Dining Experience

The dinner will be at my parents house in Karnes City and they will be having a home cook meal. In this conversation is: Me,Mom,Dad,Dana,Michael and Elvis, Princess Diana

Me: Good evening everyone,glad you could make it.

Mom: Well Aimee help a little bit in the kitchen but I did all the work!

Dad: I help too! You know.

Dana: Thanks for inviting us

Michael: What's on the menu?

Dad: Macaroni and Cheese, Mashed Potatoes, Collard Greens, Fried Chicken

Dana: Geeze Micheal ,You that Hungary.

Micheal: Hell Ya!

Me: We have some special guest tonight!

Princess Dianna: Thank you for having me

Elvis: Me too. Should I do some singing before we eat.

Me: How about after dinner?!

Me: The style of eating is buffet style so serve yourself,but before we eat lets pray

Me: who would like to do the honors.

Princess Diana: I would. Heavenly Father, thank you for this food and the people I am surround by right now and that we could all be here today to enjoy. Amen

Elvis: That was lovely Princess Diana

Princess Diana: Well thank you.

Me: Well lets eat, ya'll are more than welcome to go back for seconds!

Michael: Did she say, seconds?!

Dana: Oh Lord!

Me: So after dinner we had some entertainment by the famous Elvis!

Dad: Elvis can we sing along with you?

Mom: Me too.

Elvis: All of yall can join in!

Me: I wanted to Thank everyone for coming,Lets party!

Historical Fiction

What is Historical Fiction?

Historical fiction consists of books in which the setting and scene is set in the past,may have some real people or places, but the main characters and story are fictional. Many children gain knowledge about the people,values beliefs, hardships and physical surroundings commo to various periods. Also through historical fiction children can discover that in all times, people have depended on one another and that they have had similar needs.

How can you use Historical Fiction in classroom?

You can have the students do a timeline of the book they have read for the week or you can have each group read a book and they come up with their own timeline of what happened in their own books. I believe every child should like historical fiction because it's important information about the past,present and future. I know I will be using historical fiction in my classroom.

Contemporary Realistic Fiction

1. Come up with a Super Sentence Defintion of Continue Realistic Fiction?

Contemporary Fiction that everything in a realistic story consistent with the lives of real people in our contempoary world. The world realistic does not mean the story is always true. Super natural does not exist. Some the books that would be contemporary Realistic Fiction are: The Boxcar children, Romana The Pest, Curious George. The students are able to identify with characters their own age with similar and problems.

2. How can you this genre in your classroom?

I would use genre in a lot of ways in my classroom. I pick out one of my favorite books such as the "The Boxcar Children" We would talk about the story,then I would have the students do activities about the book. They could pick out their favorite character out of the book ,and write a about that character. I would draw a huge train and the students would come up with what the children had on the boxcar and add some of their favorite things they would want on the boxcar.

Poetry

Love

If you Love something

very very much...

let if go free

If it doesn't not return

it was never meant

to be yours

If it does

Love it

Forever

I enjoy this poem,because it was given to me by my mom. She gave me this poem to me because I had a broken heart... Til this day I thank her for giving it to me because it's so TRUE.

Modern Fantasy

1. What is Modern Fantasy?

Is literature that is set in the real world, but the author has altered one or more characteristics of everyday reality. It takes children into that time and setting into another world,to where they can be part of the story they are reading. Modern Fantasy also gives these five important rules of reading modern fantasy books which are:

1. helps children expanded their curiosity,
2. become observers of life,
3. learn to be sensitive to rules variations within the rules
4. open their minds to new possibilities.

2. Design (create) a unique activity that you would use in your classroom?

There are many activities you can you can use for modern fantasy. I really enjoyed the activity that we got to make our own masks of "Where The Wild Things Are". The activity that I will be using in my classroom is with the story " James And Giant Peach" I used to enjoy "James And The Giant Peach" story when I was growing up, so I figured my students will too.

We would read the story and at the end of the story we would make their own mural of their favorite scene of the story.

Activity Name: " James And The Giant Peach"

Directions: The students would draw their own mural of their favorite scene in the book. A mural is design that you make from free hand drawing whether it's on a wall or sheet of paper.

Steps:

1. I would handout each student a white long sheet of paper.
2. They can use construction paper,markers, colors, pipe cleaners,glue stick,pencil, stencils.
3. Design a mural of their own favorite scene in the story
4. Then we would hang the mural all around the classroom.

Traditional Literature

1. Give one super sentence definition of traditional literature?
Traditional Literature- Is based on children based literature where there is good and evil. These are the kind of stories that have been past down from generation to generation. Some of the stories that I enjoyed growing up are: The Legend of Indian Paint brush, Peter Rabbit and The Three Little Pigs.

2. How can you use Traditional Literature in classroom?
There are so many ways you can use traditional Literature in your classroom. You could have the students come up with new ending the story such as Cinderella or Snow white. It's makes the students more creative and thinks outside the box. They could also write their own play about the story.

3. Will you use traditional in your classroom why or why not?
Yes,I will be using traditional Literature in my classroom. I believe it gives children wanting to know what other children around the world read. There are many different variations of Cinderella . There are different things she loses in the different Cinderella stories from the different countries. It also makes them realize to set good examples for others. If they believe in there dream that have to set goals in order for that dream to come true!

Picture Books

1. What are Picture Books? When can you use them? How? Are there any limitations?
Picture books are - Communicate information or tell stories through a series of many pictures combined with relatively slight texts or no text at all. It also states that the illustration (pictures) are just as important or even more important then the text. Picture books can satisfy a wide age range of readers. You can use picture books from infant-adult years. You can read the different types of nursery rhymes helps stimulate oral language development when they are infants,toddlers. The wordless picture books encourage children to find objects in pictures,tell their own story,and write creatively this for young children 6-18 age. Picture story books are great for reading aloud to the students. I don't believe there is no limitations on using picture books.

2. How do you evaluate or select picture books? What is the processes? There are four major factors on evaluating a picture books.

1. The child's age and stage of cognitive and social devloment.
2. The way in which an adult has or has not prepared the child for an experience with a picture book.
3. The child's emotional state of readiness.
4. The number of times the child looks at the illustrations.

Always make sure you have the books on same topic of what you are teaching for that week. If you are teaching about transportation,don't add a book about bears in there. The students might wonder what bears have to do with transportation. Always keep your students in mind when selecting your books.The relationship between the words and the pictures when evaluating a picture book.

3. What are my personal views on picture books? No,like and why? Use or no use? Why?

I believe that picture books are great way to learn how to read. It all start from Infant through adult. Also, picture books helps children with their writing ,thinking, oral communication and vocabulary. I know when I was growing up I used to love to read the "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", "Brown Bear" and "The Stinky Cheese Man". Those were some of my favorite growing up. I do like picture books, it makes the child wonder what is going to happen next of the story. Yes, I would use picture books in my classroom. You as a teacher can do a lot of activites from picture books,for example: when we work in our home groups we chose 3 different picture books and how we could incorpate these books into activties. There are web activties, cause and effect and sequenced. " Ellas of Course we used web activity and " Some Pig" we used cause and effect and "My Aparon" we did sequence. I believe it makes a child start think of what happened in the story that they had just read or the teacher had read to them.