The last two weeks we have engaged in our first author study. We have thoroughly enjoyed the Martha series by Susan Meddaugh. The children have laughed at all the funny adventures of Martha the dog who learns to speak after eating alphabet soup. We have had rich discussions about story elements and similarities among the stories.
We learned more about the author and her affinity for animals, that Martha and Skits were based on her actual pets and that she got her idea for the books when her first grade son Niko was eating alsphabet soup and asked if their dog, Martha would talk if he fed her some.
We were so excited to find the secret words hidden on the book covers. We each selected our favorite story, graphed the results and did a literature response deconstructing the story elements.
Martha is such a popular children's book that they have made a television series based on it on PBS. It's focus is on building vocabulary. Also, you can go to pbskids.org and click on the Martha for games and other activities. The kiddos really enjoy this site.
We are now on to our second series-Angelina Ballerina!
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