Adventures with Jack Stalwart Bookclub
After reading through all of the Magic Tree House books, my bookclub has moved on to Jack Stalwart by Elizabeth Singer Hunt. I love this series as it is not only full of high tech gadgets but the students are transported to different countries and cultures. It opens up so many opportunities for us to learn about different people and cultures. Granted the first book is set in the USA so we combined all things NYC and dinosaurs for this bookclub. Questions I wrote my own questions for this bookclub. I am still figuring out if the questions I am using are helpful or not but it seemed to go ok with this first gathering! I also had a word search, a New York City coloring page, and a fact sheet about New York City. The word search is from Student Handouts and Education.com had several options about NYC. Art Activities There are teacher guides available for these books. The first one can be found here . Nothing really jumped out at me for what I wanted to do so I found
