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Bibliography Cashanna Keegan October 7, 2013 Margo

 Bibliography Fiction books Borden, Louise. (1992). __Caps, Hats, Socks, AND Mittens.__ Scholastic. 32 pages.  Caps, Hats, Socks, AND Mittens is a great children’s book that helps children know about the four different seasons. Within the different seasons there are a lot of sayings in the book that are relatable to a child’s life. The book is very colorful with great illustrations and knowledge about seasons. The book is very informational for a child learning the seasons because it has a lot of repetition and talks about each season in a simple way to remember. Not to mention, the book has rhymes and catches a child’s attention very easily.  This book contains a lot of information about each of the seasons, for instance what you may wear in each of the seasons. This book will be a good book to do sorting. So students will sort characteristics of the seasons and put them in the correct season. Likewise, math will be a good area to fit this book into, students can also sort by items like clothing, hats ect. This book could also fit into writing because students can draw pictures on season items and then they would label the items they drew.
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Harrison, Michael. (1996) __A year full of poems__. Oxford University Press, USA. 144 pages.  “A year full of poems” is a book full of poems that involve the different seasons. The students would not necessarily read the book because it is not exactly a book for children to read themselves, though it’s a great book to have read to them. This book exposes the students to poems and rhymes and it incorporates different types of rhymes. “A year full of poems” provides such a variety of poems that can be read over an extended period of time when the students are learning about seasons.  This book full of poems could be used in writing because this can help students write their own poems or for lower grades, help write rhyme words. Similarly, students can practice reading and writing the rhymes. This book fits in with literacy great because this may help students with word families they are learning or have learned. Also they can make new words that rhyme using a new rhyming word that they heard from the book. Students can also find patterns in the poems, and see if there is repeating verses. Furthermore, doing activities such as spelling, word searches, or writing about the poem they listened to is all great literacy activities for this book . Curry, Don. (2005). __Fall leaves.__ Children’s Press.23 pages. Sunrise library.  “Fall leaves” is about a little girl who is currently in the fall season. In the Fall, the leaves from the tree fall and this little girl has to rake up all the leaves but she is not happy doing so until she realizes that raking leaves could be fun too. So this book shows that while doing work she could play in the leaves and that Fall could be fun. Plus, this book relates to a child’s home life and very relatable. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Everyone experiences the Fall season some characteristics of Fall. Well one of those characteristics that was strongly used in this book was raking leaves, raking leaves is a real life event and some kids have experienced raking leaves or have seen someone raking leaves in their life. This book would be fantastic for a social studies unit because the book shows things that happen during the Fall and it shows that everyone does a lot of things the same but there are also differences as well. For instance, not everyone rakes leaves but it is a common characteristic of Fall that is often done during this time of year. This could be used for math as well because seasons involves different months and you could talk about each of the months and how long a season is.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Leffler, Maryann. (2010). __Let It Fall__. Cartwheel Books. 24 pages. Hohokam Elementary. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The book “Let it Fall” is another book about the Fall season. This book is good for beginning readers and or to just read to your students. The book contains colorful illustrations that display activities that could be done during the Fall, for example, raking leaves or picking apples. This book shows the different colors you would typically see during the Fall (known as Fall colors) also showing that school is back in session in the Fall. It is an easy text book that allows children to get to know and be familiar with one of the four seasons. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book could be used in the month of September because the season turns into Fall then. With that said this could be incorporated into math for example, looking at how many months are in the season of Fall. Similarly, it incorporates into calendar and the teacher can do activities such as, counting the months, doing worksheets that involve counting Fall items. This book could also be used for writing. Students can do worksheets, or write characteristics of the season, draw, label, or write sentences about what they learned about Fall.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Leffler, Maryann. (2010). __Let It Snow.__ Cartwheel Books. 24 pages. Hohokam Elementary. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Let it Snow” follows the book “Let it Fall”. The book has great illustrations and displays lots of characteristics throughout the book that make up Winter. “Let it Snow” is a children’s book that is for students in preschool to first grade. Each page in the book shows what you can do or make in the Winter time. Not to mention, the book shows the readers the positives and negatives of a Winter season. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Let it Snow” is a wonderful book to get students to learn about the Winter and get students engaged in the seasons. This book can be correlated to writing by drawing or writing sentences about Winter. Which can also include word searches, circle maps, pictures, shaving cream to make winter pictures, and writing on white board’s characteristics they remember about Winter. In addition, math can also be used for Winter by looking at the months we have Winter, by counting Winter items, or counting the calendar.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Leffler, Maryann. (2013). __Let It Rain.__ Cartwheel Books. 24 pages. Hohokam Elementary. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The book “Let it Rain” is about the rain and what happens after Winter. So it shows that after Winter there is rain and this is the time where we see flowers to start to grow and blossom. It also shows the Spring has colors that represent the spring season. Spring is a great time to garden and be outside planting. Also in the book shows that in the spring it starts to get warmer outside again each day. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Let it Rain” is a good book for literacy because the book provides a lot of rhyming words. So this can be used to simply introduce rhymes or to even have students just repeat the rhymes. In addition, students can use rhyme in writing and even practice their own rhyme words. This book is also good for social studies because it describes Spring and what things you will see during this season. Likewise, this book could turn into a science lesson as well, for instance, a lesson on how flowers start to bloom, why snow melts, rain and warmer weather.