Pancakes, Pancakes! is a great book to read aloud and then cook pancakes with the students. In the story, a boy wants pancakes for breakfast, but his mother says he has to help to get the ingredients. Since the setting is in a time long ago, the boy has a lot of work to do to get the flour, eggs, milk and butter. This book provides a great opportunity to compare how the boy in the book made pancakes and how the students made pancakes in the classroom. Eric Carle is a favourite author in our classroom and we compared this book with another of our favourites, Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?.
I found this book, One Shoe Blues, a few years ago and I use it every year to teach my students. I love blues music and B. B. King is the famous ambassador of the blues. Here he is the main character in a story where he has lost his shoe. There is a DVD that comes with the book and the short movie provides another opportunity to show children alternative ways to tell a story. In this case, the story is in a book, a song and a movie. The supporting characters are sock puppets and they are the comic foils to B. B King's laid back singing and guitar playing. I used this book as a jumping off point for our new class project where the students will make sock puppets next week.
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