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Title of book: Angel Child, Dragon Child

Authors name: Michele Maria Surat, pictures by Vo-Dinh Mai

Copyright year: 1983

Genre: multi-cultural

Number of pages: 35

Synopsis: Ut has just moved to America from Vietnam. She has come with her father and siblings, but not her mother. Her mother could not afford to move with her family. A boy keeps picking on Ut at school by making fun of what she wears and how she talks. The principle sees them fighting one day and tells the boy to write a story about Ut. He discovers that her mother is still in Vietnam and comes up with a plan to get her to America.

Activity: Students will draw a map as a class showing where America and Vietnam are. Then as a class they will think of possible routes the family in the story may have taken to get to American and draw them on the map.

Source of idea: http://www.homeschoolshare.com/angel_child_dragon_child.php

Title of Book: Chicken Sunday

Author: Patricia Polacco

Copyright Year: 1992


Number of Pages: 29

Synopsis: The girl in the story has African American neighbors-two brothers and a grandma, Miss Eula. She goes to church with them sometimes and they usually eat lunch together afterwards. They often walk past a hat shop and there is a hat there that Miss Eula really likes. The three children want to get it for her, but do not know how to get the money to buy it. They go to the hat shop to ask the angry owner about doing odd jobs for money. They end up making Pysanky eggs and selling them. Their efforts impress the owner so much that he gives the children the hat to give to their grandmother free of charge.

Activity: Students will write their own stories about a time when they did something nice for someone. Whether they have helped their moms around the house, given someone a gift, or was nice to the new kid at school, they should describe what they did and how it made them feel.

Source of Idea: Original

Title of book: Very Last First Time

Authors name: Jan Andrews, illustrated by Ian Wallace



Number of Pages: 29

Synopsis of story: Eva is and Inuit who often walks on the bottom of the sea with her mother to gather mussels. Today is her first day doing it by herself. She is anxious and excited about collecting mussels all by herself. After her pan is full of mussels, she goes exploring but she drops her candle and is left alone in the darkness. She makes her way back to her mussel pan and the hole where her mother is waiting to pull her back up. Even though she was scared for a while, she decides that she likes walking on the sea bottom alone.

Activity: Have students compare the agriculture of Canada and the United States by drawing a map of the two countries and labeling them. Have them research what kinds of crops and animals live in different parts of the countries. Also have them discuss why they think those crops and animals are raised there.

Source of idea: original

Title of book: Lon Po Po

Authors name: Ed Young



Number of pages: 28

Synopsis of story: Three Chinese children, Shang, Tao, and Paotze are left alone one evening when their mother goes to see their grandmother. She tells her children to shut and lock the door at dusk. Just before dusk, a wolf disguised as their grandmother knocks on the door and asks to be let inside. The oldest child, Shang, realizes that the visitor is not their grandmother and tricks the wolf into letting them go outside and climb a tree for gingko nuts. Once outside, the children trick the wolf like the wolf tricked them.

Activity: Students will make a Venn diagram comparing this story to Little Red Riding Hood. They will be split into groups of 2-4, depending on the class size, and make their Venn diagrams out of construction paper and markers. Similarities include a wolf disguised as a grandmother and a child figuring out that the grandmother is actually a wolf. In Lon Po Po there are three children, not one, and the children climb a tree to escape and trick the wolf. In Little Red Riding Hood, there is only one little girl and Riding Hood does not climb a tree to escape from the wolf. Once finished, the diagrams will be displayed on the front board to compare.

Source: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/multicultural-literature/activity/8005.html

Title: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Authors name: Verna Aardema, pictures by Beatriz Vidal



Number of pages: 36

Synopsis of story: One year in the Kapiti Plain there was a drought. The grass was turning brown and all of the animals were hungry and dry. Ki-pat was a herdsman who looked over his herd of cows. One day and eagle dropped a feather, which Ki-pat attached to a stick to make an arrow. With that arrow and a bow, Ki-pat shot a raincloud to loosen the rain. Once it rained and everything was nourished, Ki-pat got a wife and had a son who now watches the herd and makes it rain.

Activity: Students will make a t-chart comparing the climates of Africa and America. They should note when each continents wet and dry seasons are, how much rain each continent gets every year, and which parts of each continent are the wettest and driest.

