The other day in class we investigated
different authors. The author that we have investigated was Eric Carle. He was
born in 1929 in Syracuse, New York. Eric Carle design, illustrate and write
children’s books since 1969. At the moment, he has written more than 70 books
and has sold more than 125 million copies over the world. He has a museum in Massachusetts, where are the originals drawings of his books, it has a part to drawing and we can read all his books. His most famous books
are:
The Very Hungry
Caterpillar, where we can see the butterfly life cycle (egg stage, caterpillar
stage, pupa stage and butterfly stage). The story is based principally in the caterpillar
stage, when it eats one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries, five
oranges, one piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one pickle, one slice
of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, one
slice of watermelon and one green leaf in a week. Finally it passes to the pupa
stage and then emerging like a butterfly.
The Grouchy Ladybug is a book that helps
the kids to learn the hours and other contents. It is about a ladybug that is looking for a fight
with someone big enough, it meets someone different in different hours. At the
end, the ladybug gets its comeuppance and begins to be more sympathetic. The story has a parallel structure where the ladybug repeats the
same question and the answer of the animals is the same too.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?
is a good book to work the colours and different animals. It has a repetitive
structure, it repeats the colour of the animal, the animal and what do you see?
along the entire story. This book has two variables what are called Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you hear? and
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, what do you see?;
the first one related with the zoo animals and sounds, and the other one
related to endangered species.
I
think that these books can be used at school to teach different contents like
colours, structures and days of the week, they can be related to other subject,
not only to English. I add the link to the Eric Carle blog and official page.
Hello Patri!
ReplyDeleteI never hear anything about this author until Practicum II when my tutor show me Eric's books.In one hand I think that it the best author for early stages of primary, because of the structure of his books, the repetition, the pictures and the easy language. In the other hand we have to thanks all the internet community that creates videos and songs to complement his books.
As I was saying at the beginning of the comment, my tutor and me were working with "Brown bear" in 2nd of primary and students love it.
Hi Patri! First of all, congratulation with you great post. I agree with the idea of using her books in class. I believe that knowing the context of the author can help you understand many factors of their works. But also I think that it a good idea use the book same structure for student of first cycle. I encourage you to come into my blog. My last post is about Beatrix Potter, she is very interesting also. I'm sure you know it because there are cartoon of his books, do you remember Peter rabbits? If you not, you can discover in my blog :)
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