Splat the cat

Splat the Cat    by Rob Scotton   (picture by website)

Do you like the story book  "Russell the sheep"?Yes! I do! I do love the animal style of the author Rob Scotton's Russell who had a little bit lazy, cute and smart...
but how about the cat "Splat"?? Is he smart? cute? or lazy? Guess what.....all of them plus "crazy"....
You can also find his particular shaped tail....

Many excuses for Splat not to cat school..... "I have no clean socks","I'm having a bad
hair today, "The front door  won't let me out", "The gate won't let go of my fingers..."
No one will believe that kind of bad reasons....specially for mom.

Splat finally went to school with his pet mouse stayed in his lunchbox and it was really
causing a big mess in the classroom since a cat raised a mouse as pet?????? Everyone...
no...no...every cat can't believe that, they all did what cat should do....."chasing mouse",
but Splat won't let them hurt his pet....then, guess what happened to next?

Crazy story, right?

Jack Frost

Jack Frost    by Kazuno Kohara (picture and text by website)

If you lived in a house in the woods and all your friends were hibernating

you'd probably hate winter, just like this little boy. But one day a strange

spiky figure appears and transforms the boy's world into a winter

wonderland! How long will the magic spell last?

 

 

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If you can draw pictures well, you can teach your children to pick one page which they like. Choice one dark blue paper and use white color then enjoy it. I like Jack Frost's face, did you see all his feelings on the face, including anger, cheer, happiness, smile......I wish I had a winter friend like him.

Hide and snake

Hide and Snake   by Keith Baker (picture by website)

Do you have a friend like as the snake? Hey, Keith Baker's good friend, Snake, like to play the hide and seek with all friends.
Here we go....

It's a game book for children, you can find a toy snake and play the real hide and seek or there is a very creative English teacher who taught us to let our kids draw some kinds of different article, ice cream, rainbows, umbrellas, book and etc...then you can told the kids to creat their own snake from inside the picture. Don't forget ot let the other kids to guess "Where is my snake?" BTW, you can
cut the snake shape from each picture.....It must be very funny.

Bee Frog

Bee Frog  Martin Waddell illustrated by Barbara Firth
(picture by website)

如果你有不只1個小孩,你能夠有夠多的時間去瞭解每個小孩的訴求及真正的需要嗎???我想答案一定是"NO",對不對??? As I know, kids are not only angels but also evils. Sometime when you just want a liitle bit free time to take a rest, they never set you free! They like to draw your attention or notice but we are always busy~

Bee Frog is the little frog in his family so she likes to be a firece, scary dragon...
but dad and mommy are too busy to notice. They don't even notice when Bee
Frog hops away to practice her dragon noises all by herself....

You know, sometimes kids just like to leave their  home then suddenly they
feel a little lonely.....like as Bee Frog~

Maybe this story can be a drama. And, we can creat the fog dance for kids~
hop, hop,hop.....I like it.

The pig in the pond

The pig in the pond     Martin Waddell   illustrated by Jill Barton

When I first read this book, I really had a great time then  I also introduced it to my Bible teacher who had the same feelings!
It's quite easy to read aloud to children and encoruage them to chime in on the many words, phrases, and animal sounds that are repeated throughout the story.

Specially, I like the pig's dancing for 6 steps:
1. rose from the ground
2. turn around
3. and around
4. stamping her feet
5. and twirling her tail
6.and "SPLASH" (jumped into the pond)
Then Splash... Splash... Splash... Splash... Splash... Splash...Oh, my,
The farmer Neligan came back and...
1. took off his hat
2. took off his pants and boots
3. took off his shirt
4. took off his underwear and...
5. and "SPLASH" (joined the pond)

Look at the ducks and the geese were splashed out off the pond....
Sooooooo...coooooool~ isn't it?

I'm the biggest thing in the ocean

Who is the biggest kid in this class?then "the smallest one?"
What is the biggest thing on the land? then "the smallest thing?"

