The
Monarch
Award:
Illinois'
K-3
Children's Choice Award
2010
Master List
Sponsored by
the
Illinois
School Library Media Association
2010 Nominee: Down Girl and SitA dog who thinks her name is Down Girl goes on a car ride to the beach, goes camping in the woods, and reluctantly pays a visit to the vet with her master, Rruff.
Author: Lucy Nolan
Illustrator: Illustrator
Book
Activities
- Discussion questions: Do dogs thinK? What are they
thinking? What would they say if they could talk?
- Reading/oral language: Read other stories from the point of
view of an animal. (See below.)
- Writing: Write a story told from the point of view of your
pet or another animal.
- Math: Figure out how many miles is is from your house to the beach, to the vet, to the campground.
- Science: Study pet care. Have each group do a different pet and share their information when they are done.
- Social Studies: How long have people had pets? How did they tame them?
- Cooking/Snack: Make a list of foods to take to the beach
or on a camp out. Make a dog treat.
- Art/Drama:
- Music/Movement: Make a list of all the things dogs do:
pant, shake, run, sit up, roll over, etc. In the gym at recess, have
a dog activity day.
- Technology integration: Choose dogs and other obejcts
from the clip art. Use the speech and thought bubbles to make up
what the dogs might be saying.
Related Books
- By Lucy Nolan:
- Smarter than Squirrels
- Bad to the Bone
- Related books:
- Martha series by Susan Meddaugh
- A Day in the Life of Murphy by Alice Provensen
- How to Talk to Your Dog by Jean Craighead George
- I Was a Third Grade Spy
- Loki and Alex by Charles R. Smith Jr.
- My Dog Talks by Gail Herman
- Video: Reading Rainbow Martha Speaks
Websites
2010 Nominee Resources