Along the same lines as Around the World in the Blink of an Eye, this book takes you around the world to different places all in the month of March with a focus on weather.
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On the same day…
Posted in nonfiction, read aloud, tagged global, weather on June 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
talking about time
Posted in nonfiction, read aloud, start with a book, tagged calendar, clocks, global, mapping, maps, time on June 4, 2011| 1 Comment »
Hour by hour, how time flies! Let’s go around the world in the blink of an eye!
Around the World in the Blink of an Eye begins with some facts about day and night, the Earth turning, and clocks. Have you ever wondered what people around the globe are doing right this second? I know I do!
With each page we turn, we travel, one hour at a time, each page we stop at a different place in the world. Each page describing something of that place and those people. Each page features gorgeous art by a local artist.
I admit to being a little disappointed to see Ottawa and Seattle, but not rainy and lovely Vancouver.
Activity: I see a neighbourhood map, or even a world map, with gorgeous art by kids that highlights the essence of each very important place in their neighbourhood.
Have you seen this book? Full of hand drawn maps? I just love how each place comes alive through people’s personal connections to physical places, like mapping their emotional and spiritual relationships to land rather than mapping with precise measuring instruments.
I can see the kids, rain slickers on, pencils in hand, notebooks stuffed into pockets, exploring the neighbourhood on foot, noting important sites, prowling through lovely memories and then returning to school to try and capture the essence of these places they experience in their daily lives.
Not enough information about time for you or your students? Try The Time Book: A brief history from lunar calendars to atomic clocks. Except for great information storybooks, I typically don’t enjoy a nonfiction trade book that has no text features (things that help you find information like indexes). However, this book has such fantastic illustrations (mixed media collage?) and such great information I just have to overlook the text heavy pages. I have no idea how I’d use this with kids. Maybe read aloud a page at a time…
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