Welcome to Litsy!

I‘m looking forward to this weeks #fridaynightshare for #midwintersolace #naturalitsy
Hope everyone is feeling cozy!

Discovering that I enjoy Carle's collage style more when there's an interplay between foreground subject and background, and when the subject is colourful, rather than one object all one colour, i.e bear on a white background. Multicoloured animals and marine life contrasting with the ocean behind them are the best of the bunch. I also prefer it when it's his own simple narrative, as opposed to a hodge podge of quoted, albeit multicultural, works.

#Midwintersolace #NaturaLitsy

Fancy a quiz about literary animals? I got 13/20 😺

https://bookriot.com/literary-animal-quiz/

Artwork by Angela Harding

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-simple-things/20211117/281522229322646

Last month I picked my favorite weekly reads which helped me pick my read of the month at the end. Not necessarily the best written books but the ones that brought me the most joy, made me think or just resonated with me.
This is the graphic I made and it fits today‘s #WinterReadathonDailyChallenge prompt. I love polar bears, cubs, moose and reindeer. 💙
#WinterReadathon

I can‘t wait to open this when I get home from Nashville tonight! I just know I‘m going to love it‘ thank you to @Mynameisacolour for the lovely swap box and @DinoMom and @ShelleyBooksie for organizing the #litsylovesanimals swap!

@TheBookHippie the #litsyloveanimalswap packages have arrived! April, of course, had to inspect them #catsoflitsy

When a peacock loudly calls then look out for rain and squalls

This is another book that I‘m tempted to buy right now and definitely want for my classroom. There‘s so much to discover every time you look back at this book.

The illustrations of this book make the poems seem so much more tangible. The poems flow beautifully along with the illustrations.

This colorful P book by the talented Eric Carle carries children through a series of poems by Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and many more. This is a good book for GR, SR, and CR. #ucflae3413f17

Lesson Plan:

https://lesson-plans.theteacherscorner.net/writing/poetry/

UDL: 2.2 Clarify syntax and structure; poetry is an excellent way to help students work on these things.

"Please, Mommy, I read the animal book to you?" (The answer is always "yes, of course!") There, but not pictured: Best Bunny, Music Elephant, and Bebe [doll] Oliver, who got quizzed on the names of the animals as the teacher read to us.

Visiting Von's Books during a recent work trip.