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Retelling or Reenacting Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!

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JDaniel and I read the book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming about three rabbits that use their cunning to outsmart Mr. McGreely who is trying to keep them out of his garden. He puts up a wire fence and then a wall. Then he makes a moat and a huge structure. While they can’t get over the huge structure, they outsmart him by entering the structure in his harvesting basket.

I decided it would be fun to try retelling and reenacting this fun book with JDaniel this week.
Retelling Activity

I made a flipbook for JDaniel on the Read Write Think website. If you haven’t been to it, you really need to. You can create a book that is designed and illustrated completely online or you can create the pages online and use the print outs to illustrate your book. I put in the name of each way the rabbits outsmarted Mr. McGreely at the bottom of a flipbook page. JDaniel helped me look for fruit and vegetable pictures in magazines to place on the garden page. I cut out pieces of construction to represent each of the structures Mr. McGreely used to try to restrict the rabbits and then set JDaniel lose with his crayons. Once the pictures were done we could retell the events in Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! as we flipped through his book.

Reenacting Activity
JDaniel and I gathered up three of his stuffed rabbits and then started building structures that Mr. McGreely used to try to keep them out of his garden. I took JDaniel’s plants and put them a construction paper fence about the casserole dish that contained them. Then we lifted up the dish and put a shoebox to represent the wall. Next, we put blue paper under the shoebox to represent the moat. Finally, we put all of it into a cardboard box. JDaniel had a lot of fun trying to help the rabbits get to the garden.
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Comments

  1. What a great activity! I haven’t read that book. Need to check it out!

  2. What a great activity!! I really should do more things like this with my kids. Thanks for the inspiration. (BTW- I added your button to my Blog Roll page. I hope you don’t mind.)

  4. I’m always happy to find your books online. They’re always great. Thanks for keeping us informed.

  6. Hi,

    Your post is inspiring how to really play with your children and educate them at the same time. 🙂

    Thanks for visiting my blog — it has been a pleasure to meet you!

    Smiles,
    Birgit

    PS: Your little boy is very cute — I loved to read about your conversations with him. “Pollens.” (sigh) LOL!

  9. Thanks for the info on the ReadWriteThink website..I will have to check it out. Looks like fun and very educational.

  10. This was a great idea for kids…..really encourages reading, and you made it fun!~ What a great Mama you are:)

  11. oh mom, you nailed it for him! What a wonderful experience. I am not familiar with the book but want to be! Another book can’t hurt right! I hope you will think about linking this post up on tales fromt the nightstand tomorrow…I know some of my readers would love it!

  12. My boys are now grown and out of the house but they would have loved an activity like this when they were little! What fun!

  17. Wow, how fun is this. I wish they had this when my son was little. What a way to foster reading for kids. The best thing is you are making memories with your son. One’s I’m sure you and he will never forget. Fun R post.

  19. We also love that Muncha book! Hard to find a sillier rabbit book.

  20. What a fab set of activties! Will def be checking out that website!! We have been looking at “story telling” and reminiscing a little too – something that is often forgotten about. Many thanks.

  22. Cute idea! I just love kid’s books!! Have you read, “Don’t Let the Pigeon Ride the Bus”? It is Soo cute!

  25. Oh, that was just brilliant. I love how he drew the rabbits.

    Thanks so much for dropping by. I appreciate your kind words.

  28. What a great way to introduce the magic of reading to kids! The book sounds like alot of fun, I have a nephew who would love it! Thanks for the info. Kathy

  29. This looks like a great idea! I’m going to check out that site!
    I somehow missed your comment on my blog about being in SC. That’s so neat. We’re just outside of Lancaster. Exactly between Columbia and Charlotte.

  30. I’ll have to get the book and then come back and check this post out again for activity ideas…it’s bookmarked now 🙂

  32. Thanks for sharing the site.
    I used to make those little books with my kdg. students.

    You are such a wonderful mama!

  33. Cool book…great idea…I’ll make sure MrsC sees this…she would like:-) Thanks for your spending a bit of time with Reuben…he appreciates all the nice comments…Peace

  34. Aw! That is so great to do with JDaniel! Ours loved re-enacting the stories they read when they were little. And we would have them “illustrate” a bible story as we read one to them. So fun to see what little ones create or their interpretations :o)

    Blessings & Aloha!
    (thank you for stopping by! yes, with a dentist (and another in two years), and a dermatologist…my hubby and I said we should have perfect teeth and beautiful skin :o) …we are wondering what our son will become when he graduates :o)

  39. What a great way to enjoy a book! I love the idea of recreating the book, and the reenacting part? Wonderful!

  40. Oh what fun!! We love this book! In fact, we just completed our Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! activities that will post on Totally Tots in a few weeks or so! We also did some reenacting!

    This is my first time on your blog! Great stuff!!!

  44. You are incredibly creative. What special ways for you and JDaniel to share and experience this story. I love rabbits.

  49. What a wonderful, resourceful “R” post for our little journey through Alphabe-Thursday.

    You have such unique ideas. I often send your links to friends I have who homeschool.

    Definitely a very cool link this week!

    But yours always are!

    Thanks for helping make Alphabe-Thursday such a wonderful meme!

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