Child Observation At Swett-Winters

Book: If you give a mouse a cookie by Laura Numeroff, Harper Collins Publisher Summary: In the beginning of the book a mouse asked a boy for a cookie which lead for a glass of milk and more request. Its all began with a mouse asking for a cookie which made the mouse want something new, afterward the mouse creates an endless stream of request that eventually will turn into a cycle. Which leads the reader thinking the cycle will go on all over again beginning with the mouse asking the boy for another cookie. The philosophical context is determinism because it is like life is already set for them with repeated steps for the near future. The mouse asked for a cookie and the mouse will keep asking for the other request.

In the Poem “Oranges” by Gary Soto the theme of the piece is, to sacrifice for others in the name of love is worth everything you have. the theme of the story, though, is improved upon by literary devices. The first literary device present in the poem is Simile. The simile helps compare the items in the story that the main character talks about or saw while in the Drugstore with his girl on the date. While going through the store he comes across candies that were “tiered like bleachers”( Soto, 26), there were so many choices and his girl picked out the chocolate on one of the shelves, although what she picked out was more expensive than he thought and couldn’t afford it.

I remember trying to paint my nails for school and they looked so bad I remember drinking strawberry pop, which is hard to find nowadays I remember when I got my first camera. It was a big bulky camera that required film. I took random pictures of my house and my dogs. I remember eating animal crackers form snack at

Students watch two video shorts, one about the number one and one about the number two. They watch the videos on the smart board while sitting in their spots on the carpet. There is some giggling because the videos are intended to be a little silly. Something else they also did was to read the book Chick- Chicka 1-2-3. This is an entertaining book about the number zero who is trying to climb the apple tree, but finds it to be a difficult task to complete with the numbers 1-99 in front of him, and not to mention the bumblebees that cause chaos as well.

In the beginning of the book, it’s Palmers ninth birthday and he gets “The Treatment”. “The Treatment” is when an older boy punches you nine times in the arm. At that time, he was so excited about getting “The Treatment” and conforming with his group of friends by making fun of Dorothy, a childhood friend. But when Nipper, a pigeon shows up on Palmer’s windowsill, comes into the story it changes his thoughts and ideas on his feelings about being a wringer. At the end of the story, Palmer saves Nipper at Family Fest by picking Nipper up and walking away with him.

On page three the dad says ”That sun. He could feel it on his neck, still, like a hot paw”. Bradbury uses this as a way to show the dad 's fear of the nursery in the growing darkness of the room. Another simile Ray Bradbury uses in The Veldt is when the children return from the Plastic Carnival. “Wendy and Peter were coming in the front door, cheeks like peppermint candy, I was like bright blue Agate marbles, a smell of ozone on their jumpers from their trip in the helicopter.” He uses this to develop the innocence of the children on the outside, to later show the darkness growing in the children.

10- monkey see monkey do. What i mean by this is kids will do as their parents do. If a son sees his dad beating of his wife the son will grow up and do the same. Sometimes children will do certain stuff they see their parents doing and they don't even know it's wrong. They just do it because their parents do it.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scouts changing perspective of Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley represents a coming of age moment because it demonstrates a breaking away from the childlike imagination that had previously explained all of their questions and superstitions about the Radley’s. A coming-of-age moment is the transition of thinking that occurs when someone learns empathy. At the start of the novel, in many situations, Scout and Jem demonstrate childish behavior and thinking when Jem is taunted into touching the side of the Radley home by Scout and Dill. The book reads, “Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house, slapped it with his palm and ran back past us” (18). From this portion of the novel we can tell that Jem and Scout clearly regarded the Radley home and its occupants with novelty and even fear.

2014) The students will also read with a partner, help them improved in their reading together. For chapter five, the student will do guided reading. Working with a partner they get to read a fun chapter where they learned why Rod Allbright cannot tell a lie. The story on the first time Rod told a lie, when he was three years old Rod wanted a cookie but his mother told him no but he decided to take one anyways. When he heard his mother coming back he stuff the cookie in his mouth, when she asked if he had cookie in his mouth he denied but with spray of cookies crumbs flying

Until the sick girl meets the bird she knows what he wants and lets him free to fly anywhere and because of that the bird always flies past her window every day. This books related to a man named, “Martin Luther King,” he fought for his rights, even shouted like the bird, but people just disagreed!