Title of book: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Authors name: Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond


Genre: fantasy

Number of pages: 28

Synopsis of story: If you give a mouse a cookie, you wont just give him a cookie. Unlike a dog or cat when you give them a treat, a mouse will ask for much more than just that. He will ask for a glass of milk with a straw. Then he will need a napkin. Next he will want to take a nap, and on and on. And just when you think there is nothing more the mouse can ask for, hell ask for a cookie.

Activity: Students will make a mouse puppet out of a lunch bag and construction paper. The shapes for the mouses head, ears, and overalls will be outlined on construction paper to make it easier for students to cut out. His nose, eyes, and whiskers will already be cut out. Students will need to paste all of the mouse parts onto a brown lunch sack. Once all of the students have constructed their mice, have students retell the story using their puppets.

Source: http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/mouse_cookie_activities.html#WriteaStory

Title of book: Corduroy

Authors name: Don Freeman


Genre: fantasy

Number of pages: 32

Synopsis of story: Corduroy is a bear who lives in a department store. Every day people come and buy other toys, but not him. One day a little girl begs her mother to let her buy Corduroy, but her mother wont let her because he is missing a button. That night Corduroy searches the store for his lost button. The security guard finds him and takes him back to his shelf. The little girl comes back the next day and buys corduroy. Not only does she give him a home, but she also gives him a new button.

Activity: Students will color pre-drawn scenes from the book and cut them out. Then they will put them in order of the story and glue them onto a larger piece of paper. Underneath each scene, the students will write what is happening.

Title of book: Berlioz the Bear

Authors name: Jan Brett


Genre: fantasy

Number of pages: 30

Synopsis of story: Berlioz the bear and his orchestra are playing in the village for a grand ball. They are on their way into town when their wagon gets stuck in a hole. The donkey pulling the wagon will not budge. Several different animals come along and try to help pull the wagon out of the hole. Each animal that comes by is bigger than the last. Finally a bee comes out of Berliozs bass and stings the donkey. The orchestra makes it to the ball just in time.

Activity: Students will make a mobile of the wagon and everything that tried to get the wagon unstuck. The pictures will be pre-made so all the students need to do is color the pictures, cut them out, and attach them in the following way: the top of the mobile will be the wagon with the donkey holding the musicians, below that will be the animals in the order they appeared (rooster, cat, schnauzer, goat, plow horse, ox), and finally on the bottom will be the bee.

Source: original idea

Title of book: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears

Authors name: Verna Aardema, pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon


Genre: fantasy

Number of pages: 27

Synopsis of story: A mosquito was buzzing in an iguanas ear, but the iguana did not care to hear what the mosquito was saying so he put two sticks in his ears. When the iguana didnt say hello to his friend the snake, the snake thought the iguana was up to something, so he snuck down in a rabbit hole. This scared the rabbits and other animals saw them and thought something was wrong. All of this commotion killed a mother owls baby. The owl was the one who woke the sun each day, but with the death of her baby she decided not to wake the sun anymore. This upset the animals in the jungle, so they all got together and figured out what really happened. So when mosquitoes buzz in peoples ears to see if they are still mad at them, they get squished!

Activity: Have students put on a skit re-enacting the story. But add a red bird character that talks about inferences. The students who play the character of the red bird will stop the skit to make an inference after each new animal is introduced.

Source: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plan/reading-comprehension/48614.html

Title of book: The Foot Book

Authors name: Dr. Seuss


Genre: fantasy

Number of pages: 27

Synopsis of story: This story looks at all different kinds of feet. There are fuzzy feet and sick feet. Feet come in different colors and sizes. Some critters have two feet and some have twenty-four feet. There are left and right feet. Feet can go up, down, and all around.

Activity: Have the class create their own foot book. Students will paint their feet and press their foot prints onto pieces of paper. Then they will measure their feet to see how long and wide each of their feet are. Once each student has made their foot prints and measurements, put all of the pages together to make your own class foot book. Once the book is together, read the book and compare everyones feet.

Source: http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/250.shtml

Title of Book: A Little Excitement

Authors Name: Marc Harshman


Genre: Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 28

Synopsis of Story: It had been a long winter. Sledding and snowball fights were fun, but it was time for something else exciting to happen. When the boy in the story tells his grandmother his wish for something more exciting to happen, she warns him to be careful what he wishes for. That very night the stove overheated the chimney was spitting fire! The whole family ran outside to try and keep the house from catching fire. The little boy asked for excitement and definitely got it!

