. Turned a bad experience into a positive one.

]]> 2016-10-20 03:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/131972143 Thunder cake By: Patricia Polacco bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/131973513 Dear Professor,

 The book Thunder Cake by: Patricia Polacco, I thought of a lot of things. The first thing I thought of was how I am scared of thunder, and it wasn’t until Babushka said “Brave people shouldn’t be afraid of sound” that I realized thunder is just a sound. I also predicted in the beginning that the grandmother was making this cake so that it would distract the girl from being scared of the thunder noises. I think this would be cool to do in a class setting one day when you’re learning about measurements, and complete the thunder cake in a science experiment. This can also help those students who are terrified of thunder at school. I also thought the pictures were very nice to look at and see how there is a lot of detail in them to show texture especially the rain picture.

                                                                           Sincerely,
Betty Walton

]]> 2016-10-20 04:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/131973513 White Water By Michael Bandy and Eric Stein, Illustratod by: Shadra Strickland bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/131974769 This book was so good at depicting how the African Americans were really treated. When the boy in this book finally got to taste the white water, that’s when his eyes were opened to the new world. I think this would be a good book to show children that even though things were sometimes similar they were separated from the whites. I even found out some information about African Americans in this book that I never even knew where to be true. To me this book should be read starting at 2nd grade in February to teach children about black history month, and you could involve the students in a discussion of why do you think the water tasted the same but had different signs? How would that make you feel? They could write all of this in their journal, or say what would you do in this situation?

]]> 2016-10-20 04:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/131974769 Brown Girl Dreaming By: Jacqueline Woodson bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132248582 This is a book about a young African american girl, and how her life was both living in the south and living in the north. This book shows her struggle as the youngest and living in everyone's shadows. This opened my eyes to see that even when after laws were passed, African Americans still were treated with disrespect, and treated like they were less than. I felt that the quality of the book was outstanding, very easy to follow along. the way the author writes is very short, but flows like any other chapter book. I would recommend not using this in literature circles, but rather using it as a read aloud for 4th to 5th grade. That way the teacher can help the student with figuring out the flow of the book if they get stuck. I also felt that this could show students different ways of writing types.]]> 2016-10-21 00:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132248582 Shortcut By: David Macaulay bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132249620 The book shortcut was very action themed. I believe that the way the author wrote made the tension of the story come to life. When the author would stop one story to begin another it makes the reader want to continue reading becasue they want to figure out how the all the stories connect to one another. Th fast pace of the words in the story make things very action based such as the words suddenly, and quickly and many more. This shows that the characters in the book were in a rush to get to the places they needed to get. ]]> 2016-10-21 00:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132249620 The One and Only Ivan By Katherine Applegate bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132250594 " She's here, Stella," I whisper. "Ruby's safe. Just like I promised" I love this quote, becasue not only does it show the true colors of Ivan, but it shows how much a promise can effect a life. Ivan was still loyal to a friend that had passed away. When we promise things to people often times we mean forever when we say I promise. I can connect to this, becasue when I say I promise, I say and Betty never breaks promises. This quote also showed the climax of the whole book. This is the part where every reader cries, becasue they are finally safe at last.]]> 2016-10-21 01:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132250594 Miss Mary is Scary By: Dan Gutman Illustrations by Jim Paillot bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132366638 This book is about students who get a new student teacher in their class, and they think she is a vampire. I would may have this as a fun read, I don't believe in helps enhance the readers comprehension level. This might be for a free read one day. I wouldn't use this in a literature circle, becasue I believe that you could't expand on the meaning of this book. to fellow readers this book would be fun to read Halloween, and maybe tell spooky stories. This book is very funny, and outrageous. it makes the reader use their imagination. I would let only 1st grade comprehension level readers read this book, becasue beyond that its a non challenging book. The one thing that bothered me was that the author never truly stuck with the theme of if the student teacher is a vampire. My question of is she or is she not one never really got answered, which really bothered me. I think out of the whole book it was only mentioned in two sentences.]]> 2016-10-21 14:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132366638 Swimming Upstream By: Kristine O'connel Goerge Illustrated by: Debbie Tilley bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132369109 This was a book about middle school poems. the book starts out about a student worrying about the first day of middle school. Then the student goes to all of their classes. The book starts from the beginning of the year to the end. The student struggles with a lot of worrying, adapting to new surroundings, and developing friendships. The struggles that can come with going into middle school. The book had good parts of middle school, and the bad such as snobs, and gossiping people. I think it would be good to read this weather you are a parent or a teacher right before you have students go into middle school. Show them that it will be scary, but fun. If I were a fithg grade teacher I would read this the last day of school. If I was a 6th grade teacher I would read it the first day of classes. To the reader have fun with it. Have your own imagination of what it is like to be in middle school. Maybe have your own students create a poem on what they think middle school will be like.]]> 2016-10-21 15:06:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132369109 The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet By: Eleanor Cameron bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132371785 This book is very intersting. Its about a boy who finds in anewspaper an add that advertises making a space ship. If the boy can complete the task he can go on an adventure with Mr. Bass. The boys win the contest and the man sends them to the planet Basidium, to go discover the people that live there. The Man believes those are his people, but can't go on the trip, becasue only young children are allowed. So the boys take off on an adventure filled with strange people. The boys have to meet a time requirement in order to make it back to earth in enough time. While they are there they meet a king, and help solve the problem with the sickness on the planet.  When the boys return to earth, they discover that Mr. Bass is gone, and has left them in his will of how to take care of things. That was Mr. Bass whole purpose of putting his add in the newspaper.]]> 2016-10-21 15:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/132371785 Rosa By Nikki Giovanni and Illustrated by Bryan Collier bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138797801 The quote that i chose was " The integrity, the dignity, the quiet strength of Rosa Parks turned her no into a yes for change". This was Rosa Parks biography, and I felt like this quote was defining for our country. This quote was a big saying after the supreme court ruled that separate but equal was now illegal in this country. It all started with Rosa saying no to the bus driver that she would not get up from her seat, when she had a right to be sitting there in the first place. This went down in history for she was arrested,and that is when the people called Martin Luther King jr to help speak for them while Rosa was in jail. The main part that had an impact on America in this quote was one simple word, No. Had Rosa not said those words which caused Martin to try harder for the people we may still be segregated today. ]]> 2016-11-18 18:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138797801 Paperboy By Vince Vawter bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138800753 The short write that I will do for this is How I might use what I learned. I think as a future teacher I have come to realized that classes are inclusive. I will have students who may have a stutter and because of that they may have a hard time reading like Victor. I learned from Mr. Spiro that patience is the key to helping students with different disabilities. Often times when you hurry some one whether they are disabled or not it makes them have more anxiety and therefore may cause the disability to become more enhanced. I think also what I learned was giving children a job when they do have a disability helps them realize that they do have a place in society as well. Mr Spiro wouldn't say the word while ictor was trying to say the word to just rush him along, which I feel we do more often. i think patience will help me as a future teacher with students.]]> 2016-11-18 18:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138800753 The Crossover By Kwame Alexander bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138804948 This book was a boy named Josh who had a brother named Jordan both of them played basketball together at the same school. One day when they are going through their dads belongings and come across that he too used to be a basketball player until he got injured and refused a surgery. When readers read this book they need to be ready for the amazing imagery that the author has based off of descriptive words. The writing because of the diction is very fast paced. The book overall is very inspiring. It teaches readers to not give up on their dreams no matter how many struggles they have in life. I wouldn't use this as a literature circle, but maybe read it aloud to the class when our genre is poetry. i think that students of any gender would enjoy this, because it talks to all aspects of life not just basketball.]]> 2016-11-18 18:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138804948 The Skirt By: Gary Soto bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138833592 Here is my Blog post about this book. We have all lost something really special to us. Whether we were a child or an adult. What if I told you the one thing you lost was something that was passed down from generations and you needed to find it by the next day. Talk about a lot of anxiety. That's how this little girl feels when she loses her great grandmothers skirt for the traditional Mexican dance. To learn more about the dance you can watch this video,and to know more about the book you can go tot his website for fun activities to do with your own children or with students.
Activities: http://rochec.edu.glogster.com/the-skirt/
Dance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiwnK2Egivk Skip top 1:15 to see dancing

