Ana Galán

Summary:
This book is a switch code book, it says words in English then tells them in Spanish. It starts with simple words like yes and no, then eventually grows to simple sentences.

Personal Reaction:
I love the illustrations in the book, they are very eye catching. I took three years of Spanish so I found it very interesting to see this book. I thought it was an extremely good idea to have in the classroom for when a teacher has a Spanish speaking child. The class can then learn some Spanish show more words and the child can relate them to English words. I'd never seen a code book such as this so I found it pretty amazing.

Classroom Extensions:
1. One way you can involve this book in the classroom is to create cards with Spanish words and then cards with the same meaning in English. Then after reading the story to the class the teacher can split the students up into groups and have them match the cards with the same meanings.
2. Also I think that after reading this book you can have a culture day. Have your students go home and get special things that help tell/explain their cultures. Such as food, decorations, stories, etc. show less

When Billy Bully arrives at the school playground, his animal friends are already there. Cow is enjoying a swing, horse is on the teeter totter and duck is on the slide. Within moments, Billy Bully has taken charge. He chases the others off the slide, grabs toys and he won't wait his turn. One by one, he upsets each of his classmates and loses friends.

Eventually Billy Bully discovers that every one of his classmates has run away from him. There is no one to play with.

Now Billy Bully's show more feeling blue,
Until - he figures out just what to do.

He says to Sheep, "It's you who won."
And now his friends are up to 1!

After counting down his friends, Billy sets to work repairing the harm he has done.

When Billy Bull learns how to play,
all his friends come back to stay.

Best suited to preschool or kindergarten age children, Billy Bully is a rhyming counting book with an important message about bullying and friendship. It includes an Afterword for parents and teachers by Ellen Jacobs, Ph.D., Clinical Social Work show less

Billy is a bully (and illustrated as a bull) who has problems sharing and being the boss of everyone. So he sadly loses all of his friends. Then he realizes his wrong-doings and changes his actions to gain back all of his friends.

Great story for children on bullying and making new friends. I think I'll be using this in my classroom to make a chart of how to treat people and how NOT to treat people. I think you could make it work in many different avenues in your classroom.

For younger show more children it's a great review of types of animals and counting. show less

Summery: "No is No Si is Yes" is a wonderful book that can get young readers learning a little bit about some basic words in spansih. As you read the book each page has an english work and then the english word in spanish. the words get harder and the sentences get longer as you get more into the book.

Personal Review: I really liked reading this book for two main reasons. The first reason is that it is easy. It isn't 3-5 sentences translated, it's only 2-3 words to a page that are show more translated. the second reason that I like this book is because of the illustrations. These pictures are so vivid and bright. Every charactor in the book is odd shaped and I think that's what pulled me in. This book I believe would make learning a knew language fun.

Class Ext. Ideas: 1. Before reading this book I would check the knowledge of my kids and see how many spanish words they know, if any. I would then begin to read the book stopping after each spanish word and see if they know what it is.
2. After reading the book I would test their memory and see if they were paying attention. I would set up stations around the room with numbers at one table, colors at another, and so on and so on. Each kid would have a certain amount of time to see how many spanish words they can match to english words. show less