Saturday, April 18, 2015

Book Of The Week" The Flea's Sneeze

The Flea's Sneeze by Lynn Downey


Summary:
This fun and light-hearted book is built upon rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, making it a great book for early literacy and phonemic skills.  As numerous barn animals attempt to sleep, a poor little flea has a cough, the sniffles, the sneezes but no tissue!

Vocabulary:
  • tumbledown - broken down; ready to fall apart
  • garble - to mix up or confuse
  • plea - a call for help; to beg
  • snoot - nose
  • baffle - to confuse
  • mutter - to mumble
  • outrage - to be very angry
  • holler - to yell
  • fluster - to become confused and/or upset
  • daunt - to be discouraged

This book provides a great opportunity to work on rhyming words, animal names, and animal sounds.  waddle-ah-chaa offers animal extension activities put to song!

Questions:
  • Where do you sleep?
  • What is a fowl?
  • What is a hog?
  • What sounds might you hear in a rickety, crickety barn?
  • Where is a peaceful place that you like to go?
  • What happens when you are sick?  Do you sneeze?  Do you cough?
  • What other animals might you see on a farm?

Scholastic offers fun activities with puppets and instruments that you can check out here.




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