Free Tales Of The Shimmering Sky: Ten Global Folktales With Activities (Williamson Tales Alive Books) Ebooks Online
Ten magical folktales inspired by our vast and shimmering sky are combined with fascinating facts to take children on an ethnic journey exploring the sun, moon, stars, seasons, and weather. Story-related activities draw kids into cultures, arts and crafts, cooking, science, math, games and history! Full-color art and 100 "how-to-do-it" illustrations.
Lexile Measure: 890L (What's this?)
Series: Williamson Tales Alive Books
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Williamson Publishing Company (May 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1885593015
ISBN-13: 978-1885593016
Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Age Range: 8 and up
Grade Level: 3 and up
This collection of ten folktales from around the world (Native America, Slovakia, India, Europe, Canada, Polynesia, Mexico, Africa, and Scandinavia) focuses on the sky--heavenly bodies, the seasons, and the weather. In addition to Milord's colorful and creative stories, this resource also contains background information, science experiments, hands-on projects, games, arts and craft activities, and recipes. Children are invited to learn about the mysteries of the sky through exciting activities such as baking a batch of celestial pretzels, solving a lunar calendar puzzle, making a Beaufort scale to estimate wind speed, and flying an origami-style paper kite.
My mom has the other book Tales Alive and liked it so much that she asked if I could find this one. She says this one has more stories and she likes it more. I think anyone who liked Tales Alive, will like this one and I recommend it those. It really helped my mom and little brother bond, reading to one another from there.
All three Williamson "Tales alive!" books are great but of the three this is my favourite. The stories chosen are delightful and cover a range of sky related themes, eg. the sun, moon, stars, weather. The stories were not always the best known from a region (I noticed this with the Polynesian entry as that's my part of the world), and this was a definite plus for me. The activities are great - I work with slightly older children than the book is aimed at but could easily adapt them to suit.
Book was in condition as promised and arrived promptly. Great transaction - would definitely use this seller again =)
A good source for teachers to find stories about the myths and legends of the constellations.
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