Thursday, May 29, 2014

All About Eric Carle

Here are some great links if you are beginning a unit on Eric Carle. This first link shows us how he creates his collages for his books.
http://www.eric-carle.com/photogallery.html

This link Eric Carle reads his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkYmvxP0AJI

This is a video of Eric Carle talking about his book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuw_OHXi1mA

ENJOY!



Character Development

Working on developing character in your students? Check out these links:



http://wheatland.k12.ny.us/academics.cfm?subpage=468863

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson175/traits.pdf

http://www.forcharacter.com/100ways.htm

Sunday, April 20, 2014

A Class Divided

This link takes you to a PBS documentary of a lesson on prejudice and bigotry. It is an eye opening experience for this teacher's class of third graders.