Ladies and Gentlemen,
This post is for you to comment regarding your connections from "Good Families Don't" by Robert Munsch. Robert Munsch is a very interesting author. He drafts his stories by telling them hundreds of times (for up to three years) before he ever writes them. Does telling a story out loud help you to write it better? Mr. Munsch thinks so. When he tells his stories, he has lots of audience participation! Talk about interactive reading!
Here is a link to his website. When you search for Robert Munsch, you can find all sorts of great things, like this world record! Here's a link to an interview with Robert Munsch.
OK - Last one, I promise... Here is another interview.
I hope all of these links work for you. If they don't, try looking at this post again on a computer at home or at the library.
Thanks! Enjoy!
Mr. Moore and Ms. Vander Velde
Friday, April 24, 2009
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Dear Mr.Moore and Miss Vandervelde what I thought about the book was that was very funny and my connection for the book is that it is incredibly funny for kids and even adults too. Also it reapeats a phrase every time it takes a person to the fart. I thgought it was very wierd also cause they thought fart did not exist and so they got eaten by the fart I enjoy this book beacuse Mr. Moore is a very good reader and he read it with expresion really well. Thankyou for reading this very very funny book to all 5th grade.
Karla
Dear Mr. Moore
In the story Good Families Don't is funny. In the story I have lots of connections. On a weekend I was trying to finish my homework. Then my to brothers barge in my door and start farting in my face. I always tell them that they never are going to get a family if you keep being gross. So finally he got a job and doesn't bother me no more.
Esmeralda
Dear Mr. Moore& Ms. V,
While you were reading the book Good Families Don't I had a connection with the part where it said She called the police and said there was a fart on her mommy on her daddy because onetime my sister and I thought my mom was missing so we called the police and we said our mommy is missing can you find her? When the police came over they started to look for her and then they found her just getting out of the shower because she heard a knock on the door.
Jeffrey
Dear Mr. Moore,
I have a ton of connections to this book. Like one time my sister Larissa but fake vomit on my bed and I yelled for my mom came upstairs but the vomit wasn't there. When I got into bed I felt something right under me I checked to see what it was and it was the vomit so I did the calling for mom thing again and this time Larissa said that she had been looking for i the whole day. Another time I hid a fake snake under my mom because she was scared of snakes and I just wanted to see the scary again but totally paid the price for it.
Manuel
Dear Mr.Moore and Miss Vandervelde what I thought about the book was that was that it was very funny and my connection for the book is that it is incredibly funny for kids and even adults too. Also it reapeats a phrase every time it takes a person to the fart. I thgought it was very wierd also cause they thought fart did not exist and so they got eaten by the fart I enjoy this book beacuse Mr. Moore is a very good reader and he read it with expresion really well. Thankyou for reading this very very funny book to all 5th grade. I can use a very funny story during my birthday to be happy.
Your Friend, Karla
Dear Mr. Moore and Ms. Vander Velde,
I was looking a one of Robert Munch website and it made me have a connection to where I get my ideas for writing fiction stories. Robert Munch gets his ideas from reading children stories. When I have a write a patch or Mr. Moore tells us to write a fiction stories I think of books I have read and that is where I get my ideas for writing. Thank you Mr. Moore and Ms. Vander Velde for reading that book to us I really enjoyed it and it was funny when the fart went on top of the girl's mommy and daddy. Thank you.
Your friend,
Chantel
Dear Mr. Moore,
My connection is when I was going to take a shower there was a giant spider in the bathroom with its babies crawling around and we'd just had a person come in and kill all the spiders so my mom thought that I didn't want to take a shower but she looked anyway. Me and her being afraid of spiders she screamed and ran out and her boyfriend later came and vacumed them.
From,
Sophia
Dear Mr.Moore & Miss V
I think Good Families Don't is a great book to do for writing. I made a connection
to the book it was kind of like me when i was little i use to think monsters were real and very time i would go to bed i would not go to sleep because there were monsters under my bed. that book made a big conction to me and it did to every one else and the way you read really show the little girl and her parents your voice told me that the little girl is really anuoing to me.
sincliy Ashley
Dear Mr.Moore & Ms.Vandervelde,
I have a connection from the post and book that you read today called “Good Families Don't”.
My connection is about my brother because sometimes when I sleep with him and we have had lots of fiber he starts bursting out lots of farts and it smells really bad when he is done with is farting up the whole room. Trust me you do not want to be in that small room when he is done because it smells like a dog pie. But sometimes my sister stinks up the room when I just talking to her and it smells like a cow pie. A.k.a brown dog stuff that they leave out side all the time and if you have a dog you would know what I meant by the word pie.
