Manya Stojic

"Rain" by Manya Stojic is a modern fantasy book that talks about different animals using their senses to tell whether it is raining. Each animal uses a different sense to tell it is raining, except for the lion who uses all his senses. After the rain stops the animals describe all the good and benificial things the rain left behind. Although the rain is gone the animals now it will come again.I would recommend this book to be read aloud to kids in early elementary school. The book does a good job of talking about how our five senses can be used to describe one thing and it also shows children some things that are made possible because of rain such as grass growing.… (more)

Summary:
This is a cute picture book style introducing the many different way to say hello. It has a picture of a child, the word, and the pronunciation of each word, as well as the country/language it originates from.

Personal Reflection:
This is a super cute book, and a wonderful way to introduce children to the many different languages in the world.

Classroom Extension:
1.) I could make flash cards, and try to have the children say the word and tell the language it is in.
2.) I could challenge the children to say hello in a different language throughout the day.… (more)