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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 28, 2012 16:42:54 GMT -5
Probably precisely that!
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Post by supprazz on Feb 10, 2012 4:04:47 GMT -5
I wonder why they put in that one of the duckings died? Maybe to show to kids the reality (that often times, one duck *does* die or many do not survive) so that if it ever happens to them, they're not surprised? Death is something nobody can escape from or may feel the pain from, no matter what age. It was very sad, but this has happened a few times in the series.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Apr 24, 2012 16:22:53 GMT -5
For some reason, this is one of my favourite Spring-time LS books. Maybe because of the cute cover? I've mentioned it before, but Karen looks high on the cover (which I love!) I know she's supposed to look whimsical or longing for the ducks or whatever, but it looks like Ms. Colman maybe slipped her with a "special brownie" before the class trip to Carnegie Lake I understood why the school wanted to keep everyone away from the ducks. I got the impression that the courtyard was totally surrounded by the school, so that the doors to come of the classrooms opened up around it from all sides? What if one of the kids hurt the ducks? I wouldn't want to take chances, especially since some kids can be mean or fickle.
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Post by supprazz on May 5, 2012 2:33:33 GMT -5
You're so wrong for that! LOL but it seems like Ms. Colman's kids got away with going in the courtyard more than the other kids....and that Karen was given way too much attention by the whole school for finding Feather, like she's some kind of hero geez!
I liked reading about all the spring sightings, arts & crafts, poems, etc.
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Post by anzuhana on Nov 27, 2012 21:16:16 GMT -5
I did like reading about the ducks since there are ducks living not far from where I live though they're all grown and I've never seen any baby ducks.
Good point. You'd think they'd get suspicious because of it and not accept it.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Dec 1, 2012 8:42:26 GMT -5
Yes, very spring time ish! I can barely remember this one now
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Post by supprazz on Dec 1, 2012 22:10:40 GMT -5
Crayon form for the car? Well Karen skipped a grade lmaoooo
I would fill out Scholastic orders myself though and then my mom would give me the cheque or cash to add since I did it through school
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 1, 2012 22:44:07 GMT -5
^ Very nice! I love Scholastic book orders though. Are you saying that you filled out what you want and your Mom just filled out a cheque for that? That's awesome! My Nana was always good about book orders but my sister and I were always limited on what we could buy.
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Post by supprazz on Dec 6, 2012 9:03:03 GMT -5
Yeah, she liked the fact I read so much as a kid and enabled me, and it led to owning every bsc book at one point till I stopped buying, which lead to spending excessively later on on other things haha but I was limited to books, I couldn't buy merchandise and odds and ends like that...I could have gotten the BSC package too, but it wouldn't have made sense cause I had most of those books already, and my friend who got them for the books didn't want the merchandise and gave a lot of it to me!
But I think we filled it out together, we'd go through the whole catalog before filling out the chart at the back, so she could approve it. BSC was a no-brainer if several newer books were for a good deal or something went on sale in advance though I would mostly buy a new BSC at the start of a month.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 6, 2012 14:11:48 GMT -5
I used to get so excited seeing that light-brown-and-red Scholastic box. Sometimes, the teacher would wait until the end of the day to hand out the goods and I would get sooo impatient!
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Post by supprazz on Dec 8, 2012 8:27:13 GMT -5
I knowwwwwww!!! I would come back from lunch break, see the box on the desk and go EEEEE (with my indoor voice) and felt excited about being at school for once.
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Post by zoar3 on Apr 25, 2013 17:16:18 GMT -5
This book reminded me a little of all my rubber ducks. ETA: I have limited my collection since this original post but this book will always remind me of them. If the toy car was really $23.95 altogether, why would Mr. Simpson's company send it without any payment? It might have been one thing had the mail-lady requested cash payment on delivery of the car but she didn't. I did like how Lisa said, "now let's forget about the car and enjoy dinner," after explaining why what Andrew and Karen had did was wrong. She wasn't holding any grudges so to speak and that was very cool, probably because that would not have been the case for me when I was little. I also liked the story about the ducks--I thought it was awesome that Mr. Counts (the librarian) and Ms. Colman let the finished book go to press with the spelling errors just as the kids' had originally written it. It truly was by and for kids--very cool. Was Carnegie Park ever mentioned again, btw? ETA: I don't think this park or the KIMCC trip was ever talked of again!
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Post by supprazz on May 2, 2013 9:26:48 GMT -5
I like the way you put that about letting the kids be kids, cause I used to get annoyed with the wrong spelling, especially cause miss grade skipper Karen also had errors , and not getting corrected while writing rough drafts beforehand was defeating the purpose of teaching.
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Post by wenonah4th on Oct 10, 2014 7:39:10 GMT -5
I noticed the illustrations were more like the earlier ones of Karen.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 26, 2022 20:56:50 GMT -5
I was amused that Andrew broke the car within 30 seconds of playing with it. It was supposed to be Seth's gift for Father's Day, lol. Karen also forged Lisa's signature on her order letter. What an odd company. I hated poetry units in school. Haikus were the only thing that I somewhat enjoyed writing. I enjoyed Karen's. The brown earth is warm from the spring sunshine. Flowers grow and bloom, then wilt. One fuzzy duckling was too little and got sick. Goodbye. We miss you. Deep stuff, there. She kinda acted like she hated her husband in this one. The class was writing down duck names when Ricky suggested "Stinky." Karen got mad at him, and they stuck their tongues out at each other. Name suggestions were: Karen, Jemima. Ricky, Stinky. Nancy, Momma Duck. Hannie, Quacker. It didn't say who picked the winner, Feather. Karen liked the word "grout" because it sounded like "growl." I pictured her saying it over and over annoyingly like Tony the Tiger. I don't think I've ever read Make Way for Ducklings. How do you pronounce "Oack?" Oh-ack? I hate that name. How are you going to pick that one and leave out "Quack?"
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