Beth NadlerBesprekingen

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ralphie is very sick and the magic school bus gang goes on an adventure inside ralphie to figure out why he is so sick
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This is a cute little book to read. I read it to my five year old niece and she adores it. It makes me glad that I can read this to my niece and maybe my kids in the future.

This science fiction book does a wonderful job at making parts of the body and learning about germs fun! The storyline, use of illustrations, and characters all work together to depict what the inside of the body looks like and how bacteria and white and red blood cells work. The story, how they go inside Ralphie's body and explore, really engages children, makes learning fun, and really brings the science down to the students' levels. This book is great and I would absolutely use this in my classroom as soon as I had the chance!

This is a fun and engaging book that can be used to teach students about the human body and what it means to be sick. It provides an unexpected perspective when looking at and thinking about the body that is very engaging for students in the upper elementary grades. This may be a little over the heads of K-2 students. This book makes the exploration of the human body relatable by exploring the route of the sickness traveling through a student's body.

This book was so much fun and would be an engaging way to teach students about what happens inside out bodies when we are sick.

The Magic School Bus is a great series for students to learn from. Inside Ralphie was very informative and interesting. I really liked the storyline and the illustrations through out the book.
The storyline grabs the reader in and keeps the reader wanting more till the last page. The story starts off with a student who is sick and the crazy teacher who takes the students on a field trip inside of the sick boy. Many people can relate to feeling sick and not wanting to take the icky medicine. The author was able to explain to the readers why it is important to take medicine through a unique and informative way.
The illustrations through out the story were defiantly attention grabbers. Yes, we all know it is impossible for a bus to shrink up and go inside of a person; however, what the class found inside the body was realistic. The illustrations of the human body was very interesting in the fact that it was not to graphic but it was detailed. There was even a point when Ralphie’s mom thought he was watching a real anatomy show on the television (she did not know it was the inside of her son). The cells were drawn like cells that are in anatomy books.
The main story line was to inform the reader how bacteria works in the body and how important it is to take medicine. The class field trip inside of Ralphie was able to watch the cells work with the medicine to attack the bacteria. If it was not for the medicine the bacteria would of grown and Ralphie would have gotten sicker.

This book is an interesting mix of fantasy and non-fiction. When Miss Frizzle's class finds out that Ralphie is sick, they want to know what's causing it. So, they get on the bus, shrink down to microscopic size, and go into Ralphie's body through a scrape on his knee and find out themselves.
This book is more engaging than if the information were presented without the shrinking of Ralphie's classmates. It makes the reader feel like they're really there, even though they could never really go inside Ralphie to see what a germ looks like. It's very informative as well as very fun.

There's action! Adventure! Excitement! All inside Ralphie's body. He's sick and has to stay home from school. So Ms. Frizzle and the class take the Magic School Bus to Ralphie's bedroom. They shrink, go inside his body, and travel in his bloodstream to his sore throat. The kids find out what's making Ralphie sick, and see his white blood cells fight the bacteria in a raging battle. Ralphie's winning! But there's one problem. Now the white blood cells think the Magic School Bus is a germ. How can the class escape?

Genre: Science Fiction. This story is science fiction because we travel in to another human's body, which could never happen. Although this book is highly informational, this could never actually take place. Even though the story uses technology that does not currently exist, we can still learn from the facts that are provided. The class takes a field trip inside a sick classmate's body and discovers what is making him sick and what his body is doing to help him get better with the help of medicine and by natural bodily functions.

Setting: Inside the human body. This setting is important because it helps the reader to discover not only more about germs, but how the human body reacts to germs and fights them off. We see pictures and diagrams to help us better understand this process. The cells inside of our bodies are shown and through the inside of the human body we gain insight on battling germs.

Media: colored pencil

When Ralphie becomes sick, his class has another unusual class lesson, on infections of the body.

yuck because some people go to ralphies body

Includes: Sees Stars, Inside Ralphie (germs), Wet All Over (water cycle), Blows Its Top (volcanoes)

I have always loved the Magic School Bus books and I have always loved the t.v. show. They are always very educational books, even though they are very unrealistic. In this book, it talks about sickness and inside the human body, so you could read it to your class when you are teaching about the body and how it works to keep us healthy.

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