LOOKING FOR DIAMONDS
“...this cozy, loving tale of a young girl’s visit to her grandparent’s farm where she takes pleasure in the roaring fire; sleeping with her grandmother in the softest bed in the world, and, obviously basking in the couple’s company...A fairyland of memory.” --School Library Journal
Activities
- Look up the countries and states where diamonds are found and mark the places on a map of the world.
- Make soap bubble diamonds.
- Look for other “diamonds” to bring to class - prisms, quartz, glass, coal, rhinestones - for a diamond museum.
- Hang a branch or small tree in the window and decorate with substitute diamonds - crystals, rhinestones, glass.
- Identify the wildflowers in Looking for Diamonds. Make a chart of the wildflowers and draw pictures of them.
- Make a small crazy-quilt top from scrap fabric. Stitch “bird tracks” along the seams.
- Make a list of what Amy sees on her walk.
- Discuss how things are like other things, but also different. For example diamonds and coal, redwing blackbirds and orioles, mousetracks and birdtracks.
- Discuss why Amy would have been disappointed or not if she hadn’t found any diamonds.
ISBN:0-525-65173-X Ages 5-9
Cobblehill Books, $14.99
Illustrations copyright 1995 by Nancy Mantha
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