Title: Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
Illustrator: Ashley Wolff
Readability Score: Kindergarten
Genre: Poetry
Sub genre: N/A
Theme: Students getting ready for their first day of kindergarten
Primary and secondary characters: The primary character is Miss Bindergarten, who is the kindergarten teacher. The secondary characters are all of her students, ranging from Adam the alligator, Jessie the jaguar, to Zach the zebra. The characters consist of animals and each letter of the alphabet represents an animal that coincides with that same letter.
Awards: N/A
Date of publication: 1996
Publishing company: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN number: 0-590-81931-3
Summary: This clever poem is a play on words with the alphabet and animals. As Miss Bindergarten, the kindergarten teacher, is getting ready for her first day of teaching her class, the poem runs through the alphabet. It begins with the letter A, and showing what Adam the alligator does to get ready for his first day of school. As each of the different animals has their own way of preparing for their first day, it shows us how each student can be different in how they prepare for school.
I liked this poem because it can be used for different things. The alphabet is obviously a good tool that was used in this poem because it was associated with different animals that made up the first letter of each animal. Children can gain an appreciation for learning the alphabet if they see their favorite animals or if they see something that a certain one does that is similiar to how they get ready for school as well. I also was reminded that each animal was different and that made me think of the classroom as a whole. The students are all going to be diverse and come from different backgrounds. They may have different ways of preparing for school or their first day, and this poem can be a good ice breaker on the first day of school perhaps.
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