Another great Junie B book. I like how Junie B describes how kids can think about cheating without realizing they are. I always think her thoughts are spot on with how kids really think. And this is just as funny as usual. I love Junie B.
Me and Zola really liked this one! A great lesson about cheating for kids and about how to take accountability for one’s actions despite the consequences. I love that Junie B. earnestly learns these kinds of lessons bc they inspire my niece to learn them as well. :)
Junie B. Jones is always getting into mischief one way or another. In the book "Junie B., First Grader Cheater Pants," Junie B. can't help but to "borrow" one of her classmates homework for the day. This causes Junie B. to face the consequences, but also makes her question what cheating is exactly. In the end, Junie B. learns a tough life lesson and earns her teacher's trust all over again.
Barbara Park does a great job in really capturing Junie B.'s personality and character in all of her Junie B. Jones books. She writes each book through Junie B.'s eyes and tells it exactly like how a first grader would think and speak. For example, "After that, I quick sat down. And I stuffed the paper back into my desk... I felt shaky and sickish inside. Very slow, I took out my paper again" (pg. 22). As seen here, Park definitely knows how to let readers get inside a young child's mind through her vocal and descriptive writing. Any person reading this book can relate to Junie B. in some way since they get a strong sense of what Junie B. is like throughout the whole book. I would be sure to use any of the Junie B. books to teach students about developing characters in their own writing. I could use a specific chapter or part of a chapter to lead students into the lesson.
I liked that Junie B. Jones lucks out, but then lucks down. She goes from 100 luck to 0 luck. It was cool to think about how lucky and then unlucky she was, and made me think about my own luck rating.
I didn't read a bunch of Junie B. Jones books when I was younger, but I still got to know this spunky character. I read this one for a children's literature course I'm taking. I have to say, this is one of the better books in the series because Junie B. actually learns a lesson and doesn't get away with her brattiness and bad behavior. This is one I wouldn't mind reading to my children or even my future students because it goes over what cheating means, and how important it is to not cheat.
The reason I loved reading Junie b jones is because it is funny and it taught Junie a lesson so she could not cheat again and the girl in her class was funny too she always talks about how she always gets A and she talks about how she is always on time and she says she knows everything that is happening that day Junie doesn't like but she still cheated on her homework Junie is so funny in that book and I loved it because she was always saying how she feels about that person,thing,and may the girl that sits by her in class and they had a spelling test she didn't study for it but she tried the word was fox,box,and would but she didn't know how to spell it she tried the first time and she spelled it like this wood but good her teacher mr. Scary gave them a sentence so she noticed it was wrong and she kept trying her friend that sits by her saw her struggling so he helped her with the word and she copied it they both couldn't go to sleep because he told her the answer and she copied it the next day they told the mr.scary and they got a zero and that is my favorite part I have another favorite part and it is when they had to write poems they wanted to write about their selves so they wrote pallies do you understand what they meant they were talking about how they are so much best friends they were only four people but they were close friends and that is why they wrote pallies because it is about them and that was my other favorite part The end