Teacher’s Guide for Iguana September-October 2013

Teacher’s guide prepared by Franziska Green, a journalist writing regularly for various magazines about health and parenting; in her free time she also writes children’s books. Lola y el Monstruo, page 2 Ask your students to identify and highlight the parts of the text that relate to the four illustrations. The first illustration: En una gigantesca bola de cristal colocada en el centro, se podía ver la imagen del niño elegido y posteriormente también cuando se transportara al monstruo directo a su habitación. Second illustration: La pesadilla era real, pensó la niña. El olor de la bestia y sus gruñidos espantaban cualquier duda al respecto. OR Una y otra vez el monstruo intentó asustarla, pero cuanto más lo intentaba más fuerte era el hipo de Lola y menos intenso su miedo. Fourth illustration: Con la rapidez de un gato salto! de su cama, se acerco! a la lamparita y sin pensarlo mucho la desconecto!. (Skill set: Reading Literature, Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.) Hermosa y majestuosa (Rusia) page 6 Ask your students to read the article, then have them write a postcard or email to a friend about their imaginary trip to Russia. (Skill set: Writing. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.) Un científico con alma de artista (page 8) The artist Jeremy Guerrero makes things out of glass. Aside from paint, what other types of materials can art be made of? For example, sand, wood, metal, clay, food, material, grass – almost anything! Make sand art with your students. Use glue to make patterns on paper then sprinkle colored sand on top, let it dry, then add more glue, another color, and so on. (You can buy colored sand, or make your own by soaking sand in food coloring overnight, then letting it dry out.) (Skill set: exploring different art mediums, self expression.) Frágil pero resistente, El Vidrio (page 10) Ask your students to look at the photos – where is the glass in each one? Read the text, then find: Three examples of objects that utilise glass. Por ejemplo, el telescopio, el microscopio, las ventanas de casas y edificios, los parabrisas de los autos, los anteojos, los televisores, las computadoras, las tabletas y los celulares. (Skill set: Reading Informational Text) La Llorona de la isla de Ometepe (page 12) Find phrases that describe weather or surroundings in the text. Por ejemplo, Bajo el cielo estrellado.El cielo se cargaba de más nubes grises. Los relámpagos azotaban. Las gotas de lluvia empezeban a sentirse. Luego rompieron en lluvia recia bañando toda la isla. Las gotas rodaban cuesta abajo por los cerros empedrados. Las nubes también lloraban.

(Skill set: Reading Literature.) El pirata Patapolo (page 15) Read the poem. Ask the students: What do pirates usually look for? Answer:Treasure. Have your students make their own treasure map, based on the classroom and add details of the objects in the classroom. Swap maps and find the treasure. (Skill set: Reading Literature; team work; visual spatial abilities) Mi amiga la computadora (page 29) Read the poem. Ask your students to think about all the things they use computers for today. Por ejemplo, reading, writing, finding information, communicating, playing. Then ask them to think about what people did 60 or 70 years ago before computers existed in every household. Have them ask their grandparents or other relatives, as well as use the internet to do their research. What did people read? Books, newspapers, magazines or pamphlets. How did they write? With paper and pencils, or pens. In what ways did people communicate? Letter, phone, telegram, face to face! How did people gather information? Word of mouth, stories passed on through the generations, libraries, museums, radio. (NB: Television only became common in the 1960s.)How did they find news about the world? The radio, newspaper, noticeboards. How did people play? Cards, chess and other board games were popular, as were some games still played today – Twister, bowling, pool. Even play dough existed back then! (Skill set: Reading Literature.)