What is the  biggest thing in the ocean  by Kevin Sherry
"I'm a GIANT squid and I'm BIG."
I'm bigger than these shrimp.
I'm bigger than these clams.
I'm bigger than this crab.
I'm bigger than that shark (shhhhh!)
..........
.........
.........
I'm the biggest thing in the OCEAN!
(圖文摘錄自往網路)

but.....what happen next?
接下來超精采的劇情則用圖畫來表示....??究竟發生了什麼事?

小朋友常在學校裡比來比去,這個故事可以好好的來玩一下
超級比一比呀~

1. warm up: song " Where is thumbkin?"
2. Q & A (as above mentioned)
3. Story
4. game: 2 Ss 猜拳, 輸的一方雙腳要張開比勝方大一點,再猜拳,
    輸方要比對方或剛才的寬度再大一點...以此類推囉~

超好玩的一本書呀~封底也有戲耶~哈

Little chicken's big day

Little chicken's big day   by Katie Davis and Jerry Davis

"For this plucky little chick, the world is an amazing place.
So when his mama hurries him along on a big day out,
little chicken falls behind. Soon he finds himself feeling
a tiny lost and a tadless plucky. Happily, his mama is
always just a cluck away. "
(圖文摘錄自網路)

相當簡短的故事but for幼稚園剛剛好,Hey瞧瞧母G龐大的身影,
從露出一隻手臂->張大嘴教小G起床刷牙洗臉穿衣服->吃早餐
->上車綁安全帶->跟著媽媽探索世界...(好像我的寫照呀??)
突然飛來了一隻蝴蝶(會不會又是monkey puzzle那一隻??),小G
一個閃神沒聽到母G喊著hold my hand~ stay close....竟然轉身跟著
蝴蝶玩.....Nn......媽咪咧?又圓又大無辜的臉,帶著淡淡的擔憂眼神
特寫,只聽到背後傳來熟悉的聲音...Little Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicken!嘿嘿
~儘管母G生氣到雙手插腰,小G已迫不及待衝向嗎咪,拉著母G的腳!
母G與小G在這個頁面中興奮擁抱.....母愛幾近滿溢.....
So beautiful............(接下去自己找書看囉...)

monkey puzzle

Monkey puzzle 小猴子找媽媽~Julia Donaldson

好棒的故事,Ivy在幼稚園,小2,小5實驗了同一本
英語繪本Monkey Puzzle,看看每一個族群的反應
如何~還挺有趣的呢....小猴子要找媽媽,蝴蝶好心
來幫忙,可怎麼越幫越忙呢???到底小猴子能否如
願來找到媽媽呢?母親節前應景的故事,效果很不
賴呀!!(picture from website)

Storytelling Procedures:
1. warm up ~ 5 little monkeys are jumping on the bed
    use the f fingers as monkeys, other palm as bed.
2. story
3. game1: water pipe for messages transferring.
    Give 1 water pipe for each 1 Ss team (6 Ss) line
    T print out and whisper a word message to the first Ss
    then pass one by one. Last Ss speak out loud the word.
    game2: use the body language to pass the "secret animal"
    to team members, one by one, then show the answer.
3. Discuss about what animal's baby is different from her mother?

好忙的Ivy

最近好像說故事的活動太忙了,剛從埔墘國小回來,她們的故事媽媽也很認真耶,而且有專屬的故事媽媽休息室....哎....海山的媽媽會不會太刻苦耐勞了呢??

一連串的忙碌讓生活過得好像高鐵的速度一樣快,三不五時還要熬夜幫豪哥加油..想想這也是一種家庭主婦的幸福呀..該是知足才對呢!

近期活動:
A定期說故事:
A1. Fri    海山204
A2: Wed 海山百合班
A3:Fri     海高月亮班
A4:Thur  海山513

B定期進修:
B1. Tue  新北市圖少年小說/繪本創意活動課
B2. Tue  英文查經
B3. Thur 禮茿英語繪本課

C定期活動:
C1. Mon 天母婦女中心 親子閱讀
C2. Thur 爾雅讀書會 (隔2周)

D不定期活動:
D1. 新北市政風處推廣閱讀
D2. 重慶國小讀書會
D3. 英閱會讀書會salon

pigs can't fly

Pigs can't fly    by Ben Cort 

好可愛的小豬耶,雖然羨慕長頸鹿有長長的脖子可以看得更遠,斑馬有漂亮的條紋,大象有長長的鼻子,小鳥有翅膀可以飛......但最後他還是明白,羨慕別人沒有用,有時做自己最簡單也最快樂!

