Book Group--The Jungle Book

A few days ago, we gathered to discuss, create collages and fruit kabobs based on  The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.  Our family only got through the first two chapters of the book by listening to them on Librivox.com.   We didn't get it done because I miss judged our time and we also read the book

 "The Worst Best School Year Ever". by Barbara Robinson.  We've had a decline in enthusiasm for read aloud and I wanted to read a book that would really spark their interest.  We've read Robinson's book 

 Worst  Best Christmas Pagent Ever" and they all loved it...so I thought the school year one would

 be just as good...and it was. ...however, that took much of our time and thus we weren't prepared for

 The Jungle Book.  No matter, they still had fun and learned some of the things that Disney didn't include in their rendition.  We learned that Rudyard Kipling probably used many happenings in his life as the basis of this story...showing the importance of learning about authorship and how it applies to learning about literature.

Organizing events into a chronological order from the story.

We talked about the flowers, fruits and animals that are found in the jungle.  

Everyone enjoyed creating a collage of jungle animals.

Mmmm, I think I would be in heaven with all the yummy fruits and nuts that are abundant in the jungle climate areas.  Seeing how we pay quite a bit for macadamia nuts, papaya, and the such,  it made me wonder how much  they pay for fruit grown here..like apples, pears and peaches.  Well Christine, who served her mission in Venezuela, craved an apple once and paid $2.00 for one red delicious apple...that was over 20 years ago.

A massive towering fruit kabob.....delish!