Curly Wurly Essays

The Bear Who Loved Toothpaste Nancy Lee   Baxter was a very happy and lazy black bear. He knew he was not like other boy bears. Baxter did not want to spend all his time fishing in the streams, or looking for berries to eat. Why should he? Baxter had found something special! Baxter’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner was found at the garbage dump. Old fish tails, moldy bread, and peanut butter were Baxter’s favorite. Baxter had free food, and he did not have to work hard to get it. What an easy

PAT #2 Pre-Reading Tunes for Bears to Dance to by Robert Cormier      When I initially looked at the title I immediately thought of “Goldilocks and the three bears.” I associated the word bears with another story that I knew which was about bears. When analyzing the outside of the book I kept thinking that this book is going to be like “Goldilocks and the three bears.” So after analyzing the front page, I thought the picture on the front page was displaying a hammer hitting a wooden object. In

Reflection helps us relive the experience and can bring out the tiniest detail that becomes so vital to working out next steps. This is precisely what happened to me during this reflection. Using the Curly Wurly and Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle (see appendix C) I was able to reflect on my practice and its effects on the child. Reflection helped me to understand my actions and how the child may have perceived them. In this situation it could have been that