What we did
Ezra chose Hatchet week because we recently finished a book called, "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. There were some things I didn't think should be in a kid's book. I skipped those parts when I was reading it to them. Overall it was a fun book. Ezra's book report is below. The book was about a 10 year old boy who survived a plane crash in the mountains. The only thing he had was a hatchet. Part of the theme for the week is survival since I didn't really know what to do with just a hatchet for a theme.
Poem
"Eat It All Elaine"
Kay Starbird
I went away last August, to Summer Camp in Maine.
And there I met a camper, called Eat-It-All Elaine.
Although Elaine was quiet, she liked to cause a stir
By acting out the nickname, her camp-mates gave to her.
The day of our arrival, in Cabin #3,
When girls kept coming over, to greet Elaine and me,
She took a piece of Kleenex, and calmly chewed it up,
Then strolled outside the cabin, and ate a buttercup.
Elaine from that day forward, was always in command.
On hikes, she’d eat some birch-bark, on swims, she’d eat some sand.
At meals she’d swallow prune-pits, and never had a pain,
While everyone around her would giggle, “Oh Elaine!”
One morning, berry-picking, a bug was in her pail.
And though we thought for certain her appetite would fail,
Elaine said, “Hmmm, a stinkbug”, and while we murmured “Ewww!”,
She ate her pail of berries and she ate the stinkbug too
http://www.brownielocks.com/kidpoems.html
Bought a Hatchet
Ezra has been allowed to use it in very controlled and supervised situations. We took it on our trip. He had fun crushing sandstone rocks.
"Hatchet"
by Gary Paulsen
Ezra's book report
Brian and the pilot were flying in an airplane and the pilot got a heart attack. The plane was still flying. Brian got in his seat. He didn't really know what to do. He flew the plane for two hours before it crashed. Then he didn't know where he was and he was supposed to be with his father but he was actually in the woods. All he had was a hatchet and some money.
Brian threw the hatchet and money on the ground. First he water at the lake. He found pit cherries, but the birds were eating them and he was amazed that the birds eat pits. Then he found berries, turtle eggs, and then he noticed where he was. He saw a moose, turtle and a porcupine. He caught a fish and a bird so he could eat them for meat. He saw a bear eating the good berries. There was a tornado. It is a thing that spins around really fast and it can take over a house and make it float.
He found a bag in the plane. He dropped his hatchet, but got it and got into the plane. He found a hard thing, then another hard thing and it was the bag. It had a radio. When he turned it on, a man in a bush plane heard it right away and saved him.
My favorite part of the book was when he got saved. It was sad that he got lost.
Setting- in the mountains by a lake
Begining- Brian was in a plane
Conflict- Brian got lost
Resolution- Brian was saved
Characters- Brian, pilot, guy in the bush plane, turtle, porcupine, bear
Survival Quiz (it seemed like a silly one, but the kids were stumped on a lot of them)
questions the boys came up with, I answered them
If you saw a dinosaur what would you do?
run away, or try to kill it
What would you do if you got caught in a spider web and you had a magnifying glass and a knife?
I would cut my way out
What if you saw a big giraffe and it was bending it's neck for you to get on, what would you do?
If I needed to get somewhere or see something I might get on, but I wouldn't do it just for fun
What if you saw a tiger and it was friendly and you just ran away?
I would still run away just in case.
What if it got mad and tried to eat you, tigers are fast?
I would try to hide
What if you saw a crab and you only had a knife, because crabs have bones on the outside and knife wouldn't cut them?
I would run away
What if you saw a car going faster, what would you do?
I would try to get it's attention so they could help me
