My K-2 book club met this month to discuss Fancy Nancy Sees Stars by Jane O'Connor.
While the book is fairly simple and straightforward, I saw a lot of potential possibilities for activities to do with this group. And stars are just so much fun!
First, we obviously had to eat star-shaped sugar cookies. With frosting. And sprinkles! If Fancy Nancy eats them, we can too! Of course, I forgot to take pictures, but they were pretty yummy. I let the kids frost and sprinkle their own cookies, which they thoroughly enjoyed!
"Sprinkles make them sparkle." So true!
We read the book together once, and while the boys in the group were not thrilled about doing a Fancy Nancy book, they actually participated the most in the conversation! What I love about these books are the "fancy words," so we had some great discussion about vocabulary words. These words were all related to space and stars!
And there is a nice guide in the back of the book!
Next, we had fun with a game I made up: I split the kids into two teams, gave them each a felt board, and a bunch of felt stars. Their task was to create a constellation out of stars. The other team then had to guess what picture the constellation made. This was so much fun, we did it three times!
This was my sample - can you guess? It's a house!
I also had a Fancy Nancy MadLib game, but we didn't end up having time for it. You can find it, along with many other great teacher resources at Fancy Nancy World.
Our final activity was a simple, open-ended craft. On black paper, the kids could create a constellation of their own with star stickers and white crayons. They got really creative here and had a lot of fun with this!
This is my simple example - the big dipper!
This book club is so much fun to run, and fairly low-stress and low-prep. These kids are so excited about books and reading, and I love being a part of that!
Next month is our last meeting of the school year - we're reading Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems!
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