Well, if you've been looking at Margaret Hillert primers, you're probably tired of hearing about me gush about how great her little books are. But they really are good.
"I Like Things" is a fine example of one book that can be tied into other projects. It's a story about a little boy and 'collections'. It starts out which him playing with buttons. He sorts them by color and size and shape and finally makes a necklace out of them for his mother.
I like things.
Big things.
Little things.
Red and yellow
and blue things.
Look here.
Look here.
Here is something I like.
Something pretty.
Look what I can do.
Red, blue, yellow.
I can do it this way.
This is fun.
Following this he looks at a stamp collection with his father.
Oh, look.
Here are good ones.
Good ones for my book.
It is fun to do this,
but I have to work at it.
I find out things, too.
I like to do it.
More types of collecting follow -- shells, rocks, trading cards -- which makes this a very 'rich' book to have in the library because it can be tied in to so many activities. Children can be motivated to start collections --fall leaves, buttons, etc. -- and with all the sorting this book can be mixed in with a math exercise.
"I Like Things" is a fine example of one book that can be tied into other projects. It's a story about a little boy and 'collections'. It starts out which him playing with buttons. He sorts them by color and size and shape and finally makes a necklace out of them for his mother.
I like things.
Big things.
Little things.
Red and yellow
and blue things.
Look here.
Look here.
Here is something I like.
Something pretty.
Look what I can do.
Red, blue, yellow.
I can do it this way.
This is fun.
Following this he looks at a stamp collection with his father.
Oh, look.
Here are good ones.
Good ones for my book.
It is fun to do this,
but I have to work at it.
I find out things, too.
I like to do it.
More types of collecting follow -- shells, rocks, trading cards -- which makes this a very 'rich' book to have in the library because it can be tied in to so many activities. Children can be motivated to start collections --fall leaves, buttons, etc. -- and with all the sorting this book can be mixed in with a math exercise.
THE TECHNICAL BITS:::
64 unique words
The toughest words are: yellow, something, and friend. The rest can be found in the standard Margaret Hillert list (hover here).
Highly Recommend
Pam
Somewhere in the X-burbs
- Accelerated Reading level : 1.0
- Paperback: 31 pages
- Publisher: Modern Curriculum Press (January 1981)
- ISBN-10: 0813656028
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