The World According to Humphrey

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Oh, you mean nocturnal," said Mrs. Brisbane, almost as if she had understood me. She turned and wrote the word on the board. "Can anyone else name an animal that's nocturnal?" Not my job," she grumbled. "These children are not responsible. All I need is somebody else to take care of. Some ... rodent!" Then Aldo wiped his forehead with a big bandanna and sat down at the table where A.J. usually sits. "You know what, Humphrey? You're such good company, I think I'll take my dinner break with you. Do you mind?" Ms. Mac didn’t bat an eyelash. She put my cage in its usual place next to the window and said the kids were already very attached to me. She attached Dr. Harvey H. Hammer’s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Hamstersto the cage, along with a chart to make sure I was fed and my cage was cleaned on time. Have your child practice learning a new language. If they struggle with language, American Sign Language is usually a pretty easy start. You can designate a stuffed animal to only speak in that language, to motivate your child to find a way to communicate more words in that language.

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Pay-attention-Art - Art Patel, his mom is one of the room mothers. Humphrey goes home with him the weekend after Thanksgiving. Of course, Art has trouble paying attention and is often roused by the teacher or him mom when she's around. He doesn't have trouble paying attention to Humphrey during their visit. They listened!" I squeaked when the principal sat down again. But the thumping and bumping began again in a minute. Through this first-person narrative from the perspective of a classroom pet, young readers will see that first impressions are not always accurate; that people are multifaceted, and you can't really understand a person until you see all aspects of his/her life; that sometimes, when people have problems, it takes an outsider - like Humphrey! - to open their eyes to a solution. Humphrey, a hamster, transforms the lives of children and adults when he enters their classroom, homes and hearts. *Starred review, The Best Children's Books of the Year published by the Bank Street College of Education of Columbia University in New York.The students in Room 26 are learning about boats and building their own for a race on Potter's Pond. Humphrey the hamster loves dreaming about being a pirate and watching his friends build ships. But when he mistakenly ends up at sea on the day of th... The first Mrs. Brisbane is a good teacher, just likeAldo said. She's better than Ms. Mac was at getting A.J. to lower his voice. She's better at getting Heidi to raise her hand before she blurts something out loud. With a fresh voice and an engaging, hamster's-eye view of school, families, and treats to hide in a cheek pouch, Betty G. Birney's Humphrey will elicit laughter and demands for hamsters in every elementary classroom. But Aldo Amato didn't just dust and mop. He spun and swayed. He hopped and leaped. He twisted and twirled. Cute series about everyone's favorite classroom pet a hamster. Might be a little easy for my 9 year old grandson, but that makes summer reading fun.

According to Humphrey Series by Betty G. Birney - Goodreads

Now you know my secret, Humphrey. At school, everybody listens to me. At home, nobody listens to me," he said. I’ll take him," she told Carl. “He's obviously the most intelligent and handsome hamster you have." I tried to pass the time by writing in my notebook about Pet-O-Rama and my days at Ms. Mac's apartment. Writing took my mind off my jittery nerves. But even­tually, my writing paw began to ache and I had to stop my scratchings. If only I could roam free, as I had at Ms. Mac's apartment!Is that all this hamster does-sleep?" she asked at one point when she glanced over at my cage. "Well, he's 'turnal," replied Raise-Your-Hand-Heidi Hopper.