What Mommies/Daddies do best by Laura Numeroff

This Wednesaday I choose tis book to read to students at ACQ.
Mommies are great at so many different things. But whether they're helping you make a garden grow, taking you trick-or-treating, or tucking you in with a good-night kiss, all moms are doing one thing best: giving you "lots and lots of love."
First, we described the cover of te book and then we talked about what Mommies can....

Then i read a long with students.Students read as well. The images of is coloful.

A Stray Dog book by Marc Simont

I pick this book because it has charming illustrations.And besides i love dogs.
A heartwarming story of a stray dog and the family who meets him on a picnic one day. They leave him after their day of fun, thinking he must have a family (or using this as an excuse not to worry about him) but the children--and even Mom and Dad!--can't stop thinking about him. 

So on JUly 22  ACQ hosted 18 schoolchildren for a reading session with ACQ volunteer Zebo Murodova from Sarband. She chose the book "The Stray Dog" from the AC Library and first introduced the new vocabulary to participants. Later she read the book and the audience just listened to her reading. After she read it again in a faster tempo. Then she asked the participants to prepare some questions from the story to ask each other. By this help she checked their understanding. Boys and girls asked and answered each others' questions.

Don't let the pigeon drive the bus by Mo Willems

Today in AC REading club we have book " Don't let the pigeon drive the bus book. There were 15 students from different ages from different school.
. This time students listened the audio version of the book. It is easy book with simple pictures. This is the second book of Mo Willems we have read. His books are easy and give good lesson. 
 the book "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus"  The best part is  when pigeon  use different techniques  how to convince him to drive the bus.
This book could be a good basis for discussion with a small child about not touching dangerous things and obeying safety rules. After reading we talked what usually our parents allow us to do and what not to do.
Students make sentences with negative imperative Don't.
This time we have used padlet.com where students make up sentences and everyone see and corrected each other.  Here is link of our wall http://ru.padlet.com/mzeboniso/r59xlcejojtt

Knuffl Bunny book by Mo Williems

We have read the book Knuffle Bunny in or reading session this Wednesday.
A little girl named Trixie starts to cry when she loses her stuffed animal and grows frustrated when she can't explain to her father what has happened. Her father, who hadn't noticed that the bunny was missing, tries to calm her down by talking about other things, which frustrates the little girl even more.It is so hard to be little  and hard for parents that cant understand what babies want to say.
 After some valiant tries (my favorite being the single tearful "snurp") she feels she has no alternative but to burst into a full-blown tantrum. This doesn't make her father any happier and since he hasn't realized what the problem is, he takes her home as she kicks and screams. Once home, however, her mother quickly asks, "Where's Knuffle Bunny"? Back runs the whole family to the Laundromat where, at long last, the beloved bunny is recovered and Trixie says her first real words.

 After reading the book students remembered themselves as babies and what kind of favorite toy they had and how it was dear to them. we also talked what was their first words as babies.
I explained to students about Laundromat and they got notion about this after reading this book.

Have you filled your bucket today?

We have read the book " Have you filled your bucket today? by Carol Mc Cloud.
Through simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heartwarming book encourages positive behavior as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation, and love.
This book explains to children that we all carry an invisible bucket in which we keep our feelings about ourselves. When our buckets are full, we are happy; when they are empty, we are sad.
It is important to know that we can fill our own bucket and so can others. We fill buckets by saying nice things to the people around us. We fill buckets by doing nice things for people.

 

Must read book.

Students enjoyed learning new words and learning about positive behavior.

No, David! by David Shannon (The original story with sound effects)

Snow

Today in AC we have read book Snow by Uri Shulevitz with kids.It is easy book to read aloud.
No one thinks one or two snowflakes will amount to anything. Not the man with the hat or the lady with the umbrella. Not even the television or the radio forecasters. But one boy and his dog have faith that the snow will amount to something spectacular, and when flakes start to swirl down on the city, they are also the only ones who know how to truly enjoy it. 
 Students made new words.

Town and Country Mouse

We have read this book as well with kids. They loved this book. The story is simple but full of adventure. Children love its illustrations.  They compared difference between town and country. With new words we played pop corn game.

Book The Mitten by JIm Aylesworth

Yesterday we have read the book The mitten. It was very interesting book. When a little boy loses a mitten in the snow, a passing squirrel finds it's the perfect place to warm his icy toes. So he sqe-e-e-e-zes inside. But he's not the only animal with that idea. There was a fox, bear and mouse.

We have found two copy of book and i divided the class into two team boys and girls. They read  in turn and translated and described the pictures.
Students loved the book and an ipatiently waited to read what happened in next page.
They found new words to learn. Then each students talked what activities they like to do in winter time. They learned the word mitten and now they know how it looks like.

