{"id":434358,"date":"2010-03-16T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2453"},"modified":"2010-03-16T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:40:19","slug":"teaching-process-skills-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-the-magic-school-bus-gets-all-dries-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/434358","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills with Children\u2019s Literature: The Magic School Bus Gets All Dries Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0The Magic School Bus Gets All Dried Up<\/a>written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen is a fun and adventurous children’s book about survival in the desert.\u00a0 The book starts off in Ms. Frizzle’s class, where things are not normal for long.\u00a0 The students are making a diorama and\u00a0observe that they\u00a0are missing something important, animals that live in the desert!\u00a0Carlos does not think that the cute little stuffed animals that they have put in the diorama will survive the hot, dry desert; and Phoebe is determined to prove him wrong.\u00a0 She decided they are going to for a committee called S.A.D.S. (Students Against Desert Scarcity).\u00a0 “Scarcity because food and water is hard to find in the desert.”\u00a0 Surprising Arnold decides they should take a field trip and the next think you know, the students are boarding the Magic School Bus which turns into an airplane.\u00a0 While the class is at the desert they learn what it would be like to be a Gila Monster, lizard with spikes, a rabbit, and a\u00a0tortoise while comparing and contrasting the ways of survival. It does rain over night and in the morning there are beautiful flowers everywhere in the desert. Ms. Frizzle ends the field trip by saying “All things that live here have special features-adaptations-for survival.”<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/p>\n

This would be a great book to read\u00a0aloud to\u00a0the younger elementary school grades.\u00a0A kindergarten teacher or first grade teacher\u00a0can use this book to help teach and relate the book to scientific investigation, reasoning and logic (SOL: K.1 or 1.1) by observing the different attributes of surroundings, physical properties such as the mountains vs. the desert, predictions and conclusions.\u00a0 If the children in the classroom have difficulty reading, they can looked at the detailed pictures and still understand a majority of the authors content.\u00a0 This is a good book for teachers to stop and ask questions to the students about what they think will happen next, while they are using their processing skills.<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/p>\n

Scholastic<\/a> has a web-site just for The Magic School Bus adventures. Teachers, parents and students can all find something to do! Teachers can find free engaging activities for their students.<\/p>\n

All Kinds of Weather<\/a> is a worksheet that can help students process what activity can go along with each season. Students can process the following as an example: the boys and the kite go along with the wind blowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Preschool coloring pages <\/a>of the desert can help to tie in the climate and what things can be found in the desert after reading the book, such as, cacti.<\/p>\n

A to Z Teacher Stuff<\/a> is a great resource for teachers.\u00a0 It has free lesson plans, coloring activities, games, etc. for the classroom. There is a whole section on the desert and each grade is broken down into sections for easier findings.<\/p>\n

Book: The Magic School Bus Gets All Dried Up<\/a>
\nAuthor: Joanna Cole<\/a>
\nIllustrator: Bruce Degen<\/a>
\nPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
\nPublication Date: 1996
\nPages: 30
\nGrade Range: K-1
\nISBN: 0-590-50831-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The Magic School Bus Gets All Dried Upwritten by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen is a fun and adventurous children’s book about survival in the desert.\u00a0 The book starts off in Ms. Frizzle’s class, where things are not normal for long.\u00a0 The students are making a diorama and\u00a0observe that they\u00a0are missing something important, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}