Unit: This unit is for children ages 7-11. It would work nicely
as a supplement to studying China or Fairy Tales or as a slightly scary
story for Halloween.
Dictation - Olders
Day 1 : "Remember to close the door at sunset and latch it well."
Day 2: But an old wolf lived nearby and saw the good mother leave.
Day 3: The wolf acted surprised.
Day 4: At the moment he entered the door, the wolf blew out the candle.
Day 5: The wolf was delighted.
Dictation - Youngers
Day 1: The good mother went to visit the grandmother.
Day 2: The children were home alone.
Day 3: The wolf tricked the children.
Day 4: The children tricked the wolf.
Day 5: The mother brought food home for the children.
Grammar - Olders and Youngers- Sentence Making with Commas
Shang, Tao and Paotze lived in Northern China.
How many nouns are in the subject of the sentence? (3)
When 2 or more nouns are used in the subject of a sentence they are
said to be of the same kind and are called a series.
Rule: When 2 or more words of the same kind are used together
they are separated by commas and often joined by words like and, or,
or but.
Olders: Fill in the blanks and use these sentences in your paragraphs
on Day 3 and Day 4.
__________, __________, and __________ are my favorite nuts.
Wolves are _________, __________, and __________.
Youngers: Fill in the blanks and use this sentence in your writing on
Day 1 and Day 4.
__________, __________, and __________ are red foods.
Wolves are __________, __________, and __________.
Writing Prompts - Olders
Day 1: Write four sentences about the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Day 2: Write four sentences about a time you were tricked.
Day 3: Write four sentences about your favorite nuts.
Day 4: Write four sentences about wolves.
Day 5: Write four sentences about a time you were clever.
Writing Prompts - Youngers
Day 1: Write a list of five red foods or things.
Day 2: Write two sentences about visiting your grandmother's house.
Day 3: Write two sentences about how to climb a tree.
Day 4: Write a list of five things you know about wolves.
Day 5: Write two sentences about China.
Spelling
Day 1: Copy the words in your notebook
Day 2: Write the words one time each
Day 3: Take a spelling test.
Day 4: Take a spelling test on the words you missed from Day 3
Day 5: Play spelling bee with your spelling words and the words you
misspelled during dictation this week.
Spelling Words - Olders
1. disquised
2. remember
3. latched
4. different
5. journey
6. cnning
7. mement
8. embraced
9. stretched
10. hairy
Spelling Words - Youngers
1. mother
2. children
3. grandmother
4. country
5. sunset
6. tonight
7. visit
8. along
9. answer
10. candle
Vocabulary
Look up one word a day in the dictionary and then do the following each
day with your word:
1. Write the part of speech of that word.
2. Write a brief definition of the word.
3. Find the word used in a sentence in the book, read the sentence out
loud.
4. Use the word in a sentence, orally.
Vocabulary - Olders
1. hemp
2. awl
3. gingko
4. pluck
5. clever
Vocabulary - Youngers
1. route
2. plump
3. bush
4. thorn
5. brittle
Handwriting
Olders write the following sentences in your best cursive handwriting.
Youngers write the following sentences in your best manuscript handwriting.
Day 1: Lon Po Po means Granny wolf in Chinese.
Day 2: Lon Po Po is like the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Day 3: The story of Lon Po Po is over one thousand years old.
Day 4: The setting of the book Lon Po Po is in Northern China.
Day 5: Ed Young wrote and illustrated the book Lon Po Po.
Drawing
Ed Young combines detailed pastel drawings with watercolor pictures
that suggest objects.
Notice the picture of the mother waving goodbye to her children. The
children and the mother are drawn in more detail than the trees, sky
and landscape.
Also look at the picture of the children up in the gingko tree. The
children are drawn in more detail than the gingko tree and leaves.
Look too at the picture of the wolf pacing under the gingko tree, he
is drawn in more detail than the tree and the grass.
Drawing Activity
Using watercolors paint a picture of your backyard. Include the shapes
of the landscape but not the details. You just want to paint the suggestion
of the details.
Using pastels draw a detailed drawing of one object in your backyard.
You draw this over the watercolor background you made above. Here you
want to add the details of the object.
Geography
Locate China on the map.
Create a story disk for Lon Po Po and place it on China on the map.
Draw a picture of China and label the following:
The capital of China ( Beijing)
The Himalayas Mountains
The Yangtze River
Hong Kong
The Pacific Ocean
Color a flag of China and paste it on your drawing of China.
Write the following on the bottom of your Map.
China is in the continent of Asia. Asia is the largest continent.
Extension Activity
Read the European version of Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault
wrote a good one which can be found in The Golden Book of Fairy Tales
by Adrienne Sequr. How are the two Red Riding Hood stories a like? How
are they different.?
For Further Reading
Try reading Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China retold by Ai-Ling
Louie and illustrated by Ed Young. Notice how Ed Young uses, traditional
Chinese three panel art and watercolor and pastels in Yeh-Shen as he
does in Lon Po Po.
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