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.