Dingoes at Dinnertime

As the children arrived, they colored a picture of a mother and baby kangaroo. Then, they drew their own rainbow handprint, like the one that Jack and Annie found in the cave.

I summarized the twentieth book, Dingoes at Dinnertime, 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.

For our first craft, I passed out a picture of a dingo, which is a wild dog, to each child. Then, I scattered black and white beans along the tables for the kids to glue onto their dingoes.

Next, the children each received two Play-doh containers to make their own cave painting. Some made handprints and rainbow snakes like the pictures that Jack and Annie discovered in this week's book, while others made kangaroos and bird nests. The children also used the black and white beans from the last craft as decorations on their cave paintings.

Our last craft was decorating a rainbow, like the one that appeared after the magical rainstorm. Prior to the meeting, I cut multi-colored construction paper into tiny squares. The children glued these squares onto their rainbow to make a mosaic.