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= Connecting to Picture Books = Welcome To Tia's Learning Journal. Thoughts, Ramblings, and Reflections on Children Connecting To Picture Books. A 2009 E-Fellowship Research Project.

= = = I am interested in how young children respond to and make meaning from picture books. I want to see if by dramatizing stories, podcasting, making movies, and creating their own books, children will gain a deeper richer sense of meaning from picture books. = Over the next ten weeks of term two I will be reading ten different picture books with my class of five and six year olds. Each picture book will become the topic for that week and we will integrate oral language, reading, writing, drama, art, and the key competencies into our learning. I will record our discussions, video our learning experiences, and document some of the learning with photos and comments. I will write a short reflection at the end of each day of teaching, recording the process and any "Aha!" moments. Some books may continue into the next week and most books will continue into the rest of our lives.

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 * =Week One= || = Week Two= || =Week Three = || =Week Four= ||
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|| || Not A Box  || By Eve Sutton My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes  ||  By Margaret Mahy A Lion In The Meadow  || By Margaret Mahy A Lion In The Meadow-2nd Week || Sometimes movies from a book don't get edited and presented for viewing until later. Below is a link to a movies page where all of the movies can be found on one page. I will announce in the wiki when a new movie is presented for viewing.
 * By Antoinnette Portis

To view movies
Kehua || By Patricia Grace The Kuia and the Spider || Esther Tamehana Roimata's Cloak || Esther Tamehena Roimata's Cloak-2nd Week ||  || Illustrated by Robyn Belton The Duck in the Gun || By Joy Cowley Illustrated by Robyn Belton The Duck-2nd Week ||  ||   ||
 * =Week 5= || =Week 6= || =Week 7= || =Week 8= ||  ||
 * [[image:Kehua.jpg width="194" height="224"]] || [[image:The_Kuia.jpg width="173" height="224"]] || [[image:Roimata's_Cloak.jpg width="168" height="224"]] || [[image:Cloak.jpg width="287" height="214"]] ||  ||
 * By Robyn Kahukiwa
 * =Week 9= || =Week 10= ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:The_Duck_In_The_Gun.jpg width="182" height="224"]] ||  ||   ||   ||
 * By Joy Cowley

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