{"id":1745,"date":"2009-09-14T13:31:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1745"},"modified":"2009-09-14T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:31:55","slug":"teaching-life-processes-with-childrens-literature-growing-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/14\/teaching-life-processes-with-childrens-literature-growing-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Life Processes with Children’s Literature: Growing Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Introduction and Summary:<\/strong>
\n<\/a>Growing Like Me<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> written by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by Holly Keller, is a great resource to use when exploring life processes at the most basic level.\u00a0 The book begins by explaining, “Here in the meadow, by the woods and the pond, everything is growing, just like me,” (pages 3-5).\u00a0 Growing Like Me<\/em>, goes on to show\u00a0students how living things change as they grow.\u00a0 Examples include; white blossoms transforming into berries, a blue egg hatching and becoming a robin, and a pollywoogs wiggling in the water turning into big, green frogs.\u00a0 The book concludes, by the author explaining that humans too change as they grow.\u00a0 “Little baby brother, what in the world will you grow up to be?\u00a0 You’ll see!\u00a0 One day you’ll be a big boy-just like me,” (pages 19-21).<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections:
\n<\/strong>Growing Like Me <\/em>is appropriate for use in the kindergarten curriculum.\u00a0 It can be used in several ways.\u00a0 First, it can be used as students begin their investigation of basic needs and life processes of plants and animals.\u00a0 Growing Like Me <\/em>is a great source to use when teaching students about how living things change they grow (VA SOL K.6 a).\u00a0 The book provides several examples of plants and animals changing as they mature including showing how eggs hatch and acorns transform into oak trees.\u00a0 Additionally, this book can be employed when students learn about offspring.\u00a0 This book does a great job through its text and pictures illustrating that\u00a0the offspring of plants and animals are similar, but not identical to their parents and to one another (VA SOL K.6 c).\u00a0 One example in the book shows how baby ducklings, look similar, but not identical to grown ducks.<\/p>\n

Additional Resources:
\n<\/strong>-This animal parent matching game <\/a>is a great and interactive way for teachers to illustrate how animals change as they grow.
\n–The Growing Story<\/a>by Ruth Krauss is another great book teachers may want to share with their classes.
\n-This worksheet<\/a> can be used to reinforce that living things change as they grow.<\/p>\n

General Information:
\nBook: <\/strong>Growing Like Me
\n<\/em>Author: <\/strong>Anne Rockwell
\nIllustrator: <\/strong>Holly Keller
\nPublisher: <\/strong>Harcourt, Inc.
\nPublication Date: <\/strong>2001
\nPages: <\/strong>21
\nGrade Range:<\/strong>K-1
\nISBN: <\/strong>0-15-202202-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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