Cereal Box Reading Project

All Kindergarten- Fifth grade homerooms recently talked about tall tales during Media Skills.  A tall tale is an exaggerated story.  We read the book “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” by Judi Barrett.  Afterwards we created a cereal box covered with foods that could have fallen from sky, like in the story.  

The students had to work together as a group to decide who was doing what on the box, what was going where on the box, and how they wanted their class cereal box to look when finished.  The older students had to write about their favorite part of the story and tell about their experience of working as a “team”.  

The older students then had the opportunity to share their writings with the class orally.  The younger students had to draw a picture of the favorite part of the story and tell the class orally about their experience of working as a “team”.  The students all seemed to enjoy the book and the group activity.  I hope you enjoy listening to them tell you about their learning experience.