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Leffler, Maryann. (2013). __Let It Shine.__ Cartwheel Books. 24 pages. Hohokam Elementary. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The book “Let it Shine” follows the other books “Let it Rain”, “Let it Snow”, and “Let it Fall”. Moreover, “Let it Shine” is about the summer time and it describes characteristics of summer. The pictures in the book are colorful and the text is easy to read for beginning readers. Each page shows what you can do in the Summer time. Likewise, the book gives great information about the summer, for example, the weather is warm and the temperature outside goes up (so it gets hotter). Also Summer is the time for playing with friends and school is out. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The book “Let it Shine” is a very relatable book to the average child. Children appear to be most engaged and relate most about the summer season. The reason for that is, it is a time for children to go out and play outside, going swimming, go on vacation and have no school. So Summer is a season most children will already know about. Furthermore, this book is great for social studies because the children can compare what they do for Summer to what other kids may do in a different place. Likewise, many students go on vacation during the summer so students can talk about where they went and saw. Not to mention, this could be used for math because the teacher can tell and show students how many days there are in a year and the book talks about how the sunshine’s all year long and the teacher can also discuss the times of the year that have the most sunshine, likewise, warmer days.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rockwell, Anne. (2004). __Four seasons make up a year__. Walker Childrens. 32 pages. Glendale library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book is a great book for children in up to first grade or so. This book is about a girl who lives on a farm that experiences different kinds of seasons and what she sees during that particular season. As each season goes on, the girl tells what she does in each season allowing the students to recognize and remember the seasons by activities she does. This book is also a relatable book because they may do similar activities as the girl does in the book. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Four seasons make up a year” is an awesome book that can be used for math in calendar and even counting. Students can learn how many days are in a year by how long the months are in each season. This book is also good for social studies because it show the different activities that could be done in each season which can be different in different places, as well as clothing. Teachers could even play games to represent clothing or characteristics of the season for students to learn not only the seasons how they see them but what seasons could look like in other places too.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Schulman, Janet. (2003). __A bunny for all seasons.__ Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st edition.32 pages. Glendale library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “A bunny for all seasons” is a good book for beginner readers and has great simple illustrations that bring enjoyment to the story. This story “A bunny for all seasons” is about a bunny that is experiencing different seasons throughout the year. In each season the bunny experiences each of the four seasons and learns about the characteristics of the particular season. For instance, in the season of summer the bunny eats fruits and vegetables from the garden, Fall the bunny sees pumpkins a grumpy cat, in the winter the bunny finds a friend to cuddle with, and in the Spring the bunny sees a garden that he just loves with beautiful flowers and is able to share it with three baby bunnies. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book could be used for social studies because students can look at what kinds of fruits and vegetables grow in what season. Also students can learn where those fruits and vegetables can be found. Science can also be involved because of planting and students can plant their own plant and watch it grow in the classroom and learn about what they need to survive. Not to mention, math can play a part because there is different months for every season so students can learn how long a season last in calendar and what they may see in certain seasons.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Siddals, Mary. (2001). __Tell me a season__. HMH Books for Young Readers. 32 pages. Glendale library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book is more targeted for children who are in second or third grade. “Tell me a season” goes through each of the four season’s Winter, Summer, Spring, and Fall. It has basic descriptions and characteristics of what each season looks like if you were to go outside and experience the weather. It describes the colors of each of the seasons and each page will have a picture of the same red house but items such as, pumpkins, trees, or other items that make up that specific season. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book will be great for social studies because you can discuss the holidays that occur in each of the seasons. Also as a teacher you can also discuss what the seasons look like in other places such as other states or other cities. For example, in Flagstaff it will snow in the Winter but phoenix it just gets cold but does not snow. In addition, dressing up in clothes like jackets, boots, sandals, and shorts to match the season is another activity that students can enjoy and do that involves social studies.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blexbolex. (2010).__Seasons__. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Enchanted Lion Books. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 180 pages. Glendale library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Seasons” is a very simplistic book that is covered full of pictures and the only words that are on the pages are just labels of the picture, such as, summer, picnic, and mosquitoes. Likewise all the text is enlarged and almost one word per page. Each page shows a different picture that goes with the season introduced. The pictures are full of color and the illustrations are simple. This book gives wonderful ideas to what things we often see during the particular season and it is a great way to get students introduced to each of the seasons and gives them plenty of ideas for them to think of what they may see during that season as well. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> After going through this book and discovering all the pictures of what each season looks like and the different things that could be done in this season, social studies fits well for a lesson. Social studies is a great fit because students are learning the meaning to the different seasons and what it could look like. For the winter it shows cold and snow but not all places have snow in the winter it just may be cold. So students can draw or color characteristics to each of the seasons as an activity or just talk about what they remember about each of the seasons and talk about what season they are currently in now.