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Gooney Bird On The Map (2011)

by Lois Lowry(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0547556225 (ISBN13: 9780547556222)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

series

Gooney Bird Greene

review 1: 3/21/2014February is also the birthday of TWO other presidents: Ronald Reagan and William Henry Taft.Gooney takes special interest and many "moments of silence" with her second grade classmates for William Henry who died after only one month in office.Geography made interesting by a map in the snow, surrounded by blue painted oceans and flags of where Barry, Beanie & Ben will be vacationing. But, wait - no one else has a special vacation location and the 3 B's are GLOATING. So we overcome that by assigning states (by first name initial again) to each classmate who gives a presentation on little known fact and the 3B's do the audio sound effects.Tyrone's Raps are becoming quite the attraction, as well. Even Mr. Leroy raps along!!!
review 2: Gooney Bird on the M... moreap is about a second grade class who is already for their vacation, Valentine’s day and President’s day. They all want to talk about their vacations, while the teacher tries to reel them back in and talk about subtraction. Gooney Bird always saves the day, and comes up with great ideas. To keep the students from talking about their vacations, she decides to make a map of the United States in the snow. All the students can see where they are going on vacation and it can relate to geography. Lois Lowry does a great job with setting. She really creates a good atmosphere of a second grade class and this helps develops her characters as well as set the mood for the story. Duffy explains how, “ a sense of place is key to all writing.” Creating a scene will help with the imagery of the story. I would use this book to help students with the setting as well as integrating it with social studies and math. less

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