The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

This week's Journeys reading story, Dogzilla, had a journal prompt that asked the kids to rewrite the story from the dog's point of view. They had no idea what that meant until I pulled out an oldie but a goodie...

The Three Little Pigs - wolf style! John Scieszka wrote The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Albert Wolf tries persuade the jury that he should be freed from jail because the reason he ate the pigs was a big misunderstanding... so this story was also fabulous because we're working on persuasive writing and cause/effect! While it's humorous non-fiction, he prefers to call it a fractured fairytale.

My students thought it was pretty funny, and immediately knew how they would turn Dogzilla into a first-person narrative from the dog's point of view.

Other books of the same type include:

The Three Pigs

and 

Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

For more activities for The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, click here or here.

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Dogzilla

This week's reading story is called Dogzilla. 

It's a humorous revision of Godzilla, but with a dog and mice as its main characters. Author and illustrator Dav Pilkey's site gave us more information about his inspiration for writing. He likes to take pictures of his pets, then cut and glue them to backgrounds he has painted. They become the pages of his books! He even posted some of the pages of this book on his website!

He also has some fun animal puzzles for you to do!

Check out the Eduplace website for Dogzilla here.

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In Like A Lion and Out Like a Lamb: Spring Similes and March Metaphors

Well, not so much this year in NJ! We had an extremely calm winter (that has felt like spring at times) with only 2 days of snow where I live! We're finishing up our weather chapter in science, so I thought the theme would make the perfect bulletin board. We've also been focusing on using figurative language (especially similes and metaphors) in writing. This book is great for introducing personification too!

My March bulletin board is going to showcase our writing. Students will be drawing literal and figurative meanings of common similes and metaphors. 

Download my list of March Metaphors and Spring Similes by clicking here! 

For some lion and lamb activities, click here or on the picture.

Click the maze to download it!

Make these crafts!

Busy Bee Birthday Bash!

In case you didn't know, my twin sister and I had a birthday yesterday... and I'm celebrating that and 250+ followers with a giveaway!

1 grand prize winner will win a $29 Amazon gift card (yes, that's our age!)

29 winners will each win ANY product in my Teacher's Pay Teacher's store!

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• Become a follower of the Miss B, Busy Bee Blog
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Good luck! Winners will be chosen via Random.org by 12pm EST on Monday, March 13 and announced on Tuesday, March 14.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

We had a great time on Read Across America Day. I got my students Dr. Seuss hats from Staples and we made mustache sticks to celebrate the release of The Lorax. The kids colored them, cut them out, and glued them to an orange popsicle stick.

 

We did goldfish graphing in honor of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish!

 

We watched the cartoon version movie of the book at the end of the day. Some of the kids said they were going to see the new movie this weekend.

 

They wore the hats and red shirts while our superintendent, Dr. O'Malley, read Oh, the Things You Can Do That Are Good for You! by Tische Rabe.

Kids enjoyed playing games on the Seussville website...

and singing "Dr. Seuss, We Love You" in music class!

It got the kids super geared up for MY birthday on Monday! Come back and read tomorrow's post for some exciting birthday news! :)

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