Three Silly Billies

Three Silly BilliesBook Project Possibilities:

Verbal/Linguistic

Use the following words to complete the stoplight vocabulary sheet from http://www.pampetty.com/polarexpressstoplight.htm 

Use the following words and write a definition for each one, use each in a sentence, and draw a picture for each one.

Use the following words to create a word search using this website: http://www.wku.edu/~amber.burden/wordsearch.htm.   

jalopy   Detour    moolah     battinskis    glugged    cavorted 

Visual/Spatial

Address these FIGURES of SPEECH:  troll booth, car pool, makes a lot of cents to me, pool your resources with ours, put in your two cents over here, coughing up some coins
Discuss the real meaning of the phrase, but have students illustrate their “silly” meaning using Appleworks Painting/Drawing.

ONOMATOPOEIAS
Use this website to introduce/discuss onomatopoeias: http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/onomato/poeia.html. 
Go through the story and pick out the ONOMATOPOEIAS.  Choose at least 5 of those ONOMATOPOEIAS and create a comic strip using the “Storyboard” template from Pages or Comic Life.  (Idea taken from http://www.abcteach.com/Writing/onomatopoeia.htm).

Logical/Mathematical

Use Kidspiration to show how much money each character brings for the toll.  One could set up a table similar to the one below:

CHARACTERS	SHOW THE AMOUNT OF MONEY USING THE COINS STATED
Include a picture of billy goats.	50 cents total
Include a picture of The Three Bears	15 cents total
Include a picture of Little Red Riding Hood	33 cents total
Include a picture of Jack	2 cents total
TOTAL	$1.00 total

 

Naturalist 

Need new information here.

Musical 

Create a song using GarageBand for one of the scenes in the book (i.e. the interaction between the troll and the billy goats).  The words from the book can be the lyrics for the song.

Bodily/Kinesthetic 

Write a script of the story to be used as a Reader's Theater.  It could be performed for another grade (i.e. older buddies), filmed, and posted as a podcast.

Intrapersonal 

Pretend that you are either one of the billy goats, one of the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, or Jack.  Write an editorial to the paper explaining your feelings of the troll and his requirement of a fee to cross his bridge.  Include your reaction to the ending of the story.

Interpersonal 

Pretend you are a news reporter and conduct an interview with the troll after his interaction with the billy goats, The Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack AND his run-in with the troll.  Make sure you ask questions that get his side of the story and his reaction to all of the events.

Additional Resources of Interest:

http://www.kidsbank.com/index_2.asp  (A website that has stories about different kinds of money.  Perfect for younger kids.)

http://www.margiepalatini.com/  (About the author.)

http://www.margiepalatini.com/threesillybilliesbookmark.html  (Download a bookmark.)

"The Three Silly Girls Grubb" by John and Ann Hassett is another version of the original, "The Three Billy Goats Gruff."