BOOK BAG- LEO LIONNI

Materials included in bag:

BooksFrederick
Matthews Dream
Swimmy
An Extraordinary Egg

MaterialsVenn diagram
Parent/Child discussion
Activity Page
Venn diagram
draw a mouse
Draw a frog
Draw a fish

READ:
Read all the books. Some of them are AR books and you can take a
test on them at school. If they are too hard, please have someone
read them to you. If you have time, read them more than once.
WRITE:
Choose the writing worksheets that you would like to do. You can
complete all of them or only some of them.
ACTIVITY:
Choose an activity to complete.

Parent/Child Discussion:
SWIMMY:
Vocabulary words to discuss:
anemones
creatures
darting
escaped
fierce
gulp
invisible
medusa
swaying
wonderful
1. Who was the main character in the story?
2. How do you think Swimmy felt when he lost his brothers and
sisters?
3. Suppose that you were Swimmy, what would you have done when
you were all alone?
4. Describe a time when you and your friends got together to do
something.
5. What is the deep, wet, world?
6. Tell how Swimmy lost his brothers and sisters.
7. Name the first wonderful creature Swimmy saw.
8. Explain how the little fish scared the big fish.
9. What part of the big fish was Swimmy?
10. Who taught the little fish to swim together?
Name all the creatures that Swimmy met on his journey, and draw
them.
Investigate the seashells. Which are your favorites?

ACTIVITY PAGE:
1. Go online and make a bookcover for your favorite Leo Lionni
book.
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/bookcover/
2. Draw and colorA mouse
A frog
A fish
Use these to tell the stories of the Leo Lionni books.
3. Write your own story of a frog or fish.
4. Read your favorite story out loud to a pet or stuffed animal.
5. Make a frog out of modeling clay.
6..

A Rodent-Friendly Trap

Unless it is the family or classroom pet, a rodent is not usually welcome in the house or
classroom. However, many traps to catch these critters can be harmful to the rodent or
backfire and hurt the human using them. With this in mind, design a rodent friendly trap
that will capture the rodent and enable him or her to be returned to his or her natural home.
Questions for Consideration:
What time of container could be used to hold the rodent?
Would there be food, such as cheese, involved?
How would the rodent remain captured in the trap until the human noticed him or her?
How would the human remove the rodent?
6. Go online and learn more about micehttp://www.mermaidtheatre.ns.ca/onTour/leoLionni/Leo_Lionni_SG/frederick.htm

Making a Venn Diagram:

Think of things that are alike and different in the books Matthews
Dream and Frederick. I have started it for you.
same
different

different

Citymice

Countrymice
Botharemice

Have a parent help you complete the Venn diagram.

Color the mice, then cut them out. Put a stick on the back to make a
puppet and act out the stories.

A fourth grade class made this story board. Can you choose one of
the Leo Lionni books and make a story board for it? Just draw and
color each main page and write a sentence about it.

Matthew says
you can do it!!

http://www.mermaidtheatre.ns.ca/onTour/leoLionni/Leo_Lionni_SG/frederick.htm

Draw a mouse