Created by: Cierra Wisher, Brandy Elliott, and Missy King
This website goes along with the children's book Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin.
The activities below are designed to be used with 2nd Grade readers.
Book Summary: Diary of a Worm
Image found on HarperCollins.com
This book portrays the day-to-day life of a worm. The humor of the text and the descriptive illustrations catch the attention of the reader, young or old. Worm shares similar experiences of a human, but from the perspective of a worm. You would never think of the hokey pokey as a hard dance, until you try it as a worm. This book, displayed in the form of an actual diary, is a great way to get children reading.
Author Information: Doreen Cronin
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Simonsays.com
Doreen Cronin was born in Queens, New York and grew up in Long Island. She majored in journalism at Penn State, but decided later to go to law school to become an attorney. She attended law school at St. John's School of Law in Queens, where she began writing part time to help pay the bills. Cronin has written several other children's books, including Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type, Giggle, Giggle, Quack, and Duck For President.
*Before you begin the slimy activities below, print off this wormy checklist to be sure you have completed all of the squirmy assignments.*
Activity 1
* Slither your way to this link to test your worm knowledge!!!
* Worm Study- Go to this website to find all the slimy details about worms that you can use to answer the questions on the activity above.
* Squirm your way to this link and take an online quiz and get your Wormologist Certification!!!
Activity 2
* Build your own Worm Condo!!! Go to this link for directions.
* While observing the worms collected in your Worm Condo write one diary entry per day for the entire week. Include what the worms are doing. Did they eat anything? Did they make any tunnels? What did you observe? Each observation diary entry should be 3-5 sentences.
Activity 1
* Click on this link to print off a reading guide for Diary of a Worm.
Activity 2
* Click on the link below to find directions for your Worm Buddy assignment. Don't forget that you will be sharing your worm buddy and his adventures with the class at the end of the week.
Activity 1
* In this activity you will create a calendar to keep track of things that happen on each day, such as the worm did in the book. Click on the link below to begin your very own calendar for this month. When you first begin your calendar be sure to add the month in the title line and the dates where they belong for that month. Your calendar should also include 2 occasions of your choice. For these two occasions you should type when and what the day is and use clip art to illustrate them. For example, if you are doing a calendar of the month of April you might include April Fools Day as one of your occasions. Be creative and have some fun!!!
Activity 2
* For this activity, look back at your Worm Buddy diaries. Click on this link and print off the Venn diagram. Compare and contrast the book, Diary of a Worm, to the diary of your Worm Buddy.
* www.childrenslit.com/th_doreencronin.html
* http://www.nsc.org/ehc/kids/wormcndo.htm
* www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/funplace/tunnel.html
* www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/facts/
