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Don't Yuck My Yum : A Tasty Alphabet Book, Rebekah Friedman Apr 2008

Don't Yuck My Yum : A Tasty Alphabet Book, Rebekah Friedman

Graduate Student Independent Studies

Don't Yuck My Yum is an alphabet book that moves the reader through the experience children have when they are gathered in a restaurant for a party where each child orders a food that is somehow ruined. The phrase, "Don't Yuck My Yum", used as a refrain, is the children's angry response to receiving the disappointing plate, meaning, "don't ruin my delicious food." Because it is an alphabet book, there are 26 children, one for each letter, and a child's name that begins with each letter and a corresponding food. The story is punctuated every four stanzas with the refrain, …


A Study Of The Value Of Gestural Activities And Linguistic Devices Peculiar To Finger Plays With Suggested Procedures For Extended Uses, Elaine Rice Gibb Jan 1960

A Study Of The Value Of Gestural Activities And Linguistic Devices Peculiar To Finger Plays With Suggested Procedures For Extended Uses, Elaine Rice Gibb

All Master's Theses

The purposes of this study were (1) to disclose the predisposing inclinations of the child for finger play activity, (2) to consider the characteristics of finger play with relation to the child's growth and development and to determine their value as a technique for furthering the education of the child, and (3) to provide the interested teacher or parent with finger play material readily accessible and extensive enough for selective purposes.