Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems
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By: Joyce Sidman
Illustrated by: Beckie Prance
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Copyright Date: 2005 ISBN: 0-618-13547-2
Genre: Children's Poetry Format: Non-Fiction
Major Awards Received:
Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, 2006 Winner United States
Minnesota Book Awards, 2006 Finalist Children's Picture Book United States
Mitten Award, 2005 Finalist Non-Fiction Michigan
Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2006 Honor Book United States
Summary: This book offers the reader a look at aquatic life with explanations about where and how they live in the water. I love fact that the author took the time to add additional information about the poem in the sidebar of the page. This information makes reading the poem even more interesting and also relays information like how painted turtles hibernate and there is a difference between water boatman and backswimmers.
Personal response: I could see myself using this book as an introduction to a science unit on the food chain. The explanations of herbivorous and carnivorous from the poem titled In the Depths of the Summer Pond, is written so students would have a beginning understanding of how the food chain works.
Classroom connections: Using the website http://www.homeschoolshare.com/song_of_the_water_boatman.php , there are a lot of activities that you can do with students. One of my favorites is using the poem In the Depths of the Summer Pond, to make a food chain. This activity requires repetition so students would be able to recite the verses as we go through the poem to fill in the blanks of what eats what.
Illustrated by: Beckie Prance
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Copyright Date: 2005 ISBN: 0-618-13547-2
Genre: Children's Poetry Format: Non-Fiction
Major Awards Received:
Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, 2006 Winner United States
Minnesota Book Awards, 2006 Finalist Children's Picture Book United States
Mitten Award, 2005 Finalist Non-Fiction Michigan
Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2006 Honor Book United States
Summary: This book offers the reader a look at aquatic life with explanations about where and how they live in the water. I love fact that the author took the time to add additional information about the poem in the sidebar of the page. This information makes reading the poem even more interesting and also relays information like how painted turtles hibernate and there is a difference between water boatman and backswimmers.
Personal response: I could see myself using this book as an introduction to a science unit on the food chain. The explanations of herbivorous and carnivorous from the poem titled In the Depths of the Summer Pond, is written so students would have a beginning understanding of how the food chain works.
Classroom connections: Using the website http://www.homeschoolshare.com/song_of_the_water_boatman.php , there are a lot of activities that you can do with students. One of my favorites is using the poem In the Depths of the Summer Pond, to make a food chain. This activity requires repetition so students would be able to recite the verses as we go through the poem to fill in the blanks of what eats what.