Friday, September 4, 2015

A Text to Use When Teaching Habitats

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
 
When teaching habitats, having a variety of interesting, well-illustrated non-fiction texts enhances the unit and helps engage students, and, most importantly, it helps students gain further appreciation for the Greatness of Allaah.

Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea is a non-fiction text that will provide children with a generous, but not overwhelming, amount of fascinating information about the creation of Allaah, while helping them understand that Allaah is al-Khaliq.

Read this review and you will see why having this book in your homeschool classroom/ classroom will enhance your ocean or animals unit. 

"...Steve Jenkins offers young readers a quietly stunning story about the world below the watery surface in Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea. With his incredible paper collage illustrations of sea creatures and informative text, Jenkins manages to plumb the unfathomable depths of our oceans for the age 5-9 set in this perfect read-aloud and look closely book. Down, Down, Down captures the vastness, complexity and mysteriousness of the deep without over-simplifying the new research and astonishing discoveries. This oceanography lesson unfolds as a story in which the reader descends from the blue surface down nearly 36,000 feet (that’s seven miles down!) to the Marianas Trench, while meeting Flying Squids and Loosejaw Stoplight Fish along the way. This is an enchanting and informative choice for kids who loved the classic illustrations of Eric Carle, Lois Ehlert and Leo Lionni as pre-schoolers, but are ready to bump up to a nonfiction read..." ~~Amazon.com

Here is a peek at some of the paper collage illustrations:

Source: Amazon.com
  
Source: Amazon.com
What books do you use when teaching habitats?

2 comments:

  1. Aslamwalikum umme we have a small madarsa school of children I like your workbooks of surah we don't take money from kids and we have different books for them and we teachers also don't take a single money but we have more than twenty kids for sub junior class we have junior and senior alsoso whatever we prepare syllabus we take exactly that prints money but as per your terms I can't give this books to them it Wil be great help if you give permission to share your material with them but we are taking xerox money wallah not a single money more than that xerox money please inform me if not permitted I will not give to students.

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  2. Waalaykum assalam,

    If you can kindly use this link,http://ummannuman.weebly.com/contact-the-author.html, to contact me I will be happy to answer your question insha'Allaah. I want to make sure I understand the last part of your comment correctly insha'Allaah.

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