We read the book I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child. If you've never read it, we highly recommend it! It's very entertaining and the illustrations will pull you in! It's about a young girl (Lola) who is a very picky eater and won't eat anything. So her brother, Charlie, makes up fantastical stories about the food to lure Lola into trying them. He tells her that the mashed potatoes are actually "cloud fluff from the highest peak of Mt. Fuji" and that the peas are "green drops from Jupiter". Needless to say, these stories were enough to convince Lola and it turned out she loved all the food!
1. She turned ordinary food into an imaginary adventure
2. She used illustrations with big pictures and bright colors. They covered the whole page.
3. She arranged her words in different shapes, instead of just a box of words at the top or bottom of the page.
We set out to make our own page, and eventually our own class book. It's now in our class library, pop in if you ever want to read it!
Here are some pictures I took along the way! Put your cursor over the pictures for the captions.
On Friday Mrs. Risberg (Elsa's mom) came in to share some pictures about life in Sweden. She taught us some words in Swedish, we played "Color I-Spy" in Swedish, and we learned about rock trolls! The legend is that the rocks in the forests (which we learned are very common in Sweden) turn into trolls when no one is around.
This slideshow has some extra pictures from our smorgasbord that Mrs. Halabu took!