Friends at School

This is a wonderful text that provides a perfect example or students with disabilities in normative situations. They are not singled out as having a disability or why they are different, they are just shown doing the same things that everyone else is doing. The pictures are all of real kids, so it makes it easy to identify with the images in this book .The classroom displayed looks like any other normal classroom, and so this book can help create a more accepting mindset to young students who have or will have students with disabilities in their classes. At the end of this book, there is a description of each of the students that was depicted and written about in the text. This is where the book explains what kinds of disabilities were show more depicted in this text. By making the disability a sort of after thought, this book makes it so that the equality and strengths of these students are the focus. That would be the big picture in this book. show less

This book introduces school to children. It follows preschoolers around for a day in their life. From the playground to the arts, from homemaking to snacks, children can relate to most of the activities the kids do in this book.

This book can be dangerous! You might see activities that you can't do. We don' have a blender at our daycare and couldn't cook like the children do in the book. We also don't have any pets. Be prepared to answer "Can we do that?" if you read this. It made me think of our kids. As I was reading this book, I was constantly saying "We play on the playground too!" or "They have puzzles like us!" The kids loved that other people do the same things they do, which creates a huge level of believability.

We could show more definitely implement some of the activities done in this book. If the other teacher would be willing to bring a blender, we could have the kids help make their snack instead of eating prepackaged food. We could also make our own book about the activities we do in our class. We could make one big one as a class and then have the kids make individual ones to take home and read with mom and dad. show less

This book excellently models what an inclusive classroom looks like for a preschooler. Each child brings different interests and varying skills and abilities to the classroom.

I had mixed feelings about this book after reading it. I liked this book because it is a non fiction book. The students are able to relate to the students because the pictures are not drawn, they were taken. I do not like this book because the writing style seems boring and uninteresting. The main purpose of the book is to share the accounts of the children during their day.

In the book Friends at School children can learn about how to be a friend to others at school, and what a day at school might look like. The story has photographs that show a diverse group of children doing different activities throughout their day together at school. The author talks about what the children are doing and ways they can help each other out. The words are a mature syntax, but easy enough for children to understand, with a few new words in there to discuss and teach.

I liked this story. I liked the illustrations in the book because it shows how everyone can be friends even when they play different things at school. I also liked the glossary chart in the back of the book because it showed all the character’s names and the different games they play in school. The big message of this story is that not every child has everything in common with one person and a child can have more than one friend.

Real-life photographs depicting children of different ethnicity and abilities. Text talks about the children and the different activities they encounter during their school day.