]]> 2016-11-18 20:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138833592 Berry's Best Buddy By: Renee French bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138836283 This book was very well organized for first time readers. This was a graphic novel that was very smooth in transition to read through. This was about two friends one of them a bear, and the other a bird. The bear distracts the bird while the ants redecorate the birds house. Through out the whole novel the bird is complaining that he doesn't like anything that the bear is doing. When they get to his new house The bird is so excited, and surprised that his friend did that for him. i think that ages 5-8 would enjoy this book, because there is humor, and the author did very well at depicting the attitude of the bird. In the younger grades I would use this book to maybe start off the genre of graphic novels.]]> 2016-11-18 20:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138836283 Oceans By Elizabeth Moore bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138838822 http://vocaroo.com/i/s0HRRw2rtR86 ]]> 2016-11-18 21:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138838822 Because of Winn-Dixie By:Kate Dicamillo bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138840201 I absolutely loved this book. This book was a fast past, because it was so interesting. We have all been to those times in our life when we had to make friends. I related to Opal a lot because I really can only find friends that are older then me. There was a moment in the book were the suspense was killing me on if She would be able to find Winn-Dixie while the storm was raging on. I felt the way the other crafted this book was excellent. The only thing that I had a hard time with is why does she call her dad the preacher through out the majority of the book? Sometimes she would call him daddy, but most time it was the preacher she referred to him as. This book I would think would be great to have students do in the literature circle, because the job the connector I feel students would be able to connect to at least one part of this story.

