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Remember when I showed you my new favorite book, Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse? well, I ordered this little gem of a book at the same time and LOVE IT!!
It is about the same little girl who is stuck living in the suburbs with her two wheeled horse (her bike). She gets a new pair of cowgirl boots and tries to make friends with her tutu wearing and ballerina dancing new neighbors "the glitter girls." So, she sets out to have a barn dance in her barn (aka her garage) and ends up making quite the mess! But, in the end she has a new friend AND dancing boots ... what more could a girl need?
While this book doesn't have as much of the ranch vocabulary as Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse it still has the country sass that makes it a joy to read. This book can be used to teach writing also - the voice and word choice are both amazing!
There is another Every Cowgirl ... book coming out in late May and I look forward to adding that book to my growing ag book collection.
Do you have this book? What is your favorite ag book?
I LOVE books - especially children's books. When I saw Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse in Scholastic, I was pretty excited. Not only is Scholastic starting to carry ag books but the books looked really cute. So, I ordered it and a few others.
I am in LOVE with this book. I told my students that it is my new favorite book and that they better not complain when I read it to them 10 times every day.
The book is about a little girl who lives in the suburbs. She wears a cowgirl hat, chaps, and a bandana tied around her neck. The language that she uses is amazing - instead of saying that she is going to clean her guinea pig's cage she says that she mucks the stalls in the barn. All she wants for her birthday is a horse. After she herds the neighborhood kids to her house for her birthday party her dad presents her with a brand new pink horse bike. She was disappointed but pretended that is was a horse anyway. On her first ride she crashed into her mother's garden and hurt her horse bike real bad. But, her daddy was able to fix Beauty and she got back in the saddle again. A real cowgirl always gets back into the saddle.
The cutest books I have read in a long time. The vocabulary is AMAZING. It can be used when teaching
writing (it has great voice and the word choice is outstanding). It would be a great way to highlight ranch vocabulary.
Have you read the book? Do you love it as much as I do?
I LOVE to read. As a kid I used to sneak books into my room and read them under the covers with a flash light when I was supposed to be sleeping. It didn't matter what I was reading - I would read a home remedies book my parents had. I had no idea what acne was when I was 8 but I knew how to treat it!
So, as a teacher I read aloud to my class at least 3 times per day. Even when with all of the focus being on teaching reading and math - I will never give up my read aloud. They are too important! Most of my students do not speak English at home and only hear it from me while they are at school, so not only are they learning academic vocabulary, fluency, and tons of other English/Language Arts standards they are also learning the English language.
My read aloud shelf - these are the books that I read to the kids. This was the first set of books about agriculture. I have a hard time finding books that I like about agriculture - I am very picky with books. Last year I got 50 books from the library and ended up buying three of them. This year I ordered 30 books and didn't order a single one.
I wanted a book that was simple and to the point and talked about the 5 areas of agriculture, so I made my own:
There is an error in this book and it is driving me crazy! But, other than that I think it is a great book! the kids love it - the academic vocabulary is very rich. We read it many many times during our ag unit and my kids didn't get tired of it. I found the pictures on google - someday I would like to write ag books for children and I would love to take my own pictures, but that will be a long way down the road.
Gail Gibbons is one of my favorite authors. If you are not familiar with her books - she writes non-fiction books. She writes books about apples, pumpkins, owls, basketball, and many more. If you are new to ag books then check her books out first! This book is about farming (kind obvious from the title) and talks about all the the jobs a farm does. This is a great book! I love that she write about the farm in different seasons but I don't like that the farmer in the story has all sorts of animals and a few crops ... that is not realistic to modern farms. But, I still love it and bought it last year.
I LOVE THIS BOOK! It is about a girl who finds some old potatoes at her dad's house and they plant them, take care of them and in the end the grow new potatoes. This girl's parent are divorced and I love that the books portrays a good relationship between the girls' father and mother (it is very subtle but the father asks about the girl's room and tells her that he would love to see it when she is done). The illustrations are fantastic! This is a must for any classroom library!
World of Farming Set from Scholastic Book Clubs. I cannot find this on the Scholastic website but it was $18 from the book clubs a month or two ago. If you want the isbn number leave a comment or send me an e-mail and I will get it for you. I was surprised when I saw this in the book club flyer and I had to buy it. There are five small books (I think they are about 7 pages each) and they are amazing. They are a little low on the academic vocabulary but they are easy to read and a great addition to my library!
I read many many books to my students over the course of our 4 week unit, the few above are just my favorites.
