Day 61: Grade 5 Presentation to Kindergarteners

It is Sohpia here! Today in Library we worked on preparing our learning-service presentation for the kindergarteners. We have to pick a children's  author, find some quick facts about him/her, choose one of their books and create an activity for a group of 4 children. My group decided on the author Susan Meddaugh, who wrote the classic, Martha Speaks, and a lot of other fantasy fiction childrens books. We wrote down some facts about her that we found in the about the author section on the back cover. Ironically, Susan Meddaugh lives in the same town, Sherborn!! All of her books in the Pine Hill library are signed. I thought that was pretty cool. Anyways, we thought that for a craft/activity, we could play with the concept of alphabet letters. Today in school our group made soup bowls with an open top. My teacher is going to buy alphabet pasta so we can help them spell words in their soup bowl. Tomorrow we are going to print out Martha coloring pages when the kids are done with their bowl. I think it is great that at Pine Hill, the older kids do projects and presentations like this to be role models for the younger grades, which hopefully encourages littler kids to also want to volunteer their time and teach a few things to children younger than themselves.