A Perfect Picnic
Written by: Sarah Albee
Illustrated by: Tom Brannon
Grade Intended: 2nd
Background Information:
Join Elmo, Zoe, Bert, and Ernie as the go on a spring picnic in Sara Albee's book "A Perfect Picnic." During this picnic they will see a baseball in their chocolate pie, ants, lambs, and birds eating their food, bikers splashing them with mud and a spring rain shower. With all of these things their picnic could be ruined. See how these characters react to all of these spring events.
Sarah Albee is the author of several Sesame Street and Blues Clues books.
Here is a list of a few of her books that you might enjoy.
Elmo says Achoo Elmo's ABC Book
C is for Cookie Elmo's First Babysitter
Grover's Marvelous Mountain Blue's Lunchbox
Ernie and the Vacuum Salesman Blue's Checkup
The Bunny Hop (Big Bird's favorite bird books)
A Visit From the Tooth Fairy (Blue's Clues)
To do the activities click on the dark blue words to see the worksheets and activities. When you are done staple the papers together and bring them to me.
Pre-Reading:
Each of the seasons has a different type of weather. Help Elmo find the right clothes to wear. Print off this worksheet and write down what you had Elmo wear in each season on the Weather Game.
Print off and complete one of these:
Reading:
Print off and fill out this crossword puzzle and worksheet
while reading A Perfect Picnic.
Post-Reading:
At the end of the picnic all of the characters are disappointed because the rain "ruined" there picnic except Bert. If you were there would you be like Bert or the others characters? Why? Write your 2 to 3 sentence answer on a piece of notebook paper.
Choose two Spring holidays and click on them to learn more information about them. Then print off and fill out this Venn diagram comparing and contrasting those two writing at least two things in each section. If you need to you can click on the holiday to look at the information again.
Grading Scale:
Here is how you will be graded for this project.