重複的句子,可以讓小孩跟著練習,輕快的節奏,孩子也可以很容易就知道小豬的心意.....每一次的模仿都有跡可循,是一本親子共讀絕佳的推薦喔~

至於活動的設計,我想可以利用動物的特徵及特長來發揮喔....待我努力的發想在上 傳囉!!

Madeline at the White House

Story and pictures by John Bemelmans Marciano (摘要取自內書頁介紹)

Do you hear about the story of Madeline? Today, she will visit a very special place out of her country with the other 11 girls. Where is it? Guess!

Madeline and friends are off to enjoy a wonderful American adventure. The White House in Washington, D.C., is their destination, where they are the guests of he president's lonely only daughter for the annual Easter Egg Roll. Cake and ice cream, dress-up game, and scary stories told in the dark are capped off by a magical nighttime tour of the capital's most famous landmarks, before it's time for the twelve little girls in two straight lines to say, "Au revoir", America!"

Madeline與其他11位小女孩一起出國拜訪美國總統的女兒,一位總是孤單的在白宮裡上課或是玩耍的小女孩Candle...but Madeline帶來了驚喜!"一隻可愛的兔子"加入了她們的假期~接下來的Easter celebration可是超級棒的~不論是找蛋的遊戲還是好吃的冰淇淋派,巧克力蛋糕....wow!讓每個人都吃到要鬧肚子啦...

最後一夜Madeline與Candle在房裡大開party,玩變裝遊戲或是玩玩撲克牌,恐怖遊戲等等....但是分離的時刻總是要到來,Candle不捨Madeline離開,魔術師小兔子施魔法,櫻花花瓣載大家,飛到美麗星空下,直到太陽來報到~Madeline與Candel趕快回到家,因為保鑣和修女找不到她們,急得已快瘋啦!!原來她們一起在Madeline的床上睡著啦!! (全文讀起來也是押韻的喔~Ivy試著在最後一段文中使用韻文方式呈現)希望好朋友們喜歡呀! (picture by website)

Froggy's Halloween

Every kid likes Halloween! Specially the froggy who should be super frog, faster than a dragonfly, stronger than a bullfrog......Halloween meant candy, but it also meant dressing up. Froggy wondered,"What should I be for Halloween?"

Froggy是一隻極受歡迎的美國小青蛙,糗事一籮筐的他,無論是外出用餐或是到海邊游泳,總是能將場面變得令人啼笑皆非,也是我幼稚園的小朋友超愛的角色喔~

Froggy的系列書很多,這本Froggy's Halloween,說出了小朋友期待Halloween的心情,
每個人都想要精心的打扮好成為同學羨慕的焦點.....當然也可以要到最多的糖果呀~Froggy最後到底打扮要比牛蛙強壯還要能飛的夠高的? 到底是甚麼呢??
精彩內容,還是自己去欣賞吧!

Pete's a pizza

Ha, I like the story told about recipe or food, here is the one! Pete's a pizza~ I like the idea from Pete's father, he is such humorous, not only cheered the boy up and they had a wonderful funny time together, specially in rainy day.

Last Friday, I introduced this book to 海高附幼...and the activities were recorded as below:
1. warm up: Recognize the shapes, circle, triangle, rectangle, diamond, square, heart and oval.
You can play a lot shape games with body movements, like as "Who can make a circle by your body parts? You will find their creations, they can use fingers, palms or legs to do it.

2. story: Discussed the different type, shapes, favor, ingredients of  pizza. Then, tell the story. I ask Ss to help father roll the dough. right and left, up  and own, hard and soft...then put what they ordered fruit, vegetable, meat, ham or seafood and then put it into the oven and shared to everyone.

