Post Spring Break-

I am just coming to the end of my spring break, and I have started some much over do time for homework. I just recently finished reading "Becoming Naomi Leon." I am not sure how I feel about it, I don't really see how it relates to the class, except for the fact that Naomi and her family are Mexican/Spanish. I mean, the book did focus on their families and what they find important and their holidays/religions and such, but I also felt it more focused on the situation with he mother and taking the child and not wanting the other soon because he was a little different. Now that I have typed that all out, I suppose the book does relate to this class! It is a diverse book with many different aspects that children of different cultures might experience. Well, since I just contradicted myself! That's that, I will be interested to talk and write about this book for my questioning the text, although at this point I have no clue what I'm going to ask because I still am not sure how I want to approach this book. Anyways, this past week I volunteered in my friend's mom's classroom in Detroit. She is a 3rd grade teacher and during silent reading I noticed many of the children were reading books that were written in Spanish, as many of the students in the class are Hispanic. I thought that was very interesting, because everything is taught to them in English. Also I wanted to post about what I want to do my final project on. I wanted to focus on the group of children's books that focus on Obese and overweight children. I think weight is a very important aspect of a child's feeling about themselves and how others view them, even more so then race, culture, etc. I feel passionate about this topic, and hope that I can find books that I can do this on! We will see how many books there are once I check out the library. By the way..has any one's face book changed over to the new version! Mine just did and I must say, I am not a fan!