Moose books

We did an assortment of moose language/science activities and put them together in a book. The cover was a water colour background with a silhouette of a moose ( from clip art). The title was made using die cut letters. The back cover was a continuation of water colours.

Page 1. Imogene's Antlers by David Small. Using a photograph of the child, they added antlers, decorations and wrote what would they do if they woke up one morning and had grown antlers.

Page2 Moose of Course By Lynn Ploudard This is a funny story about a moose trying to catch a moose. We brainstormed ways to catch a moose . We made funny moose pictures by making a rubbing of one gym shoes with a brown crayon. We then, cut the prints out, turned them upside down and made them into moose heads.

Page 3 Antlers Forever By Francis Bloxam This is a book that explains how and why moose loose their antlers. We wrote antler facts that we learned from reading this book.

Page 4 What Use is a Moose? By Martin Waddell This a a charming story about a boy who wants to keep a moose. His mother tells him that he has to find a use for the moose and then he could keep him. We made black line drawings of moose in the style of the book and then wrote about what use is a moose.

Page 5 My favorite Moose Fact. We looked at the national geoegraphic for kids website about moose and also on this site you can listen to the sound of the moose. Each child chose a fact about moose that surprised them,