3. game: Pizza rolling challenge  ~ boys & girls
    2 Ss as a team, 1 is the dough and the other is the cook, then the cook must roll  
    the dough on the floor.....see which dough is rolling fast than the other.

You can see everyone try very hard to roll on the floor without pushing to win the game....Finally~the winner is boys team....Congulations! I know, they love the story~

Here is the contents from Youtub for reference~ (all from website)
1.Pete’s a pizza
2.Pizza song

和您的寶貝來玩--Let’s make a pizza
1.Find a dough (pretend some in you hand)
2.Roll it
3.Put into some water, salt
4.Roll it and race it.
5.Make a pizza. (put anything your kid wants)

The perfect nest

Oh, my~ 今天可是海小百合班搬家後第一次說故事, 我特別選了一本跟"家"有關的英語繪本"The perfect nest" Catherine Friend, illustrated by John Manders.別具意義喔!!

The perfect nest 顧名思義即知是某種"鳥or家禽"最理想的家=巢nest.......but這可是由不懷好意的貓-Jack所辛苦打造與裝潢~有非常舒適的稻草及軟墊加上七彩的燈泡點綴,不消說一定會吸引眾多禽鳥前來一探究竟的,但是到底Jack為什麼會這樣好心的幫禽鳥們打造美麗的家呢????是不是有甚麼壞主意呢?故事中,母雞首先出現了,覺得很不錯,住下來生了個小雞蛋...誰知母鴨也來了,這麼棒的家誰不愛呀,她也要住下來,把母雞推出去,生下個中鴨蛋......最後鵝媽媽也聞風而至,太美妙了,我也要住下來,把母鴨給踢下去..生了個大鵝蛋....大家都爭先恐後想要佔上風~Jack想了想~壞了...我本來是想要拿蛋來作歐姆蛋早餐,午餐還有晚餐...我該怎麼辦才可以把他們都趕走呀???傑克到底會使出甚麼計策才能拿到蛋呢?後續又會有甚麼發展呢??

非常有趣又有戲劇化的結局,小朋友對於結局可是哈哈大笑呢!!希望你也會喜歡喔~
(picture by website)

The first story for kidergarden

"The very busy spider" by Eric Carle (picture by web)

I love Eric Carle specially a.m. story which spider works hard and calm.
 No matter horse, sheep....or rooster invites her to play together, she
 doesn't answer and keep spinning her web.

Suprise!!

今天海高校園中的櫻花幾乎全開了,讓一早經過的Ivy有種浪漫的

感覺呀!春天真的來了~心情都high起來了!

story activities

1. warming up : ask Ss what they did during the Chinese new year vacation.

2. key words: spider + man, super + man, bat + man, spin the web

3. storytelling

4. song: the itsy weesy spider
5. game: rubber bands x 80 (make 4 lines)
    5-1 invite 8 Ss and each one hold each end of one rubber band as a web
    5-2 other Ss can crawl or jump to past the rubber band
    (this is the simple game, u can change the web structure and have fun.)

2011年紐約時報票選得獎好書

2011年都快過完了....現在才po上這些好書會不會太慢了呢??
不過好書總值得一再的品味, Ivy會好好研究這些書,看看我們的圖書館有沒有採購進來,屆時歡迎一起來討論喔...

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/11/09/books/bkr-illo-ss.html

Reading is Thinking!

今天讀了 "Chryanthemum"這一本關於名字的書,讓我聯想到另一本我也喜愛的書"Tikki Tikki Tempo",每一次帶孩子們閱讀時總會提到每個人的名字都是獨一無二的,但總是會被吐槽...菜市場名,算命算的都一樣等等...其實英文名又何嘗不是呢?到處可見的Ivy,Mary,David....(sorry,無意貶低各位)所以最好能告訴孩子關於他/她名字來源的小故事,雖然現在改名字很方便,但是想想要將一個陪伴自己很久的老朋友遺棄,真是令人不捨呀~

Chryanthemum雖然名為菊花,但是其中父母親充滿了滿滿的愛與關懷為孩子命名,怎奈同學的嘲諷與欺凌,讓原本開心上學的小老鼠Chryanrhemum失落的放學回家找安慰.....