Activity: Talk to students about proper fire safety regulations for the school. Then ask students to go home and talk to their parents about what they would need to do in case of a fire. Have students make a list of steps to take in case of a fire. Come back together as a class and discuss what different families in different housing areas do if a fire happens.

Source of Activity: original

Title of Book: Miss Rumphius

Authors Name: Barbara Cooney



Number of Pages: 28

Synopsis of Story: Alice loved listening to her grandfather tell stories. She said when she grew up she wanted to travel to far away places and live by the sea just like he did. He asked her to do one more thing along with those thingshe told her to do something to make the world more beautiful. When she grew up, she traveled to far away places and lived by the sea, but she still did not know what she could do to make the world more beautiful. Then after a long winter, her favorite flower-lupines-bloomed and she wished she could plant more of them, but she was too old. She took a walk one day and noticed there were lupines growing on the other side of the hill. Then she realized what she could do to make the world more beautiful.

Activity: Discuss philanthropy with the class. Then tell students to do one random act of kindness or something to help someone or something else as many times they can in a week. After a week, have the students come back to class with a report about what they did, how it made them feel, and how it made the other people feel.

Source of Activity:

http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?media=lesson&keywords=miss+rumphius&grade=Select+Grade&rating=3

Title of Book: Night Tree

Authors Name: Eve Bunting



Number of Pages: 28

Synopsis of Story: Every Christmas Eve, the family goes out to the woods to find their Christmas tree. Its dark and cold, but the family is bundled up and excited about going. Once the family finds their tree, they decorate it with popcorn strings, balls of sunflower seeds, bread crumbs, and apples. Then they sit down on a blanket to drink hot chocolate and sing Christmas songs. Once they are back at home, they talk about what Christmas dinner is like for the animals in the forest.

Activity: Students will each choose a different forest animal to learn about. They will find out what they eat, where they live, etc. They will need to pay special attention to what animals do to survive in winter conditions. Once they have that information, they will make an acrostic poem about that animal and how it survives in the winter.

Source of Activity: http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?media=lesson&keywords=night+tree&grade=Select+Grade&rating=3 and partly original

Title of Book: Mirette on the High Wire

Authors Name: Emily Arnold McCully



Number of Pages: 29

Synopsis of Story: Mirette lives in Paris, France and helps her mother at their boardinghouse. One day a retired high-wire walker came to stay at the boardinghouse. When Mirette went outside to take sheets down off the clothes line, she saw the man wire walking. She begged him to teach her how to do it, but he would not at first because it was too dangerous. She began teaching herself and when he saw the potential she had, he helped coach her. She wanted to travel with him, but he did not want to take her. He first had to make a grand return to the high-wire and when he did he almost could not do it. But Mirette came to his rescue and helped him across the wire.

Activity: Line up sturdy boxes/crates for students to walk across. Have them record how easy/difficult it was. Then have them walk across a balance beam in the gym. They should record their feelings and talk about how much more difficult it was to walk on it. Lastly, set up a rope that is low to the ground, but above ground. With supervision, have students try to walk across the rope. Students should document why they think it was easier for some students to walk across the rope, beam, and boxes and harder for others. Make sure they discuss gravity and balance.

Source of Activity: http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?media=lesson&keywords=mirette+on+the+high+wire&grade=Select+Grade&rating=3 and partly original

Title of Book: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Authors Name: Mem Fox



Number of Pages: 28

Synopsis of Story: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge was a young boy who lived next door to an old peoples home. He knew everyone there, but his favorite person was Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper because she had four names like he did. His parents sympathized for her, though, because she had lost her memory. Wilfrid asked his parents and some of the people at the old peoples home what a memory was. With all of the answers they gave him, he collected objects to represent each description and gave them to Nancy to help her remember.

Activity: The class will take a field trip to a retirement home. Each student will be paired with a resident and ask them what a memory is to them. They should also ask the residents to share a favorite memory with the student. They can also talk about different kinds of memories, like funny memories and sad memories, and then share them. The class can come back together then and share what they learned with each other and write about their experience in their journals.


Title of Book: When I Was Young in the Mountains

Authors Name: Cynthia Rylant


Genre: Historical Fiction

Number of Pages: 26

Synopsis of Story: This is the story of a child who lived in the mountains with her family. She talks about memories of her grandparents and what she liked to do outside. She talked about going to the swimming hole to play and watching people being baptized in that same water. She talks about the simple memories that mean a lot to her, like sitting with her grandparents on the porch and listening for bobwhites. She says there was never a desire to go to the beach or the desert because the mountains were enough for her.

