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Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Create a Room

Create a period room of a scene from the story. Take pictures. Invite others to check it out. (e.g. tea room)

2. A New Story

Choose a character from the book and write a new story about the character.

3. Puppet Story

Make puppet characters and reenact a portion of story.

4. Tin Foil Collection

Collect tin foil like Mother Ripplemeyer did and after a week or so ask your classmates to estimate how much it weighs. Get it...
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