Chapter 12: A Rescue
Vocabulary Words:
lake
afloat
volleyball
woods
slip knot
disobeying
flight feathers
skunk
Art Project: Clay Skunk
Use your air dry clay, and build the shape of a skunk. Allow students to create whatever a skunk looks like to them. Use photos from books as inspiration. Allow to dry, then paint black and white. Or, is your skunk a different color? Does your Skunk also have a tin can on it's head? What is your skunk doing? Write or dictate a story about your skunk.
Bake: Canadian Fried Sweet Dough “Beaver Tail" also called Cinnamon Sugar Snowshoes
Additional Books:
A walk in the Forest by Maria Dek
Books About Skunks:
A Skunk in my Bunk by Christopher Cerf
Skunks Can't Sell Lemonade by Leslie Bush Norris
Pond Circle by Betsy Franco
Discussion Questions:
What is the skunks problem?
What would you have done help the skunk?
Should Applegate Skinner have taken out the canoe along, if he had not passed his tests?
What do you think of Louis, and his rescue of a human?
Why do you think Applegate did not care for birds?
Two characters were rescued in this chapter. A human cared for an animal, and an animal cared for a human enough to resue the other. Discuss this interesting fact.