Activity: As a class, students will make their own When I Was Young in _______ book. The book will contain large pages and each student will get one page to write something special they have done and draw a picture to go with it. The title can be When I Was Young in Indiana or Manchester or the city, for example. Once each page is complete, the book will be put together so they can read it as a class and share it with parents.

Source of Activity: http://web.archive.org/web/20031004150139/www.eduplace.com/tview/pages/w/When_I_Was_Young_in_the_Mountains_Cynthia_Rylant.html

Title of Book: More Than Anything Else

Authors Name: Marie Bradby



Number of Pages: 29

Synopsis of Story: This is a story about a young Booker T. Washington. He was a slave child who worked packing salt into barrels. He wanted to learn to read more than anything else. One night he sees a man reading a newspaper aloud to a group of people and wonders if that man will teach him how to read. He goes home to his mother that night and she gives him a book of the alphabet. He works with the letters for a long time and then once he finds the man again, the man teaches him the alphabet song and how to write his name.

Activity: Students will make a timeline of Booker T. Washingtons life. They will be able to see how he went from being a slave to being a great man who valued education and raised a lot of money for education. This is a good way to start learning about Black History Month.


Title of Book: Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Authors Name: Deborah Hopkinson



Number of Pages: 30

Synopsis of Story: Clara is a young girl who works in the cotton fields as a slave. She was determined to get back to her momma, but for the time being she worked with her Aunt Rachel. Rachel was a seamstress and she taught Clara how to sew. In time, Clara was a good enough seamstress that she got to work with her aunt instead of in the fields. With scraps of cloth, Clara began to sew a quilt with a map on it that would help slaves escape to freedom. She would listen to conversations and gather information about where fields and rivers were and then sew them on her quilt. With what she learned, she used the information to escape to freedom, stopping along the way to get her mother, and left the quilt with her aunt for other slaves to use.

Activity: Students will use cloth strips, markers, ribbon, yarn, buttons, etc. to make their own quilt patch. Each students patch can represent a map of their house or neighborhood or symbols with different meanings. Once each student has their patch made, the teacher will sew them all together to make a class quilt.


Title of Book: The Butterfly

Authors Name: Patricia Polacco



Number of Pages: 40

Synopsis of Story: Monique lives in Nazi France with her mother. Strange, sad things are happening in her town: the owner of the candy store was taken by Nazi soldiers and a strange girl has appeared in her bedroom. She discovers that the girl lives in her basement; Moniques mother has been hiding the girl and her family from the soldiers. The girls keep their friendship a secret, but when a neighbor sees both of them in Moniques bedroom window one night, they know they are in trouble. Both families flee for the next refuge. The girls go their separate ways and Monique wonders if she will ever hear from her friend again. Then one day she sees dozens of butterflies and knows that her friend is okay.

Activity: Students will reread this book and look at the picture for different symbols and what they represent. Butterflies are and obvious symbol in this story, but there is also the Nazi symbol, the cat, and the candy. Once students understand the symbolism in the book, they will each create a collage using pictures of symbols that represent things in their life. Underneath each picture should have a word describing what that means to them. For example, a picture of a pet could represent warmth or happiness.


Title of Book: Pink and Say




Number of Pages: 43

Synopsis of Story: Pinkus and Sheldon are young soldiers in the Civil War. Sheldon (aka: Say) is wounded in a field and Pink finds him and takes him to his house where his mother will help care for him. Say does not want to return to the fighting, but Pink knows that if they stay with his mother, the soldiers will find them and his mother will be in danger. Just as they are about to go back to their units, soldiers come looking for Pink and Say. Pinks mother hides them and the soldiers kill her. Soldiers find the boys and take them to a camp where they are separated. Say was released after being there for a few months, but Pink was hanged.

Activity: Have students chart the different themes in this book: hope, friendship, and war. Underneath each of those themes, students should write where each of those themes appears in the story. Then they should determine which theme was the strongest in the book and what message Patricia Polacco was trying to tell by writing this story.

