Monarch Book Challenges
Perfect Square
How many different pictures can you make from one square?
Make sure you use all of the pieces.
Make sure you use all of the pieces.
Bluestem Book Challenges
Make a Pie
Try to make one of the pie recipes from the book.
*Make sure an adult is with you.*
*Make sure an adult is with you.*
Write a Diary Entry
Here are some choices on what to write.
1. Write about how your day went, including your feelings and thoughts.
2. Answer this question: What would you do if your normal day turned into an adventure? What happens day to day?
1. Write about how your day went, including your feelings and thoughts.
2. Answer this question: What would you do if your normal day turned into an adventure? What happens day to day?
Book Challenges
Operation Smile
Smile Agents, you have a new secret mission! Choose one of the missions below and see what happens.
1. Smile your best smile at Hubbard Woods and count how many students smile back.
2. Think of quiet, simple ways to make someone smile. How many times can you get your teacher to smile at you in one day?
3. Then, try to see if you can get every teacher at Hubbard Woods to smile in one week?
Warning: This must be done in secret. No grown-ups are allowed to know.
1. Smile your best smile at Hubbard Woods and count how many students smile back.
2. Think of quiet, simple ways to make someone smile. How many times can you get your teacher to smile at you in one day?
3. Then, try to see if you can get every teacher at Hubbard Woods to smile in one week?
Warning: This must be done in secret. No grown-ups are allowed to know.
The Shadows Picture Story Challenge
Like Olive in the book, pretend you have a magic pair of glasses that lets you to step inside pictures. Choose any picture in the school and write a story about your adventure in that picture. Will you go to different places or perhaps a different time? Be sure to include what you see and how you feel. Where will your picture lead you?
The Name of This Book Is Secret Word Challenge
Pseudonynmous Bosch
Word Challenge: How many words can you make with the letters of the author's name?
Then, try making sentences using the new words you have created.
Word Challenge: How many words can you make with the letters of the author's name?
Then, try making sentences using the new words you have created.
Mirror Mirror Palindrome Challenge
Palindrome is a word, phrase, passage, or number that reads the same backwards or forwards.
Examples: Wow, "Draw, o coward", 23832
Create your own palindrome poem.
Examples: Wow, "Draw, o coward", 23832
Create your own palindrome poem.
Redwoods Challenge
Take a Nature Walk at a local forest preserve or nature center, and do some of the following activities.
1. Compare your surroundings to the Redwoods' environment in the book. What things are similar? What are different?
2. Collect two or three items on your walk (if that is allowed) and create a scrapbook of your experience.
3. Close your eyes and listen. What do you hear?
1. Compare your surroundings to the Redwoods' environment in the book. What things are similar? What are different?
2. Collect two or three items on your walk (if that is allowed) and create a scrapbook of your experience.
3. Close your eyes and listen. What do you hear?
Ms. Hwang's Special Activities
Create Your Own Book Activity
Create a book activity of your own, have Ms. Hwang test it, and have it posted right here for the whole school to try! Who will rise to the challenge?
Book Summary Challenge
Do you think that you can write a better book summary than Ms. Hwang? Do you think her website summaries are too short, too long, too many words, or just plain boring? Then, write a better summary and have it posted on the website with your name on it. Choose a book and write a 3-5 sentence summary about it, even if the book is already on the website. (Just make sure you do not give away the ending.)
P.S. It's okay. My feelings won't be hurt.
P.S. It's okay. My feelings won't be hurt.