Our Journey - Chipo's Gift Book & Lesson Review & Giveaway

~ Apr. 22, 2009
Chipo's Gift Book & Lesson Review & Giveaway

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Chipo's Gift by Deb Troehler, is an adorable book for children ages 4 and up or grades Pre-K-2. It is a story about a curious, South African mopane worm that steps away from the norm and follows her drems. The book is written and illustrated by Troehler who was a special education teacher for fourteen years. The story is lovely and encourages the reader to follow their dreams, you don't know where you will end up. The illustrations are simple yet beautiful and appear to have been originally done with colored pencil.

Here is a brief trailer video for the book.

To enhance the book Troehler has written some lesson plans that could very easily be used in a unit study about Africa or metamorphosis. Some of the lessons are listening comprehension exercises, 1-to-1 correspondence, art-symmetry and science comparing and contrasting insect species. All of the Lesson plans can be found here.
You can purchase the book at Amazon.com by clicking this ad.

Chipo's Gift would be a nice addition to any school curriculum.
Since my children are in high school, I am going to give away my copy of Chipo's Gift along with a bookmark, some of the worksheets and a sample of Mopani wood from South Africa where Chipo lived.

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� Apr. 22, 2009
Chipo's Gift Book by Deb Troehler

Posted by Anonymous

Her book is one of my great grandchildrens favorites.
Best purchase I made in a long time on a GREAT childrens book. We have done some of the study work too.

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� Apr. 23, 2009
Chipo's Gift

Posted by Anonymous

A super review.
I know the author and yes, she did create all the illustrations.

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� Apr. 23, 2009
Chipo's

Posted by Anonymous

I subscribed by blogger. We homeschool too. :)

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� Apr. 23, 2009
Chipo's

Posted by Anonymous

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