1. Make Your own Moose Headband - Trace your child's hand
on tan construction pOper and cut them out. Cut ears from brown
construction paper. Make a head band by cutting a piece of brown
construction paper in half long ways. Fold the halves long ways
and staple them together to make a long strip of paper. Staple
in a circle to fit your child's head.
2. Make a Moose Puppet - Go to the Puppets
Page for directions.
3. Toothpick Picture - Maine is one of the biggest producers
of toothpicks. Buy a box of toothpicks and make a design or
picture using toothpicks by gluing them onto a piece of paper.
5. Make a Lighthouse - You will find directions on how to
make a lighthouse on the Paper
Plates Craft Page of the Members only Ssection.
6. Make a Maine Poster - Study Maine and then collect objects
and pictures that remind you of Maine such as: sea shells, toothpicks,
pototo chips, pieces of wood, pine cones and needles, fake gems,
cardboard, newspaper and gravel. Glue them to your poster. Make
a crab from a sea shell macaroni noodle. Go to the Under
the Sea Crafts Page for directions. Cut an apple in half
and dip it in red paint. Make an apple print on a piece of white
paper, paint in the black seeds, cut it out and glue on the
poster. Make an egg by painting half a foam ball yellow. Cut
the egg white shape from paper. Glue the half foam ball to the
egg white. Glue everything to the poster. Make blueberries from
blue Sculpty clay. You may also want to include a map of Maine,
a picture of their state flag, moose prints, or a picture of
a lighthouse.
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1. If You Give a Moose A Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff
- Children of all ages will enjoy this book.
1. What
is a Consequence? Look the word up in a dictionary. Ask
your child if he notices that there is a word within this word
-- sequence. Look up the word sequence. Sequence means order.
Consequence is what happens when you do something. If you do
one thing, something else will happen. For example, if you read
a little everyday, you will become a good reader.
Talk about
a certain action and its consequences. For example, what would
happen if you forgot to put the milk in the refrigerator. Help
you child come up with a logical sequence. The milk would spoil.
You will have to throw it away. Mom would have to go out and
buy some more milk.
2.
Have your child make up his own story using the same technique
used in this story. Point out the fact that the ending of this
story isn't really an ending because the ending starts the whole
cycle of events again.
3. Diagram
the Story by drawing pictures in a big circle showing how
one thing leads to another.
4. Have
your child make a moose
puppet and act out the story as you read it.
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2. Birdie's Lighthouse by Deborah Hopkinson (kindergarten and older)
1. Show
your child the book and ask him what is different about this
book than most books. It is taller than most books. Ask them
why they think it was made this way. Show them the picture of
the lighthouse on the back of the book.
2. Make a Shape Book using the shape as the main theme for
your story. For example. If your child makes a round book, he
can write a story about something round or he could make a long
book and write a story about a train.
3. Talk
About Responsibility - Look the word up in the dictionary.
Ask your child what his responsibilities are. Make a list. Ask
him what his mom's and dad's or sibling's responsibilities are.
Read the story and talk about what Birdie's responsibilities
were. Talk about consequences and what would happen if we were
responsible.
4. Birdie's
Lighthouse is written as diary entries. Have your child write
a story using this technique.
5. Ask
your child how he would feel if he had to live on an island.
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3. Time
of Wonder by Robert McCloskey - Robert
McCloskey conveys his love for the coast of Maine and all it's
islands beautifully in this book. It starts off describing how
you can watch a storm rolling in off the ocean as it grows nearer
and nearer darkening each island until it reaches you. He describes
how the weather and mood of the coast can change from hour to
hour from being sunny, to foggy, to very windy and rainy. It is
obvious that Robert treasured his summer on the coast of Maine
as a boy and this book would make any child want to spend his
summers there too. He talks about the rocky beaches, starry skies,
seals, porpoises, fishing, sailing, and much, much more. This
is a great book to introduce your child to Maine's coast and islands.
4. Ferryboat
Ride by Anne Rockwell - In this story a little girl describes
her trip on a ferry to one of the islands off the coast of Maine.
She describes everything she sees and hears and smells along the
way: the people on the ferry, a lighthouse, the fog, the fishing
boats, the sea, the fish, seagulls, and much more. Through this
book your child will experience what it is really like to take
a ferry ride and what it is like off the coast of Maine.
5. One
Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey - A little girl named
Sal loses her tooth while digging for clams with her dad on the
coast of Maine. Although she doesn't find her tooth, she does
find a feather which she decides will be a good substitute to
make a wish on. It turns out she was right. Through this book
children will experience some of the simple pleasures of living
on the coast of Maine.
6. Keep
the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter and Connie Roop - This
is a true story about a little girl who had to take on the huge
responsibility of keeping the light burning in the lighthouse
while her father was away and her mother was sick.
1. Look
up Matinicus Rock on a map of Maine.
2. Talk
about what it would have been like to be Abbie with such a big
responsibility. Talk about what responsibilities your children
have.
7. Lighthouse
Dog to the Rescue by Angeli Perrow - This is a great story
for animal lovers. It is about a dog who saved a boat lost in
a storm when the lights in the lighthouse and the bell would not
work. Your child may enjoy acting out this story after you have
read it to him.
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