Juggling With Mandarins

In our class we have started a program called NZ read aloud. In NZ read aloud classes sign up to read a book. We read a number of pages each week and then we have to complete an activity set by a teacher based on the book. We are reading Juggling With Mandarins by VM Jones. So far the book as been both exciting and interesting. The book uses lots of metaphors which makes you create a picture in your head. The activities we have done so far are word clouds on caracters. In this activity we wrote down lots of words describing a caracter(I chose the dad) and turned it into a shape related to the book. Here is a link to mine-My Character Montage. The next activity was a Alphabet Summery. This meant we had to come up with a word that had a connection to the story for every letter of the alphabet. This is mine-Alphabet Summary. I can't wait till we read some more.