Andrew
Dear Mr. Moore,
When I was reading this book it made me think of my little boy cousin because, he is always saying that he does not fart. I think that this book is very funny because the mom and kept saying that good families don't have farts and then at the end the yelled “That was a fart!” Then the little girl said that good families did not have farts. I really enjoyed this book.
Love,
Diana
Dear Mr. Moore,
While I was reading a interview with Robert Munsch, I read that he likes story telling more then sitting down and writing. My connection to that is that my dad likes to tell fairy tales and stories of his childhood.
Next, I learned that Robert likes to get ideas from his kid, parents and friends. My dad likes to watch my little sister for ideas, because he thinks that the way she plays with herself and the fact that she is never bored and that she is creative, makes him get ideas for just bed time stories he tells us.
Robert has lots of stories that are published, 44 to be exact, and exactly 200 that he is still working on. My auntie who goes to school to be an author, likes to my little sister and I all her stories, and she says them once or twice before she actually brings them back to school.
I think that telling stories out loud and memorizing them really authors with writing and us to, because we get to say our stories out loud and hear ourselves, if we make a mistake in grammar or punctuation, and the reader can also hear it and find any mistakes and ways to make the writing better.
Admira
Dear Mr.Moore and Miss.V,
My thought of the book was that it was very funny and that we can all relate to that because even though we say we don't have farts we all do.
My connections are that I hate when my dad farts in front of all my family, good families don't fart, ya right. It is funny when baby brother does it sometimes but dad seriously.
I have read must of Robert Munsch's books like The Paper Bag Princes or Mud Puple but I can say that Good Families Don't Fart is my favorite
Sincerly, Denisse
Dear Ms. V and Mr. Moore,
I took a look at Mr.Munsch's website and I noticed how many schools he had visited and how many letters he had received from many students. I remember when I wrote a letter to my favorite author and I only let my mom read books by that author to me until she responded to me. One day, I got a response from her and it was a poem saying exactly what she wanted to tell me. I framed that poem and showed it to my entire class of 2nd graders and everyone else wrote letters to her. She got so many letters, just like Robert Munsch. It's kinda funny because that author is still my favorite author, Katherine Patterson.
Sincerely,
Cheyanne
Dear Mr.Moore and Miss.V,
I read a mini story about the author of Good Families Don't, and he says that it takes him three years before he publishes a book because he revises and edits he stories over and over again.My connection with his little story is that, it takes me about 4 weeks to tell Miss.V that I'm done with a story. For example with my fiction story it took me about 4 weeks to finish with my story. That is the connection I made with his little story not with Good Families Don't but with his. I couldn't make a connection with Good Families Don't because I just didn't think about something similar to that story.I was surprised when I read his mini story and read that it takes him 3 years to publish his writing. I loved that story Good Families Don't because it was super funny and kind of ridicules.I really enjoyed the story. By the way I had never heard Mr.Moore read,But I thought It was cool to hear him read.
Your friend
Jessica.
Dear Ms.V, and Mr.Moore,
I only have one connection to the book (Good Families Don't.) My first is, in Mexico I used to have a dog. His name Was Droppy. The reason why we called him Droppy, was because his face was like dropped, and it looked like somebody has striched his face almost all the way down to the floor. Well one time Droppy was on my bed and he wasn't a loud to be on my bed, so I told my mom that Droppy was on and that he didn't want to get off. So my mom went in the room and when the dog saw her he just jump on her, licked, and then Droppy just left. But the only good thing was that he was off my bed, and I didn't need to worry about him any more... Because he was sent outside, and then I could do my home work in peace. But after I came here to Colorado My poor little Droppy died off sadness. I'm not so sure if I have other connections to go with the book, but all I know is that this is the connection that hit me when you read the part where the fart jumps on the, the mom, and on the police.
Your Friend,
Angelica C
Dear Mr. Moore,
There is a book called Love You Forever I have a connection with that book because my little brother Ulises would always make a super big mess but my mom would always say I love you no matter what. In that story the little boy would make a mess I remember he got the toilet paper and made a mess in the bathroom. The story that you read us called Good Family's Don't I have a good and funny connection to that story and it was super funny. The connection is that my brother like in the middle of the night if he farts he yells I farted mommy. Sometimes its worse sometimes he says it in front of people, and he says it to my mom and me hes weird like that but hes fun to be around with.
sincerely
Anna Karen
Dear Ms.Moore,
The writer of "Good Families Don't",did not alway write books.When he was little he write poems for fun.Also he was the best writer in Canada.He started writing stories for little kids.
