Dinosaurs Love Underpants

Hello Parents, and Happy New Year!

Today marked our first meeting of the 2017 Winter Bookworms Session!  We will be focusing on authors Claire Freedman and Adam Rubin.  This afternoon we embarked on our Claire Freedman journey with her ever popular book, Dinosaurs Love Underpants.  The funny story was used to reintroduce the following vocabulary words: hardcover, paperback, title, picture book, author, illustrator, cover page, dedication page, characters.  It may seem like we went over a lot… and we did!  These key words will be used repeatedly throughout our meetings together, and I encourage you to use them at home as well. 

The bookworms loved today’s book selection in addition to the art project that followed.  Students got creative, decorating and designing their own interpretation of the book’s characters.  To see images of their work, please take a peek at our Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/LittleBookwormsBookClub/

As always, the bookworms will be creating their own book which will be published at the end of the session during their book release party.  Today, the students began collaborating to create their first rough draft of the manuscript.  I don’t want to spoil the plot… but there are unicorns, sausage pizzas and snakes involved.  I can’t wait to see where their imaginations take them!

Here are some ideas to help get your bookworms engaged at home:

•  Talk to your child about the characters in the book.  Which was their favorite?  Why?
• Print out some of these great activities based on today's title!  Click under "fun stuff" to find coloring sheets, spot the difference activities and more  https://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/products/Dinosaurs-Love-Underpants-9781847382108
• To learn more about Claire Freedman, have your child visit her website with you: http://www.clairefreedman.co.uk/

Until next week,

Alidis