Revolutionary War on Wednesday

As the children arrived, they colored a picture of George Washington.

I summarized the twenty second book, Revolutionary War on Wednesday, and asked the children a variety of questions about the book.

When we arrived at the part in the book where the tree house spun, each child received a Dizzy Pill (which is actually a tootsie roll) to help make them less dizzy. After eating their Dizzy Pills, the children were instructed to spin around three times, as if they were in the spinning tree house.

When we got to the part in the book where Jack wrote in his notebook, I showed the notebook I made that has all of Jack's notes in it.

First, we made a three-cornered hat, like the hat Jack wore during his adventure. I passed out silver snowflake wrapping paper to each child to use in place of newspaper. Since it was snowing in the book, I thought this was the perfect paper for our craft! Then, I instructed the children step-by-step how to fold the paper to make a hat. I passed out markers and stickers as decoration for the hats.

Our next craft was coloring a picture of the dollar bill, which has George Washington on it! Then, I handed each child a picture frame, which I made earlier out of popsicle sticks. The children used the stickers and markers from the last craft, as well as buttons, to decorate their picture frames.

At the end of the meeting, I passed out pretzel sticks and marshmallows for the children to make snowmen out of. This was a delicious snack as well as an entertaining craft!