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Mice And Beans
Category: Family
Recipe for a Festive Story Time: Mix 1 birthday party, 1 delicious Mexican meal, and lots of children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, and surprise guests into a fun romp. Add comic illustrations, jaunty rhythms, and playful refrains. Spice with mystery, and stir everything into a book.
Serve aloud to large groups or small. Finally, store leftovers on...more
Recipe for a Festive Story Time: Mix 1 birthday party, 1 delicious Mexican meal, and lots of children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, and surprise guests into a fun romp. Add comic illustrations, jaunty rhythms, and playful refrains. Spice with mystery, and stir everything into a book.
Serve aloud to large groups or small. Finally, store leftovers on...more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
February 1st 2005
by Scholastic
(first published 2001)
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Feb 16, 2013
Eric Summers
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Shelves:
birthday-parties,
picture-book,
second-graders,
third-graders,
first-grade,
multilingual,
mice
A grandmother is preparing a birthday party for her youngest grandchild Catalina. Unfortunately, she is a bit scatter brained and sometimes forget things, and on top of that, she keeps losing things. Fortunately, the mice who share her home are not just freeloaders, they lend a hand when needed.
This is a book that you cannot blow through quickly to kill time in your class if you want your kids to enjoy it. It is a fun read-aloud, if you make sure to put plenty of heart into the reading. If you a...more
This is a book that you cannot blow through quickly to kill time in your class if you want your kids to enjoy it. It is a fun read-aloud, if you make sure to put plenty of heart into the reading. If you a...more
Joe Cepeda's oil paint illustrations are beautiful and rich with color! The story is repetitious so young children can follow it easily, and the story is adorable. The story follows Rosa Maria as she prepares for her grandaughter's birthday party throughout the week. This book shows us how hispanics get ready for birthday parties, by what kinds of food and games are present. In the back there is a glossary that shows pronunciations of Spanish words that were sprinkled throughout the text. I like...more
This book is almost identical to Chato and the Party Animals. I like this book because it incorporates both English and Spanish. The only difference is that in this book you don't have to use a dictionary or have to look closely at the context clues to figure out the meaning of the Spanish words. The character says a word or sentence in Spanish, but for the most part always says the English word/s right after.
This book would be great to use to help English speaking students learn Spanish, or Spa...more
This book would be great to use to help English speaking students learn Spanish, or Spa...more
This is a silly little story about a grandmother preparing a birthday party for her grandchild, and the mice who have their own plans in the background. The illustrations are fun and vibrant, sometimes hilarious, and show things from many clever angles. There are repeated scenes where the mousetraps disappear and the grandmother thinks she is just losing her mind. I found it very amusing and the ending has a great payoff, especially if you take in all the details.
This is a cute story of an old woman, Rosa Maria, preparing for a big family party. The readers spend a week with her as she finds the piñata, bakes the rice and beans, and sets up mouse traps that mysteriously disappear. While she plans her party, the mice that live in her house plan their party as well. And when Rosa Maria forgets to stuff the piñata, the benevolent mice quickly come to her rescue. Intermixed throughout the text are Spanish phrases, and the back of the book has a glossary and...more
This is also a wonderful book by Pam Munoz Ryan. This is a book I would read to a future classroom although there wouldnt be any curriculum behind it. I was not the biggest fan of the pictures but all and all they weren't bad. I am glad that I read this book in relations to my author study. Pam Munoz Ryan talks often of her grandmother and I feel that the main character in this book muxt have been inspired by her. That was a very intresting connection to make.
This book tells the story of a grandmother who is planning a party, however she has some uninvited guests who make the planning easier. The mice end up helping the grandma plan the party and do many of the tasks that the grandmother forgot to do. This book uses repetition (and every night she turned off the lights and went to bed) and specific details to engage readers. I would use this in my classroom to teach repetition and how to use specific details.
This book is a great way to link Spanish heritage to literature. It had a few words in Spanish, but they were followed by clues in English to help the reader understand the meaning of the word. It was also an amusing look at what a Spanish birthday party would be like; students could use this to compare their traditional birthday parties to the one in the book.
This book shows that it doesn't matter if you have mice as long as you and your family are together everything else will fall into place. You could use this book for a spanish lesson because it has many spanish words in it. You could use this to show children how to figure out the meaning of a word by looking at teh sentences around it.
This author is a favorite so that is probably why I have this book from the 2003 NABE (National Assn. for Bilingual Education) Conference. It is a delightful book sprinkled with Spanish words and reflecting the Hispanic culture. It's a book to put in our Esperanza Library--in the Founding Board members' section.
I thought it was really neat how the text was written with color and style. I like the concept of the double story. The text talks about Grandma while the pictures tell the story of the mice. There is a great repeat pattern for students to chant along with at the end of each page. This book provides a great opportunity for teaching inferring or predicting. The pictures give hints about what will go missing the following day!
Mar 12, 2012
Jess
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
K-2
Recommended to Jess by:
Mom
Shelves:
z_12,
picture-books
Rosa Maria is planning for her granddaughter's birthday...perhaps some mice are as well.
A happy story with helpful mice and colorful illustrations. Rosa Maria is as kind as you'd like her to be.
Practice reading ahead if you don't speak Spanish. And if you don't, "No importa!" -- a pronunciation guide is include in the back of the book for the 15 or so Spanish words used.
A happy story with helpful mice and colorful illustrations. Rosa Maria is as kind as you'd like her to be.
Practice reading ahead if you don't speak Spanish. And if you don't, "No importa!" -- a pronunciation guide is include in the back of the book for the 15 or so Spanish words used.
Me gusta mucho este livro. Las ilustracíones son vibrantes y bellas. La abuelita y los ratones son dulces y graciosos. Mientras de leyendo imaginaba la voz de mi abuela.
Por favor corregir mis errores. Aprendo Español.
Por favor corregir mis errores. Aprendo Español.
Pam Munoz Ryan is one of my favorite children's authors. This is a cute story about mice that help out the woman by filling a pinata for her. In return for their help, she lets them stay in her home.
This is just another fun book to read to the students. It gives a little information about a cultural background but just talks about how the mice is trying to provide for his family as well.
Age:
Grades 5--YA
Genre:
Realistic fiction
Diversity
Latino
Illustrations:
drawings.
Personal response:
I learned about pinyatas and Latino foods and traditions.
Curricular or programming connections:
Social studies lesson.
Grades 5--YA
Genre:
Realistic fiction
Diversity
Latino
Illustrations:
drawings.
Personal response:
I learned about pinyatas and Latino foods and traditions.
Curricular or programming connections:
Social studies lesson.
Mice and Beans would help in teaching students Spanish. Throughout the book there were different reference to certain words in the language.
This book was good at teaching the days of the week. It was also a good book to teach Spanish to children. I really enjoyed this book!
Oct 13, 2011
Michelle White
added it
This book would be great for Spanish speaking student's. It has some Spanish in it so it would relate to their heratige. I got it from IUS.
Love this book. Teaches children to be caring and open to all animals. Also discusses Latin American culture and cooking.
mice help lady get ready for the party. viv liked it but she was the only one. she likes everything, just about.
I enjoyed this story. The pictures were very interesting too.
This is really fun to read aloud to children.
Good for You! unit 7
Fiction
Fiction
I really like the message of this book
Very cute mice and all.
it was funny and helpful.
this is my fav kid book.
Lots of Fun!
I liked Mice and Beans, I thought it was really cute. My niece and nephew thought it was, and I quote my niece, "kind of boring." Hm. Ok then.
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