3344 Writting conference

This week I was asked at my writing conference (4th grade)to do a presentation of "The Day of the Dead" "El Dia De Los Muertos" This is a Mexican tradition that runs in my family that we celebrate on Nov.1 and 2 . Our Aztec tradition was to celebrate it late July and early august many years ago and now we celebrate it in November. In Mexico we believe that Mexicans embrace death. They use Dia De Los Muertos as an opportunity to celebrate the death and the life of loved ones and friends they knew in this world. And it is a day of celebration, not a day of mourning. FYI This is also a Chinese tradition in some families.
It was honor to get invited I had an opportunity to actually set up a table with pictures,(calaveras)skulls and other items and just give a brief presentation about my culture and customs. I started by introducing myself and then talked about ,multicultural and the importance of respect among one another and how each of has have different beliefs and customs. I read a book, then the students gave compliments and asked questions. At the end of the presentation I gave the students cookies that were Skull, bats and pumpkins that I bake for them. All this was done by the school permission. It was a wonderful experience the teacher, students and administration really enjoyed it. I was a bit nervous because I as not expecting to many adults.
This was a wonderful experience!

3321 Nonficton book as well ( Author Profile)

Nonfiction books are about real facts about people,animals events(weather), places or things.
My favorite nonfiction books are about animals and nature. They provide facts, that have been researched or studied. Gail Gibbons is a good author that provides a variety of educational books that can help children understand these real topics mention above.
Check out her site: http://www.gailgibbons.com/books.html

3344 Expository (MPG) Visual Aids M-W

For my expository writing, I will create a few visual aides with different topics that will explain to my First Graders the steps of using the particular visual aid.
It will be broken down in subject categories giving an explanation of the importance of the visual Aide and "The steps or directions of using this visual aid.
As far as my persuasive I will be writing a letter to administration and my First Grade Team about the importance of visual aides and encouraging them to purchase more visual aidsfor the First Grade classroom. If anyone has ideas or points please bless me with them, I will appreciate any help I can get. thank you! Do you think this is a good idea? Anyone... Anyone... Hello? Feel free to ask me questions, maybe ideas will come up.

Mon.-Wed. 3321 Author Profile

Graves Family with Patricia Polacco. This is a funny book with colorful pictures has creepy details. My son loves it it has great messages, a book of how differences should be celebrated and not feared. This is a great book again in my writing time after reading the book I would ask the students what detailed words the Author used.
Then I would ask students to try to go back and used details words in their stories.
great book to read since Halloween is coming up.

Mon.- Wed. 3321Author Profile

This is a very good book written by Robert Munsch, a Canadian Author. This a story about a little boy named Lance, he loves dressing up for Halloween, but this time he decides to paint his face very scary. Lance goes trick or treating scaring the neighbors and stealing candies. This is an awesome story, especially with Halloween coming up I would do a mini lesson. I would read this book during my writing time. Before reading I would ask the students to pay attention to beginning, middle and end.
Then I would ask them to go back and do their writing of a scary moment. For them to concentrate on their beginning, middle, and end. Also this is a great book that uses a lot of Onomatopoeia which is using words that imitate the sound that make noise. Example: Whaa! Whaa!

3321 M-WThe Path of Needles or Pins: Little Red Riding Hood

Hello everyone I did not get to blog last week. I was reading The Path of Needles or Pins:
Little Red Riding Hood, I was eating my breakfast when I was reading the story, not a good idea you see, I visual what I read and I visual it in detail. So first of all this story is pretty graphic. This folk tale has been written over and over giving us more less the same plot but as we read them we analyze them, interpret them depending on each of our own social attitudes, traditions,and behavior we base our experiences and we then criticize the stories. There are a few things that I liked about the story compared to other Red Riding Hood stories, how Little Red Writing hood ran away and out smart the wolf. The only thing I think that I saw risky was that Little Red Riding Hood allowed the wolf to get to close to her. I did not like the way the wolf ate the Grandma that was too much detail. I wonder how those children that were read this tale, affected them. Now a days I know that many kids read wYou can worst things than this or better yet watch horror movies way more graphic. I believe that I had a choice of using this story I would probably use this folk tale with middle School Students, we would do a compare and Contrast assignment with the same story but written by different authors. I would read the more revised Little Red Riding Hood to the younger kids and more less implementing an assignment about, trust, obedience, do not talk to strangers. There are many things that I could do with this story, and I am sure the students would learn a lot and enjoy it.

3344 Mon.-Wed what is Narrative

Narrative is a writting that tells a story or part of a story. It has a beginning, which will have a setting. The setrting could talk about when and where the story is being taken place. It can also introduce the characters of the story. The middle gives details and the end. A narrative has these general characteristics. It has an introduction of the topic which is in the beginning, then it could have a rising action,a plot a climax, a falling action and a resolution. Their has to be descriptive details about what you are talking about. At he end it can go back to where the story started.

3321 M - W Maya Angelou

The first time I heard of Maya Angelou was when I was going to San Antonio College, I heard more about her when I attended ST Philips college. I felt in love with this woman poetry, not only what the message is, but hearing her say them herself.
She is a very motivational woman who talks from the heart and experience. This someone I would definitely like for my students to learn from her poetry. One of my favorites poems is "Still I Rise" If you had not heard this poem listen to it, and see what you think? This is an inspirational woman, when you feel like you are at the end of the line and you can not take it anymore let her live interviews motivate you, not to give up! It does for me.