\lemons are not red by Laura \vaccaro Seeger

today we had read book with kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKXYbCXxaKk

Beastly Feast Book

On Oct 29th in ACT i have read a book by Bruce Goldstone The beatsly feast to kids. Kids love the book but though there were new words for them to learn.
Students first described the cover book. They named all animals and kitchen utencils. There was new animal and fruit and food for them.For example cantaloupe- is lke our small melon handala.Animals like armadillo and moose and bird puffin were unknown to kids. As for food some wre Mexican like burritos it is like our shaurma and  Jewsish knishes like smabusa.

Kids liked the book.

Animals should definitely not wear clothing

On Oct 22 we 22 kids have read a book in AC by Judy Barret

It was very interesting reading. I like how kids loved this book.They learned many new adjective.

This book introduces the skill of making inferences by using the clever relationship between text and illustrations. On every page, an illustration completes an idea that is only partly explained by the text. For example, on the first page, the text says that wearing clothing "would be disastrous for a porcupine." The picture on the facing page shows a porcupine wearing something that looks like tight-fitting pajamas or a dress. The poor porcupine's quills are poking through the garment, disastrously shredding it. Although the text doesn't say so, the inference is that the porcupine's quills would poke through the clothing and ruin the clothes – as illustrated in the text. In other words, the illustrator helps makes the inference for us.
Vocabulary
Make an inference-"read between the lines," guess what the author intends to say
Definitely-for sure, certainly, without doubt
Disastrous-very, very bad
Terribly hot-very, very hot
Manage-get along, to perform in spite of something (I can't manage without you. We can often manage to understand the author's meaning even if the meaning is not told to us directly.)

Here is the website of that book we have read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seCw76LuGDE

recources used.
https://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plan/reading-comprehension/48612.html

A Big scary Monster

 We have read a book by Thomas Docherty. Students liked this book as well.

Aliens in underpants save the world

Today we have read two books.  One of them was about Aliens and students loved it.They learned new words.

October books

 In  October 1st we have read Dinasour tain. Very easy book. \student likeit.

A Clean House for Mole and Mouse by Harriet Ziefert

Mole and Mouse work hard cleaning and tidying their house and spend the rest of the day outside so their house will stay clean.

I am going to do some activities. First one is students will read a sentence each one by one.As this book has a lot of pictures i am going to ask students to describe each page. There will be a lot vocabulary of cleaning tools.

Another activity  i decided to introduce color vowel chart  for teaching ronounciation. Hope they will like it.

I am a leaf book

I Am a Leaf

 The book explores the life cycle of a leaf with easy-to-read text and bright, cut-paper illustrations.

Today Sept 17th we had another book to read in our club. First, everyone read a sentence and translated in native language. Honestly say, i liked this book very much. I prepared two good activities one i made board game "Word" i wrote down all new words and students played and made sentences with new words in their turn. Next activity comrehenshion questions was a handout i found in internet http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/I-Am-A-Leaf-ByJean-Marzollo-Comprehension-Questions-FREEBIE-677046 . I put students in pairs and they work together to answer the questions.

I am so happy when students like the book.I  myself feel very  satisfy at the end.

The nameof the book was connected with reality. It is fall already. The weather gets warm and nights cool.I like to take photos of trees how they change colors.I had great time today.

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Next Book is And the winner is....

And the Winner Is ... tells the story of a young basketball player and his reactions to both winning a basketball game and losing one. Cool J's message on sportsmanship teaches children to believe in themselves whether they win or lose, a good lesson to follow throughout life.

 I choose the book because the message is such a positive one. In this book, rapper/actor LL Cool J stresses the importance of good sportsmanship. The book shows a series of handsome, yet funny cartoon caricatures of LL Cool J being egotistical when winning and being down and depressed when he loses. He then tells the moral; regardless of whether you win or lose, having the right attitude makes you a winner every time. LL Cool J  encouraging kids to never give up.

As school year  has alreadystarted  the whole year  students wil have different kind of contests and competitions in school and out of school.  In this book students will learn a good lesson how is it to be when you win and lose. Of course every student want to win and when they lose they feel very stressed and frustrated and lose motivation and inspiration. I think students should be taught at the begining of school year some strategies  how to behave when you lose and win.
Life is full of competition. By preparing our children to face the realities of winning and losing, we help them build emotional resilience.  We teach them that in the end, it is not the winning and losing that makes us great or small, but it is the manner in which we accept victory and defeat that defines us as people.
Soon is FLEX exams and we wish our students good luck.
“Everyone takes turns to win and lose. It’s alright to lose sometimes. This is all part of the game.”

"Amelia Bedilia

On August 14th for its Reading Club ACQ hosted Zeboniso Murodovaand 14 schoolchildren from different schools for reading

"Amelia Bedilia" book, one from a series of American Children's Books written by Peggy Parish. First for increasing the attention of the participants Zebo conducted a warm up activity and later she introduced the book to the audience. Afterwards she asked to predict about the book by looking at the picture of the cover page. The participants also were provided by handouts of new vocabulary and the idioms and Zebo Murodova conducted an explanation session of the idioms. Afterwards they started to read the book and after reading a small part of the book Zebo asked questions to check their understanding. At the end participants were given assignments to do at home. Everybody enjoyed this activity very much.