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Eckart, Edana. (2004). __Watching the seasons__. Children’s press. 24 pages. Glendale library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Watching the seasons” is a book that talks about all of the four seasons. This book is a very simple book, allowing the students to easily follow the seasons as the book goes on. With that said, this book is for young children who are just starting to learn about seasons and what makes each season This book shows that the seasons go through a cycle and that every season has its own distinctiveness. This book displays descriptions and gives the audience a picture in their head of what is happening through its words. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This particular book would be great for science. The reason it would be good for science is because this book shows the season’s cycle. Not to mention, students can learn about why seasons change, why leaves fall, how it rains and snows. This book provides good information for students and basic knowledge of the seasons. This book could also be used as social studies because of the season’s cycle and comparing the seasons with other places.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gibbons, Gail. (1996). __The reasons for seasons.__ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Holiday House; Reprint edition. 32 pages. Glendale library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book “The reason for seasons” is a book for ages about seven and up. This book actually goes through the changes in the hemispheres to make the different seasons. It has a lot of vocabulary that children will learn that explains how the season changes. For example, orbiting, earth’s tilt, two hemispheres and goes through how we may be in one season but on the opposite side of the world, they are experiencing a different season. Not to mention, the book tells the audience what animals they may see in the different seasons and talks about what things people may do during the particular season. The text is easy to read and the illustrations are colorful and descriptive. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The reason for Seasons is an awesome book to do for a science lesson. The reason for this is because the book is all about science, such as how the earth moves and tilts, the two hemispheres, it contains lots of science vocabulary that is explained in a simpler text. Students can make their own science experiments for example, using foam balls and a light, depending on where the light is either toward or away from the light will affect the temperature. If the foam balls (earth) is toward the light bulb (sun) then the season is summer. If the foam ball is away from the light we experience winter. This book could also be a social studies lesson because of the animals in the book and what people do in each season. So students can tell about animals they may see in different places and characteristics of that season that correlate with the season.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rustad, Martha. (2006). __Today is sunny.__ Capstone Press. 24 pages. Sunrise Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Today is Sunny”, is a book that lets their audience know what to do, what to wear, the weather and what a sunny day is all about. The book shows a variety of sunny days, for instance, it could be sunny and there could be clouds, there could be sun that shines through trees. There could be a sun even though there is snow on the ground. It also talks about temperature and that the temperature is higher on a sunny day. The book gives ideas on how to protect your eyes and skin from the sun and activities to do on a sunny day. The book gives you internet sites that could be helpful to the reader and the book has a glossary to define some of the words a child may not know. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book can be used for subjects like math, science, and social studies. This book could be used for math because you can measure shadows of items/ objects or your own shadow. For social studies this could be used to see what the kids did over the summer and where else it may be hot in different states or places. Lastly, this book could be used for science because children can do experiments or worksheets that prompt them about different temperatures in the sun compared to in the shade. There are many experiments, like checking which way your shadow goes or if it’s a long shadow or short shadow because of where the sun is at, which shows how the temperature of the day could change your shadow. Having children doing hands on activities that get them involved and interested in the lesson. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Smith, Sian. (2009). __Changing seasons.__ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Heinemann. 24 pages. Glendale library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Changing seasons” is a wonderful book for learning about the four seasons. The book shows that not only does the weather change but that plants change; there are different animals we may see, activities that you could do, it shows that there are different types of clothes and colors that represent the seasons and even talks about insects that may be seen during that time as well. This book is very informational and allows children to expand on their learning from what they already know about seasons. The book is a colorful book that has descriptive illustrations and is easy to follow along to. The text is descriptive and would be a great book to read to kindergarteners and a good book for students to read for ages 7 or up. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book follows a lot of social studies because of all the differences and comparing the seasons. Students can draw, label, or wear, different clothes that represent the season. This book could be used in plenty of ways with social studies for example, like animals, where they live and what kind of weather you see them in. We can look at different kinds of trees, and where you may see a certain type of tree or what the tree may look like as it goes through all four seasons. Students can even do literacy with this book because they can write about what season they are currently in and what they may see in that season. Also doing a circle map where they put the season in the middle and draw and label the characteristics of that season.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 26pt;">Teacher resource books <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 26pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 26pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(2008).__Weather__. World Book, Inc. 32 pages. Sunrise Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book is a general guide to different types of weather. This book talks about storms, rain, wind, snow and ice. There is the four seasons and describes the 4 seasons in a brief summary. Then goes on to a different season a page with more details about that season. The book also gives ideas and fun facts about the weather. It gives a lot of insight to what each season is about and is easy to understand from a child’s point of view. