Welcome to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books.
Roslyn in Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth by Marie- Louise Gay loves to dig. One day she decides to dig a hole all the way to the South Pole to see the penguins.
I love what her father tells her when she announces that she is going to dig that far. He tells her to remember to bring a sweater because it is cold down there. He is such a great dad.
Once she tries to decide she is going to dig, she has to decide where to start digging. She can’t dig in her dad’s carrot patch and she finds she can’t dig where other animals have their burrows.
When we finally find a spot, she digs and digs. She would probably keep digging past lunch if her dad didn’t bring her a carrot sandwich.
There is a wonderful surprise at the end of this book. I hope you will seek out this book and find out what it is.
What did we do to extend concepts from this book?
Created a Sand Tunnel
We took a wrapping paper tube to a local playground’s sand table to create a tunnel for some of JDaniel’s cars.
It was a lot of fun covering the tube with sand and packing the sand down around it.
The cars tended to get stuck half way through the tube. JDaniel discovered that if he stuck the handle of the shovel behind a second car and shoved it into the tube both cars came out of the tube.
Practiced Cutting on Odd Shaped Lines
A couple of sections of newspaper stacked together and painted brown added depth to mom drawn lines once JDaniel had cut them out. I tried to draw a variety of lines to give JDaniel more experience in cutting different types of lines.
The cut out lines looked a lot like tunnels Roslyn might have dug in the story.
What have you been working on this week?
What a neat book. My boys would love doing sand tunnels.
How cool! My boys would love that too!
I have never heard of this book, I will have to check it out @ the library! Thank you for sharing!
My son would love this!!
My son would love this!!
Thank you for sharing this!!! I have a little one that would greatly love this! Will bookmark your page! 🙂
S.O.S. Mom
What a cute book :O)
Sand tunnels! <3
Oh I should totally get this book. When I was little we lived near Lake Michigan. When at the beach I could easily dig to water. So at home I had a hole I was always working on. I was trying to get to water, but never made it.
Ops. Something happened the first time I tried to link-up (Huge Book List), so I did it again. Could you please delete the first one for me? – Also, it’s not an activity this week, but a large list I constructed and use to find books to read to the kids. I hope this is alright.
I love the book-related activities that you share! They are so cute and educational. I really need to take a good look at my son’s book and start furthering the story like this.
Oh my boys would LOVE a sand tunnel. thank you!!
I tried to dig a hole to China in first grade. Literally.
This is such a great idea! I always try to take concepts from books and build on them with an activity in real life. Thanks for sharing!
This is such a great idea! My girl would actually LOVe doing this!!! Awesome!
we are so totally going to have to make a tunnel.. broxton would love it… as for cutting… how did you teach him? lol, broxton is struggling cutting right now.. he is still using 2 hands!
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One of my favorite memories of my little brother is when he decided to dig to China. He used a wrench, so he didn’t get very far, LOL.
I am going to have to remember this meme!! I just requested this book from my library; I gave my sons permission to dig in our backyard already and we now have a HUGE hole!!
This book sounds lovely! I am curious about the surprise in the end. I also like your extension activities for it.
My son loves tunnels. Burying them in the sand is a fun idea. I love the connection to the book.
Cute idea of the sand tunnel! I love how the cars getting stuck in the middle created a little problem solving. I added this idea to my wrapping paper tubes Up-Cycled Post.
http://brainstorminbloom.blogspot.com/2013/02/tubes-wrapping-paper-paper-towels-tp.html