Category: Children Publisher: Dawn Publications
ISBN-10: 1883220432
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 48
Copyright: Jan 1 1996
There is one chapter for each season, including poetry, scientific text, seasonal projects such as crafts and conservation ideas, as well as recipes for fun seasonal foods children can make.
This is an ideal classroom book. It can be read simply for the poetry, or used to create a seasonal unit. Each verse is illustrated with realistic colored pencil drawings, and accompanied with smaller text covering scientific facts about the season and animal featured.
Learn how to build a bird feeder, create a wildflower garden,make a fruit shake,or a pine and sage sachet. Make a simple bird bath or a solar oven, learn about winter animal tracks or how to decorate a live Christmas tree that will feed your animal neighbors.
Excerpt
Fall
Gray Squirrel can tell by crispy air
That fall is on its way.
She gathers ripe acorns to prepare
For a future hungry day.
Fall's bright colors scatter and blow
While crops are gathered in.
Each busy creature seems to know
Harsh storms will soon begin.
Wild birds fly south in flocks together
Across a darkened sky.
They visit lands with warmer weather
To find a food supply.
Black bear fattens up
to settle in
As leaves turn golden-brown,
She finds a place to make her den
Where an Oak has fallen down.
Shifty Characters, invites early readers into the world of change from a lyrical, language arts point of view. These shifty characters have the ability to reposition and re-invent themselves without adding or omitting a single letter. They go about t
