Read Aloud Wednesday– ‘How Martha Saved Her Parents From Green Beans’
This month’s Read Aloud Wednesday is in honor of Thanksgiving. Knowing that many of you will have green beans on your table, your family will appreciate this book.
“Eat your beans like Martha!”
“Remember what happened with Martha didn’t eat her beans!”
This book was written by Tori’s favorite author of all time–David LaRochelle. I can’t blame her for loving his work. He’s an incredible author and person, for that matter.
Okay, everyone! It’s time to try your hand at two different voices.
I absolutely, positively KNOW you can do this.
All you need to do is pick two different voices. They can be a high voice and a low voice. A voice that speaks really quickly and one that is really slow. A voice that sounds like you are pinching your nose or a voice with a lisp. Combine anything and give two characters personality. You don’t need to give personality to all of them. Just pick two.
If it were me, I would choose Martha and the Green Beans. Give all the Green Beans the same voice. Since they are a band of rascals, I wouldn’t worry about them having different voices.
However, if you want to skip voices for the beans all together and just give her parents voices, go for it. This is your baby! I know you can do it.
If this book makes you hungry and you want to venture into the kitchen with you kids, you may be interested in taking a family cooking class.
Way-Cool Cooking School has some great options for parent/child classes.
Children as young as three can join in the family class. They also offer children’s classes for those ages 7-14.
Located in Eden Prairie and Savage, the class cost is on the high end, but it would make a great gift for someone or a special one on one outing.
For More INFO
Joy has also reviewed this book and offers a few more fun suggestions for activities to mix with this book including this fun worksheet on the life-cycle of a bean.
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[…] I would highly recommend reading this book to your kids or, if you’re really lucky, having your kids read it to you.What would you do if a band of evil green beans kidnapped your parents? That’s the question Martha is faced with after she refuses to eat her green beans and they attack. That’s about as much as I can tell you without giving away the whole book. However, Gianna has also reviewed this book, read her ideas for reading it out loud with kids here. […]