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book would be great for science because the students can study why the weather changes to different seasons. Plus it could also be tied in with literacy because you can do fun projects such as matching the season name with a picture for the correct season. Also, naming and writing characteristics of each season is a good way to captivate literacy in the classroom students in kindergarten and first grade. This could also be used in science because you can do experiments and activities that show how we get different kinds of weather.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Branley, Franklyn. (2005). __Sunshine makes the seasons.__ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">HarperCollins. 40 pages. Scottsdale library. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Sunshine makes seasons” is a book for children that are from kindergarten and up. The book explains why sunshine is important and what the sun does for us. For instance, the sun gives us warmth; it gives us light, and gives us sun shines all year. The book gives children an understanding of the earth’s rotation and that the earth rotates in 24 hours and that’s why we have a day and night time. When the earth is rotating it’s also changing our weather slowly giving us different seasons. Also when the earth faces towards the sun its warmer outside and when its facing away from the sun its colder outside. This book has great information on what makes the seasons change and tells how long it takes to get around the sun and how long summer days are and how long winter days are. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book would be great for math and science. This book would be good for math because you can look at different times of the day and look at how the weather has changed but also what time of the day. So while students are practicing with using clocks they are also learning about seasons and changes. Science would be a great area to study because you can find out why we have seasons and about the earth’s rotation. There is also an experiment that you can do using an orange and a flash light to represent different areas and time zones.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Branley, Franklyn. (1999). __What makes day and night__. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">HarperCollins. 32 pages. Scottsdale library. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “What makes day and night” is a very colorful book with simple looking drawing yet, very detailed. The book starts off from the basics for new learners, for instance, “The earth is our planet. It is round like a big ball. And it is spinning”. The book could be used for all different grades because the text is simplified, but detailed with knowledge. The book tell us about how the earth is always spinning, and it talks about how there is a day and night and how we have different times of the day. It shares lots of knowledge, though if it is for younger children it may be helpful to talk about pieces of the book one day at a time for less confusion. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The book “What makes day and night” correlates well with a science lesson. With that said, the book talks about what the earth looks like and it talks a lot about how the earth rotates to give us different times of the day/ day and night and also different weather. So in a classroom to fulfill science students can shut off the lights in the classroom and take a flash light and a globe and can point the flashlight to the globe and only half of the globe should be light and the other have should still be dark. Students can also spin the globe and see that when the earth is rotating so is day light moving to night time. Also this activity can be used as social studies as well and you can look at the different places and see where it is light and what places are dark on the other side.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Branley, Franklyn. (1999). __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">. HarperCollins. 32 pages. Glendale library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book is a book more appropriate for children in grades first and up. The book is a little more detailed and goes further into science than the basic knowledge. The book talks about rain, storms, and clouds. The information is explained in simpler text where it does not go too in depth but gives just enough for the audience to understand the concept. The book also explains safety and what you need to do if there is a storm likewise, explains the dangers of a storm. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> A fun activity this book could be used for is for a human rain storm. In a human rain storm a student starts off by making some kind of noise by clapping, stomping feet/ hands, rubbing hands together, or snapping and the one by one the rest of the class starts making one of the noises. This book is a great book for science activities such as, creating your own water gauge. To make your own water gauge you need a bottle, cut the top off, take the top off of it and turn it upside in the bottle and have the bottle outside on a rainy day and measure how much it rained. This book could also be for social studies as well by looking at weather in other places and comparing them to our weather.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Edison, Erin. (2012). __Sunlight.__ Capstone Press. 24 pages. Sunrise library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The book sunlight is a very informational book. This book talks about the sunlight and how it affects people, animals, affects what you may wear and what things you may do. This book has a good amount of vocabulary for the students to grasp so the book would be recommended more to a first grader or older. The book talks about how the earth moves and that on the opposite side of the earth is the opposite time of the day. For instance, if we are currently up in the day time then on the other side of the earth it is night time. Not only does it talk about the earth and how we experience differences but it talks about the month in which we experience more daylight than any other time of the year and when we experience less day light. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This book could be used for social studies or science by looking and researching about the earth’s rotation. There could be a class experiment for instance, you could put a foam ball on the counter and shut off the lights in the classroom and lay a flash light down on one side of the ball and it should show one half of the ball light and the other half is dark to represent day on one side and night on the other. Not to mention, for older grades you can look at time zones and how some states are ahead of Arizona by a few hours or earlier. Looking at time zones can change to a social studies project and predicting if we think states near us have the same time or not.