One of our Language Arts projects for this year is to compare and contrast books and movies. I noticed that there are many good movies coming out this year based on wonderful books! We have already started, with reading the book 'Coraline' and I picked up the dvd of the movie which we will read as soon as we finish the book (any day). It is easy to prepare simple unit studies around books.
Next we will read 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' This is a book we have had on the shelf for a long while and read many times - Susannah read it at school years ago and loved it and so I bought a copy for home!! The movie comes out next week so we can go and see that straight away - and I have a unit study prepared for it.
After that I want to do 'Where the Wild Things Are' - another favourite of ours!!! I found a wonderful unit study at the education store and it has some wonderful ideas with games and puzzles, story prompts, poem prompts and other unit study ideas in it!!
After that we will work on Alice in Wonderland ready for the wonderful Johnny Depp movie. That one will probably take longer as it's a bigger book and Christmas will be a busier time anyway!!
So that will keep us going over the next few months!!
