Reading Rainbow episodes focus on teamwork and cooperation. A Chair for My Mother is a story about a child, her mother, and her grandmother working together as a team. After losing all their furniture in a fire, they save their money to buy a comfortable chair. At the end of this episode, students watch a choreographed dance put together by a team that includes the choreographer, dancers, and musicians.
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As with most Reading Rainbow DVDs, you can use this episode in particular to further enhance your math curriculum. Math concepts include estimation, money values, fractions, classification, patterns, counting by 5s and 10s, addition, subtraction.
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Author: Vera B. Williams
Publisher: Greenwillow
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