Tikki Tikki Temp則是諷刺中國傳統重視大兒子而取了個長長的名字表示隆重,怎知這樣的名字卻讓去求救的弟弟吃足了苦頭,差點延誤了救哥哥的時間....

(我通常會請小朋友玩命名~幫忙麥當勞的漢堡取名如無敵香酥Q嫩海辣雙層牛肉起士蔬菜堡.....然後請其他小朋友連續唸個5次,然後互相pk,好玩極了)你也可以試試囉~

Night of the Gargoyles

Night of the Gargoyles 夜晚的吐水怪

今天讀了這一本很驚豔的書,原因除了作者與彙者都是我很喜愛的圖畫書界的大人物外, 今天上午剛上完了永康老師的怪獸課,益發覺得怪獸真是可愛呀.....偏偏這本書中的怪獸非常得與眾不同,如此的人性化,又帶著神秘感....一口氣讀完它就想立刻上網訂購...可惜我要的是英文版,看來得要好好找一找啦~分享給大家囉.....(我聯想到中國古代建築或是廟宇好像也有怪獸???)

(以下資料來源:博客來網路書店)

吐水怪，一種設在建築屋簷的排水管，因外觀通常以人類或動物雕像作為裝飾而得名。夜晚來臨了，這些栩栩如生、似人似獸的吐水怪，紛紛從高處攀爬下來，探視著房子裡的光景、嘲笑著人類心裡的恐懼，直到黎明自天際升起。
■作者簡介
伊芙．邦婷（Eve Bunting）
1928年出生於北愛爾蘭，後移民美國，她的書都不是自己畫的，作品豐富，文字簡潔，浪漫十足，創作的角度寬闊，只有狹隘的不寫。住在一個舊書店和華人很多的帕殺敵那小鎮，1995年以《煙霧迷漫的夜晚》(Smoky Night)榮獲凱迪克金牌獎。
■譯者簡介
楊茂秀
毛毛蟲兒童哲學基金會創辦人。
矮矮的個子，長長鬈鬈的頭髮有五分之一是白的。外號「歐巴桑」，其實是男的。1944年生。已婚，有個女兒。求學過程一直不算順利，初一時留級過一次，博士論文寫了好幾遍才通過。一生好讀雜書。曾任教美國蒙特克萊大學兒童哲學促進中心(IAPC) 、輔大及清大、教授心理與哲學、美學、兒童哲學、兒學文學與思考實驗、父母學等。現任教於國立台東師院語文教育系。喜歡寫故事、說故事、和朋友走山看海。
■繪者簡介
大衛．威斯納（David Wiesner）
生長美國紐澤西州，畢業於羅德島設計學校，他的作品不算多，但是本本精采。1989年以《夢幻大飛行》(遠流出版)獲得銀牌獎，他經營的意象充滿敘事和隱喻，常常讓人感受到心靈的大地震。他的家住在布魯克林，太太是外科醫生，他們有個兒子Kevin。

11/01 It looked like spilt milk

I use the sign language to present this book which I refered from Youtube and I love the sing language, too. I remember that I learned it since I were still a college student.

Contents:

1. present the sige language of animals mentioned inside first and teach Ss how to do it.

2. Storytelling (acting while the animal showing up)

3. Activity: (use 2 hands)

3-1 Basic ....turtle, turtle move~ (same as Chinese game) ~use fingers

3-2 Advanced...........crodile crodile up/down/right/left ~use palms

This game is very easy to play and Ss like to PK Ivy which have a lot of fun.....

p.s.

I also use the same game to present another story book "little croc and bird".

The bird taught the little croc how to make friends with the others "treat them nicely, warmly and no teasing" then the little croc learned a lesson and finally won the friendship from the animals but....

10/26 An unlucky day for Ivy

This was a bad day for me since I had a car accident and broken my ring finger! Poor Ivy!

It's quite hard to use only right hand to do everything including shower, key-in, riding my motocycle....etc. The doctor said that I should rest at least 3 months. Can you image that? Wow....

So, I think I have enough spare time to update my blog and recommand more interesting story books for all.

GoGoGo....