Wordsworth Page-Turner

Some people may accuse me of going over the top...I admit, I jump at the chance to take a simple task, like snack time for Aiden's class, and spiral it into a creative outlet for me and a fun project for the kids!  Last month's issue of Family Fun magazine the had an excerpt for Eating your worms! as a special snack for Reading Across America day. I loved that idea and when Aiden's snack day came around we whipped up a batch of rice krispie treats and following the directions on the site, created our own bookworms and then proceeded to create a story behind the whole bookworm idea....and alas, Wordswoth Page-Turner was born!

Using a cereal box and some scrapbook paper we created a "Book" for our bookworms to "live" in.  

 

We cut a slit in the top and attached scrapbook paper to the top and bottom and the side, and then "lined" the sides to look like pages (dear daddy took care of creating the "book" while I created the story.

Once Upon A Time...

     In a land west of the field there was a kindergarten class full of giggly wiggly children. Their teacher, Mrs Twinkle-Sparkle was very fun and her eyes twinkled and her smile sparkled and more than anything else in the world, she loved to read to her students.

One Wednesday afternoon, after a particularly wiggly giggly morning, Mrs Twinkle-Sparkle sat down in her squishy wishy reading chair and opened a book to read to the children.  As she turned to the first page in the book she GASPED!!!

"Oh me! Oh my! The pages are GONE!" she squealed in alarm.

As the children gathered around to look at the book one of them noticed another book laying on the floor near the door.

"Mrs Twinkle-Sparkle" she said "who put that book by the door?"

All the children started to talk at once, no one knew who put that book there, because everyone knew books DID NOT belong on the floor! As the children bent down to pick up the book it wiggled and jiggled and out popped a wiggly giggly squirmy wormy!

The class erupted in squeals! The girls jumped up on their chairs and the boys began to chase after the worm as it wiggled and jiggled across the floor right to Mrs Twinkle-Sparkle.  She bent down and picked it up and to everyone's surprise give it a light kiss right on the nose!

"Class" she said, "This is Wordsworth Page-Turner, he is a bookworm and it's an honor to have him in our class!"  As she placed him on top of the book, she explained to the students that only the classes with the best books and most interesting students are honored with a bookworm and once the bookworm is invited to stay in the class, they will not eat any more books...just leaves. 

From that time on, Wordsworth and all his friends lived in Mrs. Twinkle-Sparkle's classroom and enjoyed listening to her read every day!

The End.

 

I just couldn't resist this last picture of Aiden....