Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Blue Back Book (Dr. Seuss - Blue Back Book)

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For now, Brown eek eeks like a squeaky shoe. A rooster crows. Mr. Brown crows, his eyes still shut securely. He is not aware of his own actions. Or he doesn't want to be. Why? How about you?" The first occurrence of the question. The first invitation. Why are you in the bushes, Mr. Brown? What does this cow know that it should fear you, prepare to run, and put its tail in an unlikely direction? Begin the session by reminding students of the sights and sounds they explored on the Internet in the previous session. Oh man! I just loved how Dr. Seuss is able to make a book about sounds be so creative and fun to read! When I read this book as a child, I always had fun repeating the various sounds that Mr. Brown made, such as making buzzing sounds like a bee, making popping noises like a cork, making sounds like “DIBBLE DIBBLE DOPP DOPP” to represent the sound of rain falling and making noises like thunder and lightning. Dr. Seuss’ artwork is as creative as ever as Mr. Brown is mostly clad in a brown outfit which goes well with his name. I also loved seeing his facial expressions whenever he was making sounds, like having his eyes squint whenever he is making sounds that are hard to do, like a hippopotamus chew gum! We have both a board book version and hardcover copy. The board book version has been invaluable and relatively indestructible for those early years. The board book is in a slightly abbreviated form than the hard copy. When we recently reread the hard copy, my older boys pointed out the differences. (I was having too much fun making all the noises to notice.)

El Sr. Brown es fantástico imitando sonidos! No solo puede hacer pop pop como un corcho obzzz bzzz como un abeja, también puede imitar otros sonidos raros… como el mua del beso de un pez o el chomchom de un hipopótamo que masca chicle. Ideal para fomentar los juegos imaginativos a la vez que los niños aprenden a leer, ¡El Sr. Brown hace MUUU! ¿Podrías hacerlo tú? hará que los pequeños no paren de reírse (¡excepto cuando mastiquen!). Well, Mr Brown is a farmer, and the book basically has him go through the various sounds that animals make. Mind you, this is from an English point of view, which means that all of the sounds are the sounds that the animals make if they happened to speak English. The reason I say that is because when you go to other languages you suddenly discover that the sounds that animals make are different. Sure, the sounds don’t change, but the interpretation of the sounds do.

Materials and Technology

Cinquain (pronounced "cin-kain") is a five-line poetic form, using a wavelike syllable count of two-four-six-eight-two. Another fun writing and drawing activity for Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?is creating a list of objects and people and the sounds that they make.

Overall, “Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?” is a fantastic book for anyone who loves reading about sounds and loves reading Dr. Seuss books in general! I would recommend this book to children ages three and up since there is nothing inappropriate in this book. In May of 1954, Life published a report concerning illiteracy among school children. The report said, among other things, that children were having trouble to read because their books were boring. This inspired Geisel's publisher, and prompted him to send Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important, asked him to cut the list to 250 words (the publishers idea of how many words at one time a first grader could absorb), and write a book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of the words given to him published The Cat in the Hat, which went on to instant success. Now Mr. Brown talks to the inanimate. Pop pop. But who put the bottle into the air? Did Mr. Brown? His eyes are again closed. There is someone off screen. There must be. Is it the narrator? Mr. Brown is a sound-making wonder! He can not only pop pop like a cork and bzz bzz like a bee, but he can also make some very unusual sounds . . . like the mua of a goldfish kiss and the chom chom chom of a hippo chewing gum. A great way to encourage imaginative play while learning to read, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? will keep kids laughing (when they’re not chom chom choming)!

Type

Discuss the structure of a cinquain, as outlined below, as students look at a copy of the graphic organizer.