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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