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Squirrel's New Year's Resolution
by
Pat Miller
"Do you know how to make a resolution?" Squirrel asked Bear. "Is it like making a snack?"
Bear laughed. "Resolutions are more important than snacks."
"More important than snacks?" said Squirrel. "What is a resolution?"
Squirrel knows that New Year's Day is a great day for making resolutions! But what does it mean to make a resolution, anyway? As she makes visits around the f...more
Bear laughed. "Resolutions are more important than snacks."
"More important than snacks?" said Squirrel. "What is a resolution?"
Squirrel knows that New Year's Day is a great day for making resolutions! But what does it mean to make a resolution, anyway? As she makes visits around the f...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
September 1st 2010
by Albert Whitman & Company
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Squirrel hears on the radio that New Year's Day is a great day to make resolutions but doesn't know what one is. Once she finds out, she is determined to make a resolution of her own, but she can't think of anything. Along the way, she helps several of her friends, and realizes by the end of the story that she can use her natural inclination toward helping her friends to resolve to help someone every day. While the story is a little on the preachy side, it is a good conversation star...more
Squirrel hears on the radio that New Year's Day is a great day to make resolutions but doesn't know what one is. Once she finds out, she is determined to make a resolution of her own, but she can't think of anything. Along the way, she helps several of her friends, and realizes by the end of the story that she can use her natural inclination toward helping her friends to resolve to help someone every day. While the story is a little on the preachy side, it is a good conversation star...more
This would be a good book to use for your students (K-5) at the end of the semester in December to talk about New Year's Resolutions. This book does a good job of explaining clearly of what it is and how you can learn to come up with one of your own. For an activity AND extension, you could have the children come up with their own New Year's Resolutions and have them write about it and how they are going to accomplish it. This is great for character building, making goals for THEMSELVES, and wor...more
Who: 1st to 3rd
This was a fun, cute story that introduces what a New Year's Resolution is. The animal characters in the story (bear, turtle, mole, etc.) are all happily illustrated and portrayed as helpful and kind to eachother. In the end Squirrel realizes he made a resolution after all "Your actions are better than words. It looks like you resolved to help someone every day." Good way to start the conversation: How can we help people each day?
This was a fun, cute story that introduces what a New Year's Resolution is. The animal characters in the story (bear, turtle, mole, etc.) are all happily illustrated and portrayed as helpful and kind to eachother. In the end Squirrel realizes he made a resolution after all "Your actions are better than words. It looks like you resolved to help someone every day." Good way to start the conversation: How can we help people each day?
Squirrel has a hard time coming up with a New Year's Resolution especially when all his animal friends have already made theirs. When he begins to help out with each of them, he finds he has made a resolution without even thinking about it.
Cute New Year's story to help children understand the meaning of the word "Resolution". The author uses a great way to explanin the word-“a resolution is a promise you make to yourself to be better or to help others.”
New Years Resolutions should not just be for grown ups. Wonderful book to share with your children/students to get them thinking about how they can choose to do better with the new year.
Cute illustrations and a charming story about a kind-hearted squirrel trying to think of a New Year's rsolution.
themes: animals, friends, New Year's, resolutions
themes: animals, friends, New Year's, resolutions
Nov 09, 2011
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This is a cute mentor text that illustrates resolutions. Great to read aloud and then have students set their reading resolutions/goals. Ala Donalyn. :-)
eh...ok
Lesson ideas:
Obviously..first book after the winter break. Talk about making resolutions. check on them later. Write and illustrate
Lesson ideas:
Obviously..first book after the winter break. Talk about making resolutions. check on them later. Write and illustrate
I like stories when animals are like humans and have a community, like a diner and a library. This was a good way to talk about New Years resolutions.
Cute book about helping friends which introduces kids to the idea of a new year's resolution.
Very cute book to read to celebrate the beginning of a new year.
Squirrel wants to make a resolution for the new year. She visits her friends to find they have all already made resolutions and are trying to keep them. I like how this book shows how much impact Squirrel has on her friends, without her realizing it. Also, I love how Bear the librarian is the first friend she visits!
Reminds me of the girl who gave up watermelon for Lent...
Great book to share at the beginning of every New Year.
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For a young primary group. Nice to introduce the concept that a resolution can be about self improvement but also about resolving to help others
Squirrel cannot think of a New Year's resolution until she realizes that by helping her friends, she has made one after all. www.hcpl.net
Squirrel helps others as he tries to think of a good New Year's resolution. K-2.
Remember this for teachers looking for stories about the new year
Jan 15, 2013
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