The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Kerley Barbara....

A wonderful story about the life of an artist. Readers will be engaged in facts about the past and evolution. Character education and addresses the determination and hard work will keep you dreams alive.Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins grew up sketching the world around him but his specialty was sketching different animals. When he has a young man he found his real desire which is sculpting and making his sketches alive. With his hard work seems like all of his works has come alive. Waterhouse has a exciting project which is building dinosaurs. Scientist discovered bones and fossils of dinosaurs but Waterhouse is making them alive. So he worked hard, planning and building eager to captivate the hearts of his fellow men but most of all the Queen and snobbish Scientists. When his work is finished he showed to the public and everybody was astonished, his fame even reached America. He went to New York City dedicated to build just like when he was in London. He filled halls talking about dinosaurs, dragons and evolution. He was about to build a museum in New York but there was a corrupt official named William Tweed. So he left New York and built his dinosaurs in Princeton New Jersey and Washington DC. He went back to England with happiness and old age.
A great book for students to learn who did the first dinasoaur sculpture and have a connection on their favarite dinasaur toys.

It's Back to School We go!

It's Back to School We Go by Ellen Jackson and Illustrated by Jan Davey Ellis
The book is about children from eleven different countries experiencing their first day back at school. Each child's tells something about their culture. The readers will be able to compare and contrast the experiences of each child from their country and culture.
The book is an excellent for multicultural book. It teaches the child diffent cultures. Having this in your classroom library will open the child's minds that there are different approach, practices, beliefs in each culture.

Math activities

I found this book when i was looking books for my annotated bibliography and I loved it. I was laughing and thinking to solve the problems at the same time. This book i a best book that you can keep in your classroom. You can use it to takeout stress in math or use as an icebreacker activity before math period. The book composes of different funny riddles that I believe the chilren will enjoy. This book will help the child on their transition from one subject to another. It will aslo help them relax and think that math is fun. The riddles will help them remember math facts.
Great and funny book.

Chicken Sunday

Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
The book is really interesting. The book is about 3 children who wanted to buy Miss Eula a beautiful Easter hat. However, they didn't have enough money to buy the hat. They decided they will work for Mr. Kodinski's shop in exchange for the hat. When they went in the shop, they were accussed of throwing eggs at Mr. Kodinski. They taught ways on how to prove their innocence and found way too buy the hat too.

This is a good book to teach children respect, love, honesty and hard work.