February's Book of the Month

by John Steptoe

Links for Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters	Cinderella Links	Miscellaneous Links
Africa and Zimbabwe Links	Character Ed Links

LINKS AND LESSON PLANS FOR MUFARO'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS

Lesson Plan-Additional History (Wonderful Background Information)
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/africa/katshe/Additional%20History.htm

Teacher Guide
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/mufaro/mufarotg.html

Lesson Plan-Mapping the Story
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/africa/katshe/

Kid Pix Slide Show
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/isa/ga_gallery/elem_mufaro/mufaro.html

Story Text
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~grjulius/cinderella/mufaro.html

TeacherView: Mufaro'sBeautifulDaughters
http://www.eduplace.com/tview/tviews/m/mufarosbeautifuldaughters.html

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Reading Quiz
If you do not have Shockwave Flash version 5, you MUST install FLASH before playing the game.
Click here to download FLASH
http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/cinderella/mufaro/mufaro2.htm

TWICE TOLD TALES "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters".
4th Grade Spelling and Vocabulary Words
http://btsdmail.brick.k12.nj.us/elemtech/spelling,%20vocab,%20grammar/Grade%204/Unit%206/mufarosbeautifuldaughters.htm

[PDF] Mufaro's Study Guide.p65
Activities for the book that are coordinated with seeing the book acted out. Requires Acrobat Reader to see the files.
http://www.piedpiperpresents.org/express/guides/mufaro.pdf

Mrs. McGowan's First Grade Class
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters.
Excellent ideas shown in pictures. Good for all primary students.
http://viking.stark.k12.oh.us/~ptk1nc/cinderella/mcgowan/mcgowan.htm

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Slide Show
Done in Kid Pix Studio
http://mcps.k12.md.us/departments/isa/ga_gallery/elem_mufaro/mufaro.html

AFRICA AND ZIMBABWE LINKS

Africa: It's Not a Country
Many lesson plans for teaching about Africa
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/africa/aindex.htm

A Celebration of Africa Grade 4
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/499Africa.pdf

CINDERELLA LINKS

An online collection of 15 Cinderella Stories
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510a.html

The traditional Cinderella Story
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/brooklyn/cinderella/index.htm

Tales Similar to Cinderella
From Around the World
http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/cinderel/other.htm

Cinderella Activities Page
Need FLASH to play these games
Games such as Match Cinderella's Shoes, Jigsaw puzzle, Talking Eggs Puzzle, Find the Magic Frogs
http://viking.stark.k12.oh.us/~ptk1nc/cinderella/activities.html

Cinderella, Cinderella, Cinderella
Wonderful Webquest Grades 3-5
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/brooklyn/cinderella/index.htm

Genre Study of the Cinderella Story
http://www.teachnet.org/ntny/lessonplans/nycntindex.htm

Cinderella in the Classroom
Activities and Links
www.oocities.org/Heartland/Estates/4967/cinderella.html

Cinderella WebQuest
http://www.d123.s-cook.k12.il.us/minigrantproj/lsarracino/lsstudent.htm

Our Cinderella Internet Project
Wonderful Ideas shown for primary students--includes pictures of the activities.
www.mrsmcgowan.com/CC/cinderella_project.htm
http://viking.stark.k12.oh.us/~ptk1nc/cinderella/mcgowan/mcgowan.htm

Cinderella Thematic Unit
Primary Grades
http://www.oocities.org/nanaandpapa1/cindy.html

Cinderella in Africa
Early Elementary Unit
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/africa/elieil/

List of Cinderella Stories
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/cinderella.html

Cinderella Stories
Lesson Plans and Resources

http://www.connectingstudents.com/literacy/cinderla.htm

Cinderella Around the World Projects
http://www.salem.k12.va.us/south/cinderella/projects.htm

Related Links to Cinderella
http://www.comsewogue.k12.ny.us/cinderella/links.htm

Cinderella Books
http://www.teacherfeatures.com/book_store/cinderella_books.htm

Cinderella Tales with Book Covers
http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/traditional/cinderella.html

Character Education Links to Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

Character Matters PreK-3
http://www.hplibrary.org/kids/booklists/charactermatters.htm

Character Traits Resource Guide
http://www.lesd.k12.az.us/SL/Mediacenter/charactertraits.1.htm

Helping your child learn responsible behavior with activities
http://www.luke.af.mil/familysupport/HTML/InfoRefer/Learning_Responsible_Behavior.htm

Miscellaneous Ideas

Put dried beans inside cups, then cover them with decorated paper held on by a rubber band.

Older children (six- to eight-year-olds) and parents can make African rain sticks out of paper towel tubes and dried beans. Then you can decorate the rain sticks with glue, glitter and markers.

You might hold a "wedding celebration." You could make music with the instruments and enjoy a "wedding snack."

Created by Carol Meyer
America's Choice Book of the Month
February 1, 2002