Maynard, J., & McEwen, K. (1999). I know where my food goes.
ISBN: 0-7636-0505-0
This book, I Know Where My Food Goes, by Maynard and McEwen (1999) is about a little boy who discusses with his mother, as she is cooking dinner, how food is processed in his body. It goes into detail the different parts of your digestive system, that help the food go on its way. At one point in the book, Maynard and McEwen relate the characters, in this case the small intestine to the length of a giraffe;I think the children would find this fun and interesting.
Eating is something that we do everyday; this is one of the main reasons why we chose to read this book to the children. In our opinion, it is important that children know where food goes once it is consumed. The book has comedic illustrations, that are fairly large with bright colours. The colourful illustrations are important for children to really gain the knowledge and experience around the processing of consumed food.
If I was to chunk this book, I would do it on the pages that explain what that particular organ of the digestive system is doing, such as pages 20 and 21. These pages explain the stomach and intestines. I actually read this book to my 3 year old son who looked at the illustrations after I read it to him, he then fell asleep with the book in hand.
Provocations:
I think there are many ways this book can be introduced to the children. A few examples are as follows:
1. I would use and overhead projector displaying a page from the book on a large wall.
2. Another provocation I would use would be to ask what the children had for lunch, then I would ask them where they think their lunch goes after they eat it.
1. I would use and overhead projector displaying a page from the book on a large wall.
2. Another provocation I would use would be to ask what the children had for lunch, then I would ask them where they think their lunch goes after they eat it.
3 ways to present the book:
1. I would use a felt board with different parts of the digestive system. I would also have a clump of felt food that I would slowly move down the body as I read the story.
2. Another way would to use a power point with pictures of the book reflecting on the wall. I would read the story off the power point to the children, so they can see the story in a larger format.
3. Another way I would tell the story is using an actual human digestive system model. I would tell the story while demonstrating the different parts on the model.
Extensions for this book:
1. Singing the song “ There’s a spider on your stomach on your stomache”. I would start the spider on the mouth and then gradually go down the body. I would also substitute spider with food.
2. Extend the book to looking at different parts of your body.
3. I would also put out different types of fruit that all the children enjoy.Then we would reflect on the book and think about what is happening to bodies right now.
Ruurs, M., & Broda, R. (2007) . In my backyard.
ISBN: 978-0-88776-775-3
If I was to chunk this book I would tag every page because each page has a different animal or insect. When reading the book, I would want to expand a little more on each insect that is read about. In my opinion the mood of the book to me was happy. There were many ways this book can be extended.
Provocations:
2. I would bring in stuffed insects. Then I would hide them in various places around the center, therefore the children could look for them before we started the book.
3. Another idea would be to bring things from my garden into the classroom and put them around various tables in the classroom.
3 ways of Presenting the book:
2. Puppets in the shapes of the insects and animals.
3. Ask the children to be in character acting out the insects and animals.
Ways to Extend the book:
2. Discover more information about the various animals and insects in the book.
3. Draw what the children see in their garden.
Wormell, C. (2004). Teeth, tails & tentacles and animal counting book
ISBN: 0-7624-2100-2
The book Teeth, Tails & Tentacles – An Animal Counting Book by Wormell (2004) is a book that teaches counting using different parts of an animal. For example, one rhinoceros horn and two eyes. The book has large colourful images of each animal described in the book. It is simple reading and some kids might recognize the numbers in the book if they were to flip through the book themselves. I am not sure if I would chunk this book, but if I had to maybe I would chunk the book at a certain number and ask the children how many animals they could think of that have, for example, 12 feet. Its a very simple book that can also be expanded in many different ways which is what I think the author is trying to do. This book is not just about numbers, but is also about different animals in this world.
Provocations:
1. I would use a large stuffed whale in the middle of the room for the children when they come back from break or nap.
2. I would also put various numbers and animals around the centre for the children to find.
Ways to present the book:
1. I would give the children cards with numbers and animals on them, so as we count down the numbers we would try to pair the number off with the right animal
2. I would use clips on power point of the real life animal on the screen and give the children number cards, so every time the animal came up in the book, we would raise the card that belonged to it.
3. I would also use a magnetic board with magnets of the animals and numbers.
Ways to Extend the book:
1. Focus the day on numbers – the class could sings songs about numbers, such as Alice the Camel.
2. Let the children think outside the box by asking them to think of more animals or things that have 10 hands.
3. Research different animals around the world.
Ways to Extend the book:
1. Focus the day on numbers – the class could sings songs about numbers, such as Alice the Camel.
2. Let the children think outside the box by asking them to think of more animals or things that have 10 hands.
3. Research different animals around the world.
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