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Guji Guji is a "crocoduck"! He is a crocodile adopted by a duck family. They love him very much and he loves them. Their differences do not matter to them.
Then one terrible day three bad crocodiles show up and tell Guji Guji that he must help them since he is a crocodile like them. They want him to lure the ducks to them so they can eat the ducks!
Guji Guji must think. Is he really like the bad crocodiles or is he like his duck family? He comes up with a plan to save the ducks. The crocodiles run off and the ducks celebrate with Guji Guji.
Guji Guji was the duck hero of the day! He continues to live with his duck family.
What does it really mean to be a family?
Guji Guji is a great adoption story! We adopted our youngest daughters and this book is a great way to start conversations about the subject of family and how different families are mad. It would make a great gift for a new family!
What kinds of stories do they tell in Taiwan?
Guji Guji was written by Chih-Yuan Chen and first published in Taiwan then translated into English. So this book also allows us a glimpse into a story from another culture.
Guji Guji can be heard at Storyline Online
And can be purchased for $15.95 at Tonya's Books
It is raining AGAIN today! To make the most of the weather we wrote and illustrated our own rain books.
Skills we worked on: creativity, writing, and drawing
First we read a few books and poems about rain looking for ways rain was described, what people were wearing, and who was running to get out of the rain.
We stapled a few sheets of paper together and used a gray-blue sheet of construction paper to be the cover.
We wrote down ten words about rain:
Splash
Pitter
Patter
Umbrella
Raincoat
Boots
Cat (a cat sitting in the rain)
Home (what our home looks like in the rain
Tree (a tree in the rain)
Run (people running in the rain)
Angel practiced her writing by doing it herself.
I made it fun by getting out the gel pens to make her writing sparkly and colorful.
I wrote out the words for Shelli and then she colored her own pictures.
The girls learned to be creative and worked on writing and reading skills in a new and exciting way.
You can order The Rainy Day for $9.99 at Tonya's Books
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