Rainbows Never Ends and Other Fun Facts

TITLE: Rainbow Never Ends and Other Fun Facts

Authors: Laura Lyn DiSiena and Hannah Eliot
Illustrator: Pete Oswald

Publisher: S.&S. Little Simon       Publication Date: 2014

Genre: Nonfiction/ Informational   Reading Level: 2^nd grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This story begins by telling how a rainbow is actually a full circle even though we can only view half of it. The book goes on to tell other interesting facts about the sun, the moon, the snow, etc. At the end it discusses rain forests which brings back the idea of rainbows. Each fact discussed is somehow connected.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Each student will receive a slip of paper with moon, sun, snow, rain forest, etc on the paper. By following the book the students will link each slip of paper together in order. The students will then go around the room telling how their part is linked to the one next to them.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Brittany Chastain,Valdosta State University ECSE

 

Blue Sky

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR:Audrey Wood

PUBLISHER:The Blue Sky Press PUBLICATION DATE: 2012

GENRE: Fiction Picture Book  READING LEVEL: Ages 0-4

BRIEF OVERVIEW:This book has two words per page. It is all about a child and his family taking a trip to the beach. They experience rainbows and lightening storms

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY:Students can simulate a rainbow using water and light. From this simulation they can draw a picture and color their rainbows.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION:Brooke Larsen, VSU student