They have a grandfather, but will not contact him for help because they are afraid he is mean. We find children in a bakery buying bread for their dinner. The notice benches with cushions in the front window and ask the woman who owns the store if they might stay there for the night. She is suspicious but agrees, planning to keep the three older children for help with housework and send the Benny to a children's home. These intentions are overheard by Henry and Jessie that night after they lay down, and so without a sound they leave the bakery and go into the night.
What we will cover in this chapter:
Science: Meal Planning and Nutrition, cleanliness
Language Arts: Creative Writing- Elements of a Mystery, Characters of the Story
Science-
I introduced the food pyramid to the children. We watched a video about Nutrition on You-Tube and they completed a worksheet. They had to make a picture of their perfect dinner using all of the items in the different food groups. We also talked about soap and how it works. The kids learned that soap works in three ways. The first is breaks down surface tension. Next they learned that soap has molecules that attach to the dirt and "shake " loose the dirt. Lastly, soap helps keep the dirt float way from your skin until it gets washed off.
Language Arts-
The Box Car Children begin's "One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from." How very Mysterious!
Lily and Aj drew a picture and labeled the 4 main characters of the story.
I had Lily and Aj write the beginning of there own story using the elements of a mystery. They learned about setting, problem solving, suspects, clues and sequence of events. The worksheets came from scholastic.com.
Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for chapter 2!
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