March Book Club, Meeting #6

Supplies and prep:

• pretzels
• James and the Giant Peach quiz
• discussion questions
• a hard boiled egg for each person (plus a few extra)
• building supplies from recycling- boxes, paper, straws, tape, cotton balls, sponges, plastic cups, paper towels, toilet paper
• chocolate pudding
• crushed oreos
• gummy worms
• green sprinkles
• cool whip

We had our usual snack of pretzels as the girls came in and did our gathering activity, a trivia quiz about facts from the book. 

Book discussion: a lot of kids have read the book in the past, and seen the movie. We compared the two. We talked about favorite parts and favorite characters. Our choices for the next month were all historic fiction. Anne of Green Gables, Little House in the Big Woods, and Caddie Woodlawn. The girls voted for Anne of Green Gables, and several were already reading it or had read it in the past. 

The main activity was a STEM activity I have seen many places. It is an egg drop! The kids are each given an egg, then they have to construct a holder of some kind that will protect the egg from cracking when it is dropped from a tall height. This was such a fun one! The girls really ran with it. They shared their ideas and came up with their own. We used a LOT of masking tape! It was cold, but we bundled up and took them outside where I dropped each one first from the top of a ladder, then from our second story window. Some cracked, some didn't. Nobody felt bad- it was all in fun and the girls loved the challenge. 

After the egg drop, we came inside where the girls could make their own dessert. It was mud pie, with gummy worms and green sprinkles (like the magic green crystals that make the peach grow).