The Story of Ferdinand

Title: The Story of Ferdinand

Author: Munro Leaf

Illustrator: Robert Lawson

Copyright: 1936

Category: Classic

Summary: Every bull might not be alike, but Ferdinand has to go to such lengths to make his point.

This was a fun story to read and explore. We didn't do as many activities as we normally do with our books because we had so much to do this month. We may do more activities in the future.....

Social Studies-(Geography, Spain)
We placed our story disk on Spain. The kids learned about Spain and its culture by reading 2 books and searching for information online. Lily drew a map and flag free hand. Both Lily and Aj colored in a book of word colors in Spanish.

Mathematics ( Number 1-20)- The kids did a math maze worksheet.

Art ( line, color and drawing composition)-
We used ordinary shapes to make a abstract composition. We used white paper, water colors, objects to trace, all colored crayons including white.  First the kids traced objects on the white paper. Then they used crayons to draw stripes, patterns and designs on their shapes. Last they used watercolors to paint over their drawing.The crayon  resisted the watercolors.

Language arts (copy work, vocabulary)- Lily copied a page from the book in her best handwriting. Also both kids traced letters and colored pictures of words found in the story.

Extra fun- Coloring a picture of the cover of the book was fun and we talked about what activities we like to do.