Ok! If you haven’t finished reading A Cricket in Times Square yet then now is the time to do so!
Once the book is done you have some fun and creative assignments to do at home!
Design a Cricket Home
Chester got a fancy pagoda cage from Chinatown so this week we are going to design our own cricket homes! You will be creating what YOU think would make a lovely home for a pet cricket.
Each of you will get your own pet cricket on Thursday (it won’t be a live one, sorry, you will have to pretend) so I want to see the coolest or fanciest or most creative cricket homes for your new pets! Does your cricket need decorations? A bed? Toys? A way to keep warm? I can’t wait to see your creative cricket homes!
Make a Cricket-sized treat to share with the class!
Remember how the man at the deli counter made a mini sized ice cream soda for Chester? We’re also going to bring a cricket sized treat to share with all of our friends. Can you take a favorite food of yours and make it cricket sized? Tiny chopped fruit salad? An itty bitty smore? A peanut butter and jelly fit for a cricket?
Listen to some music from the book!
Beautiful classical music and operas are an important part of this book 🙂 Listen to a few minutes of each of these songs so you can hear the music they talked about and loved so much!
Copywork!
In your best handwriting copy either this quote or this poem — color around it, make it beautiful!
“A Friend” by Edgar Guest
A friend is like a shady tree
Beside a summer way.
A friend is like a sunshine day
That drives the clouds away.
OR
“Friends help each other—that’s what makes them friends.”
Bring these to class, I would love to see them 🙂
