A Buggy Situation

The After School Club has studied dinosaurs and Christmas stories and Dr. Seuss. I started wondering what exciting topic we could cover for spring. Planting? Flowers? Animals? And then it hit me. Bugs. Who doesn’t love bugs? But what stories would we read? Non-fiction? Picture books? After much searching in the stacks, I found the perfect set of books…about a cockroach and a flea!

The first book we started was Maybelle in the Soup by Katie Speck. Maybelle, a cockroach, decides that for once she wants to eat food from a plate and not off the floor. Her friend,Henry, a flea, tries to convince her that venturing out in the daylight is a very bad idea. Maybelle doesn’t listen and the adventure that ensues was full of moans and groans and giggles from the audience. We only got halfway through the book and can hardly wait to finish it next week!

 

We ended the program by watching the first 30 minutes of A Bug's Life…also filled with giggles.

Want to find out additional activities you can do with this story? Check out:  http://katiespeck.com/katiespeck/For_Teachers_&_Librarians_files/Curriculum%20guide%20Maybelle%20in%20the%20Soup%20Speck_pdf.pdf 

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