11/23/10

Red Sings from the Treetops

Author: -Joyce Sidman
Title: -Red Sings from the Treetops
Illustrator: - Pamela Zagarenski
Publisher: - Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Year: -2009


Format: -Hardcover
Genre: -Caldecott
Reading Level: -Emergent Reader
Interest Level: -Early Elementary


Topics: -Seasons, Colors, activities to do in the different seasons.




Summary: -
This book goes through the season and what colors are seen in those seasons. They give about four examples per page and about five different pages for each season. Every color has its own page. Every picture on the pages has the prince doing different things such as in the fall he is raking and going on a school bus since is the time when school starts up again.





Extension Activities: -
Have the children draw a picture of them doing something in the season you teach the lesson. If you teach this at the beginning of the year have them doing something is school if you do this at the end of the year have them draw them doing something in the summer.