After our week of Dr. Seuss activities, the boys were excited to do their second author study. To start, we chose one of our all-time favorite authors, Candace Fleming.
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! is one of the best kids' books I've ever read. Mr. McGreeley decides to plant a garden but has to try to outwit three hungry bunnies who sneak in and munch on all his growing veggies. Tippy-Tippy-Tippy, Hide! is the sequel, and it is just as entertaining and well written.
In honor of Mr. McGreeley's garden, we visited the garden at Will's school (in jammies) last week and found Beets! Tomatoes! Figs! and Broccoli! Henry actually loves the herbs best, especially the garlic chives.
We couldn't read two books about sneaky bunnies without making a bunny craft out of cotton balls and pipe cleaners. Can you see that Henry's bunny has three eyes? He insisted.
We borrowed Imogene's Last Stand from the library. Imogene is a little girl with a big passion for history. In her quest to save an historic building in her hometown, she quotes many different historical figures, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr. I came up with two activities for the boys. In the first, they matched the quotes from the book to the original author. Will's favorite, though not a direct quote, is the Vietnam War protesters who said, "Heck no! We won't go!" Henry likes Davy Crockett's "Ain't no one coming."
And in the spirit of famous quotes, I took some well-known phrases from the boys' favorite books and had them fill out a "Who Said That?" questionnaire.
Clever Jack Takes the Cake is an original fairy tale about Jack's journey past trolls, dancing bears, and gypsies to bring the princess a cake. After reading it, we had to bake our own cake -- for Gramma's birthday, of course!
The little boys and I love reading and it has been so fun to plan activities related to our favorite books. Will is already coming up with authors for future weeks.
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