Odd Velvet by Mary E. Whitcomb
Velvet was odd, and her classmates had a difficult time understanding and embracing her oddness. While students presented their teacher with gifts tea and heart-shaped boxes of potpourri on the first day of school, Velvet handed her teacher an egg carton filled with rocks, shoelaces, and half of a sparrow's egg. Velvet was different from her classmates, and she was okay with it. As the year progressed, the students slowly warmed to Velvet, discovering that being different was ok.
Vocabulary:
Questions:
What kind of gifts did the students bring heir teacher on the first day of school? What type of gift did Velvet give her teacher? What did the other students think of her gift?
How were Velvet's clothes different than the other girls? Did Velvet seem to mind? How do you know?
What do you think the author meant when she wrote "... no one was silly enough to pick Velvet for partner play or to walk home with her after school?"
Why did the student's like Velvet's apple drawing so much? Why was it so surprising that she won the art contest and not Sarah?
How did the students feel about being invited to Velvet's party? How did they feel when they were at the party?
What did the students learn from Velvet?
Vocabulary:
- handkerchief - a small piece of cloth used to wipe your nose
- lace - a cloth that has holes in it to make designs
- potpourri - a mixture of dried flowers and spices kept in a jar used for its smell
- sparrow - a small bird with brown or gray feathers
- milkweed pod - a thin pouch that holds fluffy, white, soft-like pieces of string attached to brown seeds
- nickname - a name given to a person, place or thing instead of its real name
- velvet - a soft cloth
- protest - a statement that says you think something is wrong and needs to be fixed
- tether ball - a game played by two people in which a ball hangs from a cord attached to a post while it is hit, trying to be wrapped around the post
- moat - a deep ditch dug around a castle often filled with water to keep enemies from entering
Questions:
What kind of gifts did the students bring heir teacher on the first day of school? What type of gift did Velvet give her teacher? What did the other students think of her gift?
How were Velvet's clothes different than the other girls? Did Velvet seem to mind? How do you know?
What do you think the author meant when she wrote "... no one was silly enough to pick Velvet for partner play or to walk home with her after school?"
Why did the student's like Velvet's apple drawing so much? Why was it so surprising that she won the art contest and not Sarah?
How did the students feel about being invited to Velvet's party? How did they feel when they were at the party?
What did the students learn from Velvet?
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