This was a connection with a writer that I read almost every night.Also he was a famous writer who writes for kids ages 8 and 13 years-old.This stories were almost the same as the writer of "Good Families Don't".
-Elsad
Dear Mr.Moore and Ms.VanderVelde,
I was looking at the links you gave us and I had some connections. Here they are. My first connection I got was when I saw that a book that he said he was writing and it was called "I Am So Embarrassed." It is about a kid who gets embarrasses by his mom at the mall. I have gotten embarrassed at a mall but not by my mom. My sister is the one who embarrassed me. We were walking to a store and she pushed me into some weird guy and everyone saw! I was so embarrassed.
Another connection I had was actually in the book that you read to us called,"Good Families Don't." The connection was when the little girl told her parents about the fart that was in her bed and they didn't believe her. One time I knocked on the bathroom door and told my mom that somebody named Diana was at the front door, (my mom doesn't like her very much,) and she didn't believe me. When she got out of the bathroom she saw Diana out of the window. "Told you so," I said. Those are my connections with the books that Robert Munsch has written and is still writing.
~Kaylee
Dear Mr.Moore,
The connection that I have about farting is that some people fart on purpose and sometimes on accident like when you're in class.The people who fart a lot are the ones who are sick that don't take medicine that will help them of not farting again.The piece that I did not like is when it repeats when every person says that the fart got on the police mens,mom,dad. Carmen says a lot of details about how the fart got on every person in the face. Dad is so exaggerated with the fart coming to his face. The mother is also so exaggerated with the fart also.
FROM YOUR FRIEND ELIAS
Dear Mr.Moore and Ms.V,
My thought on the book was that it was very funny because it talks about farts and how the little girls parents thought that farts did not exist so the fart jumped on top of them.The connection that I had with the book is that when I was little I used to be scared of farts not because off the sound but because of the smell.The other thing that I really liked was Robert Munsch's website because the poems that he writes really do rhyme and are also very funny.
Your friend,
Lupita
Mr.Moore
I have a connection there is another book that is called stinky feet I think Ismael has it or Denis one of those two have it. Any way i liked the story.
Ruben T
Dear Mr. Moore,
I found one of Robert Munsch poem books. The poem was called moving, when I read this poem it made me have a connection with it. My connection has to do with myself. The connection that I had was that I had to move to a new house also. When I moved to the new house I didn't really like because I never lived in the area where we moved to. Once I heard that we were moving to, I didn't like it. When went to go see the house that we were moving into, I kind of liked it, but yet I didn't. So when we finally moved in I wasn't use to it. I could hear a lot of squeaking when we walked around. I could see small bedrooms closing up upon me. I could feel humanity sticking on me as it rises from the laundry shoot. I could smell smoke as if there was somebody smoking in there. I could taste smooth wood from the slick wood floors. With all this going on around me I knew that it was going to be a long time before I got use to the new house. That is how I connect with the poem.
Your friend,
Julyssa
Dear Mr. Moore and Ms. VanderVelde,
I went to some links on ''Good Families Don't.'' I went to ''Before He Writes The Books.'' This link said that the
author Robert Munsch was born on June 11, 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Robert's current home is Ontario, Canada. Robert Munsch is the author of ''Good Families Don't.'' I also went on ''Good Families Don't. In this website it has pictures of other titles of books that Robert Munsch has written. Such as Smelly Socks, The Dark, I Have To Go, Mud Puddle, and Wait And See.
I have a connection with the part in the book where her parents don't believe her. One time when I was in Mexico with my cousin Gina, she was going to the bathroom. Then when she walked in she saw a snake. She came running and she told our grandma. My grandma didn't believe that she had seen a snake. Then a person that was with us. Then that person told us that there was a snake in the bathroom. Then my grandpa took the snake somewhere else. My grandma didn't believe her. Thats the same in the story.
From,
Mirican
Dear Mr. Moore,
I loved Good Families don't it was so funny when you red it to us and I personally think that the first interview of Robert Munch was for kids because it had a lot of bad words in it but besides the bad words it had a lot of information about him and it said that when he was a kid he was a good catholic kid and he wanted to be a priest when he grew up. Thank you for reading that book to us it had a lot of expression in it thanks.
Dominique
Dear Mr.Moore and Miss.V,
My thought of the book was that it was very funny and that we can all relate to that because even though we say we don't have farts we all do.
