However, if you search in Microsoft Word clip art you may find the original files I started with. 11/11: I am no longer sharing my clip art files due to copyright concerns, so I’ve taken down the link to the photos.

This version was my inspiration for a new clip art flannel set! Instead of focusing on the silly, Pat Cummings adapted the song to focus on places around the world the aunt in her book brings back wonderful souvenirs for her niece (a quilted vest from Bucharest, a painted fan from Old Japan). “My Aunt Came Back” is also an awesome board book by Pat Cummings! Skip the word or phrase and come back to it later. Here’s a good basic version from YouTube. child is best accomplished when parents and teachers share com. “My Aunt Came Back” is a call-and-response camp song, and with each verse the singers add a specific hand or body motion (kind of like “Button Factory” or “Tooty Ta”) until by the end everyone is wiggly and giggly. It’s always fun to brainstorm, and “My Aunt Came Back” is one of the songs that came to mind.

We just had a refresher training session/idea swap at my library for those of us who go out to schools for our Summer Reading Program promotional visits. Cummings’s first offering for middle graders and middle schoolers is suspenseful and well-paced, striking a solid balance between ghost story and school story past and present.So Anne over at So Tomorrow had the idea to try to gather some flannelboard ideas we could use with the Collaborative Summer Reading Program theme “One World Many Stories”! The project leads Trace to the horrific burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum in 1863 and the discovery of how his questions about the past connect to his life today. Haunted by flashbacks of the accident that killed his parents, the best he. Why-and how-was he the only one to survive? When he begins researching a school history project at the New York Public Library, those questions take a backseat to a more pressing problem-the ghost of a tearful little boy who seems to fixate on Trace. Even though his artsy Auntie Lea is cool, her brownstone still isnt his home. Trace would rather not discuss his persistent flashbacks of the accident, which leave him both terrified and confused.

Now living with his eccentric aunt in Brooklyn, the thirteen-year-old spends his days talking to his best (and only) friend, eating dinners with his aunt’s quirky companions, and avoiding any painful conversation in his therapy sessions.

Theodore “Trace” Carter is doing his best to adjust to a new normal after the car accident that killed both of his parents.

My aunt came back by pat cummings