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Friday, May 2, 2014

Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards

Monkey Business

Now that we`re all done reading the Forest of Reading books at school I went looking for some other books from some of our favourite Blue Spruce authors.  I found Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards.  Edwards was the author of Uncle Wally`s Old Brown Shoe which the kids just loved.  They really enjoyed the illustrations.  So yesterday I pulled out Monkey Business and read it to a grade 2 and 3 class.  They loved it!  The book starts with a definition of an idiom which none of them really understood.  After one or two pages there was a lot of shouts of "I get it!!"   They enjoyed the pictures and especially finding the magic page.  This is a fantastic book for grades 2 to 5.  Monkey Business is a fun way to teach idioms.