My connections are that I hate when my dad farts in front of all my family, good families don't fart, ya right. It is funny when my baby brother does it sometimes, but dad seriously.
I have read must of Robert Munsch's books like The Paper Bag Princes or Mud Puddle but I can honestly say that Good Families Don't Fart is my favorite one
Sincerly, Denisse
Dear Ms.V,
The link that I went to did talk about more about what real life people tell about well there connecting with good family don't.One of the girl said that in her tank first she though it was a fish tank but then she realize that it was a frog tank instead of a fish tank.In addition I wanted to said that all people and person do fart because that is regular.On the other hand I'm reading a story that is about a person that is special because he or she is not shy to show and tell other people the stuffs that are happing in her house or around her.this person is writing about the day that he went to 2 grade and he is saying all this stuff that make people and other students get like go inside the story with them.In addition this person is really pushing his thinking by saying how the teacher treated them.On the other hand I also wanted to said that when people do write good stories a lot people wanted to read them too other students or person so they can make good comment about the story.I realize that this person is really telling what the teacher are making them do.On the other hand Mr.Moore this are my connecting about good families don't first I wanted to said that your reading is good you do read how other person should when they read that book.In addition I like the part when all the person said Aghd Aghd Aghd whenever the fart got them.On the other hand the little girl is really part of the story because the fart was in her room and she was the one that save the day.Mr.Moore I didn't get done but when I can I will finish the comment.
Evelin
Dear Mr. Moore,
I think that this book is a very neat book and I would have to say that he is a very hilarious person because he says that whenever he uses the word fart kids go bananas. I think that all families fart but so sophisticated people think more of them or that they are a little full of themselves and I think that it is okay to think more of themselves or to brag a little by saying that I don't fart. I have had experiences where little kids tell me that the don't pick there nose or don't talk with there mouth full and next thing you know they end up picking their nose or when its lunch time they start to talk with their mouth full of food. Every one is like that from time to time and ill admit that I too have been a little self centered and think that I am in a higher position than others even though we all need to be treated the same way. So I think that people should not think that they are better because they have very good manners and are living like they go to etiquette school. My entire point is that every body farts no matter what!
*Iratny
April 24,2009
Dear Mr.M and Mrs.V,
I tried to tell somebody about were to go and I told Elsad and he didn't respond to me so I am just commenting to you and I don't want to bodder anybody in the class and I am still don't know what to do and I want to be a good girl and not boddering anybody in the class so now I figure it out were to go and now I feel that I want to buy the book and read it all over again and even when I am going to sleep or I can take it any were I want even when I am going shopping I can read it in the car of my dad because my dad has two cars one that is new and the other one is the old one so the car that I like the most is the new one and the new one is colored light blue and green that are mix together and that book is so cool and when I see that book I will tell my mom if she can buy that book so I can read it at home or any where of mi life.
Your Student,
Viridiana
Dear Mr.Moore,
The book Good Families Don't is really funny especially how you read it with expression and kind of loud which made it more funny.Ｔｈｅ ｃｏｎｎｅｃｔｉｏｎ Ｉ ｍａｄｅ ｗａｓ ｔｈａｔ ｅｖｅｒｙｂｏｄｙ ｗｈｏ ｒｅａｄｓ ｔｈｔｅ ｓｔｏｒｙ ｙｏｕ’ｖｅ ｊｕｓｔ ｒｅａｄ ｗｉｌｌ ｇｅｔ ａ ｇｏｏｄ ｌａｕｇｈ ｏｒ ｍａｙｂｅ ｇｉｇｇｌｅ ｌｉｋｅ ｍｏｓｔ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ ｆｉｆｔｈ ｇｒａｄｅｒｓ ｄｉｄ． Ｔｈｅ ｂｅｓｔ ｔｈｉｎｇ ａｂｏｕｔ ｔｈｅ ｂｏｏｋ ｗａｓ ｔｈａｔ ｉｔ ｒｅｐｅａｔｅｄ ａ ｐｈｒａｓｅ ｗｈｉｃｈ ｗａｓ ”Ｗｈａｔ ｇｏｏｄ ｆａｍｉｌｉｅｓ ｌｉｋｅ ｕｓ ｄｏｎ’ｔ ｈａｖｅ ｆａｒｔｓ．
Ｓｉｎｃｅｒｅｌｙ，
Ｅｍｉｌｉａｎｏ
Dear Mr. Moore,
Halarious book. I read it at the library over the summer.
~Dzenad
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