This month we read Mr. Popper's Penguins by Florence and Richard Atwood. It's been awhile since we've had our last book club, in December we read Little House on the Prairie. But life got busy and crazy with Christmas, so we never had an official book club. Now we are back in the saddle this month!
I had planned a craft to make penguins out of toilet paper tubes, but they wanted nothing to do with it. So with Daddy's help they made three lego penguins. Ava assembled a theater and Dawson brought a cop car (Mr. Popper ends up in jail at the end of the book.)
We also had ice sculptures (ice frozen in various size cups) for decoration. We ate white bean soup (the Popper's were really poor and subsisted on beans) with sandwiches and vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup for desert (I don't know, penguin colors!)
Carter with his penguins
Very creative, huh?
My favorite question we discussed was naming your 10 penguins based on characters from your favorite books. It was interesting to hear what characters they chose. Dawson couldn't pick characters so his penguins had names like: excavator, John Deere and dump truck. Ava liked Madeline, Little House in the Big Woods and the Boxcar Children. Carter picked Scooby Doo and then said he didn't like fiction, only non-fiction. So the rest of his picks were names like Everest, Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay.
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