Tonight on the Titanic

This week, I summarized the seventeenth book, Tonight on the Titanic. 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.

For our first craft, we made a little dog, just like the dog named Teddy that Jack and Annie found in the tree house. The children colored, cut out, and folded the dog template.

Next, I passed out pictures of the Titanic hitting an iceberg. The children colored and cut out this picture. Then, I passed out blue construction paper. The children glued their Titanic picture to the blue construction paper and used chalk to further decorate the paper. Some drew the ocean on the blue paper, while others simply drew designs. They were all unique and very creative!

Finally, I asked the kids what else started with the word ice, besides iceberg. They answered in unison: "Ice cream!" We added vanilla, half and half, and sugar to a Ziploc bag. The children put this bag into another bag filled with ice. They spent 5 minutes shaking their mixture until it was ready to eat. Everyone agreed that the ice cream was delicious.