]]> 2016-11-18 21:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138840201 Number the stars By: Lois Lowry bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138841649 this book is about a little Jewish girl that has to hide from the Nazis with her friends family. I love the suspense of the way that this book flows. One minute you are up out of your seat yelling at the characters, the next you are reading a normal book. I think it would be interesting if we put ourselves in her shoes. What would we feel like if we had to act like we were someone else daughter. I know that for me it would be hard, because I know who I belong to. The one thing I noticed in this book is that the names of the chapters are sentences in the book. i have never seen that before. Most authors will just put in the main concept of that chapter. Often times the author made it feel like you were there with Ellen being questioned by the soldiers. The little girl Kristie was the one that I thought through out the whole book was going to be the one that gave the secret away which surprised me she didn't.]]> 2016-11-18 21:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/138841649 The Three Pigs By: David Wiesner bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141013052 This book is not your normal three little pig story. the author took it and changed the middle of it. He decided to have the pigs bring the book to life, and make it sound like they were running around on the pages of the book. I know in order to read this to my students I would need to read this to 3rd and above. The content of the book maybe to hard for little ones to understand. The way the book flows makes me see that younger students wouldn't be able to read along and comprehend what was happening. The only thing that I found difficult was how abrupt the ending was. it was all action based and then bam it was the end. I would maybe have my students come up with a different ending.]]> 2016-12-01 05:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141013052 Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are you waking up? By Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson Illustrated by Laura J. Bryant bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141013601 I know for me I hate to wake up in the morning. So I could relate to this poem of how the cat was being slow getting ready for school. This picture made me think of the cat because I know that is probably the cute face it gave its mother when she was trying to wake him up. The funny part I thought was the cat putting shoes on for school. I think it would be funny for kindergartners learning about rhyming words.]]> 2016-12-01 05:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141013601 If I Ran for President By Catherine Stier bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141014494 The first sticky not says How a president get people to vote for them. The second Says vocab on this page to teach children what a political party is. The next Very cool how they changed in the book from a boy kid to a girl. The next I like the quote " No one but you knows how you voted" The second to last says teaching children how to be a person who can learn how to lose. The last sticky note says that I like how it ends, and that there maybe a part two.]]> 2016-12-01 05:46:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141014494 The Hat By: Jan Brett bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141014686 I would use this book to teach kids that no matter what someone comes to school in we will still treat them with respect. This is about a hedgehog who gets stuck in a sock, but he wears it anyways because he realizes that it will benefit him in so many ways. As he goes a long he gets made fun and laughed at by so many of the other animals, that is until they realize that the hedgehog is the smart one. I would probably use this near the middle of second grade. I feel that there are too many words on the pages for the little ones to actually get their attention. The one thing I loved about thsi book was on the side you could see what animal the hedgehog was going to go to next. That way the students can predict what might come next,and they would actually know the answer. ]]> 2016-12-01 05:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141014686 Weather By: Penelope Arlone bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141014871 This informational text is very fun. Not only does it have cool pictures it also has a digital book with it. This would ehlp the studnets who have a printing disability. The thing I love most about this book is that it has so much information you can open it up when you have to teach a certain lesson on a specific system of the weather. With all of the information packed inside of it I would read it to the class, but only to 5th graders. The pictures are actual photographs,and has interesting facts about the systems of weather. In the back it also has pages on how we can help save our planet, and it also has a glossary. One section I found interesting was ice storms, maybe because we don't have a lot of those around here so I learned a lot of cool information about them.]]> 2016-12-01 05:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141014871 The Lion and the Mouse By: Jerry Pinkney bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141143379 2016-12-01 15:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141143379 Where the Wild Things Are By: Maurice Sendak bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141146793 2016-12-01 15:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141146793 Sadako By Eleanor Coerr and Ed Young bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141291646 This would be a book that I would read to 5th grade and above. The content is very advanced. I remember reading this book in school, and listening to it after a history lesson. The pictures look like they were water color. The one thing that I loved about this book was that it also brought culture into the story. It showed that the Japanese, believe that if you make one thousand cranes that the Gods will grant you a wish. It also had holidays that they celebrate, and showed the economy is very low income. This could be taught as a history lesson or a multicultural book. One thing I know that I would have a hard time pronouncing the names. two important things of this book would be to show the effects of the atomic bomb, and how innocent lives were taken on that day. The one part of this book that was sad was her not being able to finish the cranes. I thought that it was cool that her classmates finished the project to honor her in her time of life.]]> 2016-12-02 02:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141291646 Raven By Gerald McDermott bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141294794 Very interesting legend to show how the sun came about. I think that even Christians would have fun reading this storybook to children. This is a new way of seeing how the sun came about. The colors are very bright, and I think it would be a cool idea to have students come up with their own legends. The one thing I found interesting was how in the book it would ask questions for the reader to predict what was going to happen. I found that interesting, because it made me stop and think of what the questions were asking.  Before the story is read the teacher could ask the students where do they think the sun came from. This book shows culture with the way they are dressed in this book. I thought it was interesting that there was a sky chief. This shows that there maybe someone who controls the sky. ]]> 2016-12-02 02:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141294794 The Value of Respect By: Ann Johnson bwalton3 https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141295327 This was the biography of Abraham Lincoln. The first thing I thought of was that a student can use this book to do research on a president. At the back of the book it had a timeline of what Abe had done. The one thing I did like was how it took Lincolns real life, and added mystical creatures. Its like the squirrel in the story is helping Lincoln tell the story.]]> 2016-12-02 03:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalton3/p4u4fisz6t27/wish/141295327