Miss Rumphius Literacy Activities

[MadameLeota]

In need of a bit of help here!
For my Early Language and Literacy college class, we have to make a book bag, where we send home a book with activities to a kindergarten student from a Title I school. The book I chose was Miss Rumphius. If you don't know what it's about, the book follows a girl named Alice (Miss Rumphius). She travels throughout the land, across the sea, and then wants to do something to make the world a more beautiful place. She ends up planting lupines everywhere, walking around throwing the seed. People start calling her the Lupine Lady. In the end she is telling her great niece to do the same thing, make the world a beautiful place.
I need an activity that will help promote literacy for kindergarteners. Just a few ideas will help me get started.

Thanks!!

 

[MM27]

I know the age suggestion on this book is 4-8, but Kindergarten seems a little early for this book, especially for Title I students, unless it's being read by the teacher/parents. We use this book in 4th grade. It was actually used on our state testing one year. You might want to head over to proteacher dot com. They have a Literacy board as well as individual grade level boards and the teachers there are really good about sharing lesson plans. If you search, you might be able to find something that someone has already put up.

try this:
http://www.breitlinks.com/PDFsLibMedia/ChildrensLitAcrossCurriculumIdeas.pdf

 

[MadameLeota]

It's being sent home with them and the parent is supposed to reading the story to them. Thanks for the website suggestion!

 

[Cindy B]

You could do a companion take home journal and after the book is read to the student have each student take a page of this take home journal and complete a prompt with help..

I would make the world better by........... and have the child fill in what they want and the parent/guardian write a translation if needed in little words underneath. You can get two-four sentences out of the students if they are willing to try.

 

[PollyannaMom]

The class I read this with (2nd grade, I think) was going to plant their own flowers around the school grounds after, and they seemed quite excited about it.

Maybe you could include seed packets in the bag? (If it's not to be done in the right season for that, a "map" of a flower garden layout that they could color in with their choice of "flowers" might be fun to include too.)

Maybe instructions to do something nice for someone, and write something about the person's reaction?

I think it's mostly about connecting the books to real activities, so they want to read more.

 

[MadameLeota]

I really like the seed packet idea! I have to send them one main activity to do with the book, and then have several activities that they can do without the book, so the seeds really work with that!

Thanks for all the ideas, they have really got me thinking!