Source of Activity: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/reviews/61950.aspx

Title of Book: A Girl Named Helen Keller

Authors Name: Margo Lundell


Genre: non-fiction

Number of Pages: 42

Synopsis of Story: Helen Keller became deaf and blind at a very young age. Her parents were very worried because they could not communicate with her. They also could not control herHelen was so frustrated because no one could understand her that she became violent. They contacted the Perkins School of the Blind in Boston and they sent Anne Sullivan to help Helen. Anne would spell words into Helens hand, but Helen did not understand what the motions meant. Finally one day while walking in the garden, Anne put Helens hand under a water spout and spelled the word water into her hand and she understood what it meant. After that, Annie continued to work with Helen through college and beyond.

Activity: Students will experience what it was like to be Helen Keller by putting cotton balls in their ears and blindfolds over their eyes. With a partner leading them, they will walk around the school trying to figure out where they are by using their other senses. The leading student will also try to spell things into Helens hand to see if s/he can guess what they are spelling. Then they will switch places to experience the other role.

Source: I did this in elementary school and remember thinking it was an interesting experience.

Title of Book: I Have a Dream, the Story of Martin Luther King

Authors Name: Margaret Davidson


Genre: non-fiction

Number of Pages: 127

Synopsis of Story: Martin Luther King experienced racial discrimination since he was a young child. His father taught him the value of education and persistence. Anything could be achieved if you put your mind to it. Throughout Kings life, he worked for equal rights. This book talks about the triumphs and trials King had through his life. It also includes people who inspired him and parts of his speeches.

Activity: Students will learn the song We Shall Overcome. They can also learn about its meaning and significance during the Civil Rights Movement and what it means now.

Source of Activity: http://holidays.kaboose.com/martin-luther-king-celebrate-more.html

Title of Book: A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart

Authors Name: David A. Adler


Genre: non-fiction

Number of Pages: 26

Synopsis of Story: Amelia Earhart was not a normal little girl in the early 1900s. She wore bloomers, played in the dirt, and enjoyed sports. She started becoming interested in airplanes when she was in her twenties. Once she rode in a plane for the first time, she knew she wanted to do it again, but this time she wanted to fly it herself. Learning about planes and flying became a hobby for her and then a dream. She had dreams of becoming the first woman pilot and becoming the first pilot to make certain destinations, such as flying from Hawaii to California. Her greatest dream was to fly around the world, but while she was trying to fulfill that dream she disappeared in the Pacific Ocean and was never found.

Activity: Students will make paper airplanes to see whose will fly the farthest. Students can pair up or work individually and they can cut, fold, paste, etc. their piece of paper any way they think will make it work the best. Once the planes are made, students will line up in rows of 2-4, depending on the space available, and race their planes. Afterwards, the class can analyze why their planes won or lost. For further learning, students can look at what makes real airplanes fly.

Source of Activity: original idea

Title of Book: One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong

Authors Name: Don Brown


Genre: non-fiction

Number of Pages: 29

Synopsis of Story: As early as age two, Neil Armstrong was interested in flying. Neil worked many odd jobs in order to pay for flying lessons. He earned his student pilot license on his sixteenth birthday. After that he was a navy pilot in the Korean War, a test pilot who flew rocket-powered airplanes, and then an astronaut. On July 16, 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins made the first journey to the moon. That day, Neil became the first human to walk on the moon and 600 million people on Earth watched it all thanks to special cameras. It is also where he famously said Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Activity: Using a shoe box, foil, string, markers, Styrofoam cups, tape, etc. students will create a space mobile that could be used to roam around the moon. The space car should have a certain purpose: to take pictures, collect moon rocks, etc. and should be built accordingly.

Source of Activity: I did this project in 5th grade and thought it was fun.

Title of Book: Honest Abe

Authors Name: Edith Kunhardt


Genre: non-fiction

Number of Pages: 27

Synopsis of Story: Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin to a poor family with little education. Abe worked hard to help his family and was so eager to learn to read and write that he taught himself how to. He would take hogs and corn to sell at the market and it was there that he first witnessed slaves and how they were treated. He decided then and there that slavery was unjust. Abe became a lawyer, then ran for U.S. Senate (which he lost), then he ran for president and won. The Civil War started shortly after that and during that difficult time Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery. Unfortunately, not everyone was happy with what Lincoln did and one person was so unhappy that he shot and killed him.

Activity: Students will get in small groups and participate in a press conference. One student from each group will be Abraham Lincoln and the rest of the group members will ask Lincoln questions about slavery, the war, and who he is and what he stands for. Students should spend some time researching what kinds of things were going on during that time and how Lincoln may have answered those questions.

