by boot | Mar 14, 2025
Ask students to explain what the title of the book means. Ask: What is anger? Record student responses on chart paper.
by boot | Mar 14, 2025
What do you notice about the illustration on the front cover? Look closely at the girl. How do you think she feels? What makes you think that? Tell me more about why you think that.
by boot | Mar 13, 2025
Jorge Argueta’s cooking poems are all about the fun of cooking and eating together. With your group of children, plan a special feast that might include some of the delicious foods found in these poems. You could make up your own holiday, based on something special to...
by boot | Mar 13, 2025
Food is an important part of many holidays and celebrations. Have the children in your group name some of their favorite holidays and the foods they eat at each one. Ask them why they think these particular foods are tied to the celebration. Have your children form...
by boot | Mar 13, 2025
Organize the children into small groups and ask each group to pick a word they like from the English text of the poem. They can work together to find (or guess) the same word in the Spanish text. Each child could then write the two words together on a sheet of paper...