Source of Activity: http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?grade=Select+Grade&keywords=abraham+lincoln&media=lesson&page=3&rating=3

Title of Book: Something to Remember Me By

Authors Name: Susan V. Bosak


Genre: realistic fiction

Number of Pages: 28

Synopsis of Story: The little girl loved spending time with her grandmother. They baked, played cards, worked in the garden, and shared stories. At the end of each visit, the grandmother would give the granddaughter something to remember her by. She would also tell her granddaughter that someday she would give her cedar chest to her. The granddaughter cherished everything her grandmother gave her, even if they were things she did not particularly like or understand. As the grandmother grew older, she started forgetting things and feared she would forget her granddaughter. To help her remember, the granddaughter gave her grandmother a picture of the two of them and on the back she wrote something to remember me by.

Activity: Students will get a small box and fill it with things that remind them of someone special in their life, whether it is a parent, grandparent, cousin, friend, etc. They can use objects, pictures, drawings, etc. Each thing in the box should have a short description to go with is as to why that thing reminds them of their special person.


Title of Book: How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning

Authors Name: Rosalyn Schanzer


Genre: non-fiction

Number of Pages: 28

Synopsis of Story: Benjamin Franklin was many things, including a musician, a world traveler, a politician, and an inventor. He was always inventing new ways to do things or new things to make peoples lives easier. In colonial days, lightning made a lot of peoples houses catch fire. Franklin was determined to find a way to capture the lightning and keep it from setting fires. Using a silk kite with a wire on top, a kite string, a key, and a ribbon to hold on to, Ben and his son went to try to capture the lightningand they didsort of. Afterwards, Ben invented the lightning rod, which would get struck instead of the houses.

Activity: Students will think of a pen name and write a short story. Ben Franklin did this when he wrote for the newspaper. After the students have written their stories, read them aloud to the class and show the persons handwriting and see if they can guess whose handwriting and story it is.

Source of Activity: http://www.daniellesplace.com/HTML/benjamin%20crafts.html

Title of Book: The Graves Family



Genre: fiction

Number of Pages: 44

Synopsis of Story: The Graves Family has just moved to Union City. This is not an ordinary family, thoughthey have Venus fly traps as pets, spiders ruling the house, and a laboratory in the basement. Sara and Seth are neighbor kids who come over to the Graves house to play with the eldest son, Hieronymus (aka: Ronnie). Even though they are anxious at first, they can tell that the family just wants to fit in and the kids accept them as they are. Christopher Joel is coming to Union City to judge the best decorated house of the year. The Graves, seemingly the least likely to win, end up winning the award and the acceptance of the community.

Activity: Using a shoe box, students will create a themed house using pictures from magazines, toys, drawings, etc. They can create their own version of the Graves house or make one with a different theme, like all dogs, Christmas, chocolate, the old west, the movies, etc. After the houses are made, the class will hold a judging to see whose house was the most creative and the most consistent in terms of following the theme.


Title of Book: The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone

Authors Name: Stan and Jan Berenstain


Genre: fiction

Number of Pages: 36

Synopsis of Story: The bear museum is showing a dinosaur skeleton at noon. The only problem is one of its bones is missing! But the bear detectives and their pup are here to help. They look everywhere from the mummys tomb to the totem pole but cannot find the missing bone. Time is running out and they are running out of places to search when they see a bone-shaped mound outside. They found the missing bone! And the one who stole it was the detectives pup.

Activity: Students will study bones by dissecting owl pellets. They will be given a chart with shapes and sizes of different animals bones to see what kind of animals they think the bones belong to.


Title of Book: Moosestache

Authors Name: Margie Palatini


Genre: fiction

Number of Pages: 32

Synopsis of Story: Moose has a big problem: he has a huge, uncontrollable moosestache! It gets in his way with everything from taking a shower to skiing. He has tried everything he can think of to control his moosestache. He has braided it, curled it, made it into a sweater, and piled it on top of his antlers, but nothing has worked. Then one day he meets another moosea female mooseand she has a lot of hair like he does. The difference is, hers is not wild and out of control, but neat and pretty on the top of her head. She is kind enough to show Moose how she gets it to stay like that, too.

Activity: Students will tame the mane and make their own moosestache using construction paper, yarn, and a glue mixture (see website). Students will draw the face of a moose on the construction paper and then use the yarn and the glue mixture to make a hairstyle with the moosetache.

Source of Activity: http://notjustcute.com/2010/04/05/book-activity-moosetache/

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