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Kids’ Activity GuideAll Kinds of Strong is the story of a young girl named Sadie Rose. This story shows that strength and wisdom can come from the most unexpected places.

In All Kinds of Strong, Sadie Rose is portrayed as a sick child who is often underestimated. Your child will be able to relate to Sadie Rose and her desire to help the adults in her life with their chores and responsibilities. Sadie Rose has a close relationship with an elder, Mrs. Mindel. With the help of Mrs. Mindel, Sadie Rose is able to prove that although she is small, she is “all kinds of strong.” Sadie Rose helps her entire village solve a problem after Mrs. Mindel tragically loses her house to a fire.

Pre-reading Questions1. What kinds of things can you find on a farm?

2. What is your favorite farm animal?

3. What does a farmer do?

4. What do you eat and drink to help you grow?

5. What chores do you have?

6. Name something that you do with your family every week.

7. How do you help yourself remember something very important?

8. Do you know what it means to be strong?

9. What could happen if you forget to do an important chore?

10. What would you do to help your friend out after his or her house caught on fire and burned down?

The questions above will set the stage for reading All Kinds of Strong and introduce your child to some of the concepts in the book.

Farming Background Discussion:Use the questions to the right to introduce your child to background information on farming, chores, and strength.

Key Points:• Discuss the difference between pets and farm

animals. Link to National Geographic website on farm animals:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/photos/gallery/farm-animals/

• Here is a link for games to build memory skills:

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/memory_games/memory_games_simon.html

• Discuss the different types of chores that must be done around a house to keep it clean and organized. Use the picture list of chores and how often they need to be done.

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Farm Animal Math Activity:Help your child work on math skills by counting by fives and tens to organize the farm animals into cow pens and chicken coops.

Materials:Eight to ten pieces of white paperCrayons, colored pencils, or markersChicken and cow cutouts (provided)Scissors

Instructions:1. Cut out the chicken and cow cutouts.

2. Using the cutouts as a stencil, trace twenty chickens and twenty cows.

3. On one sheet of paper, draw a chicken coop and on the other draw a cow pen.

4. Each coop can hold ten chickens; each pen can hold five cows.

5. Count the chickens into two groups of ten.

6. Counting by tens, move the chickens into the coop.

7. Count the cows into four groups of five.

8. Counting by fives, move the cows into the pen.

9. Draw additional pens and coops until all the animals have a home. Use the following pictures as examples for a cow pen and chicken coop:

Farm Math Activity Follow-up Questions:

1. How many chicken coops with 10 chickens in each did you need to draw?

2. How many cow pens with 5 cows in each did you need to draw?

3. Discuss whether you think you could fit more than 10 chickens in a chicken coop on a real farm? Why or why not?

Cow

Cutout

Chicken Cutout

Cow Pen Example:

Chicken Coup Example:

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Post-reading Farm Animals Anagram Activity:Help your child unscramble the letters to find the words of the animals below, and fill in the blank.

Word List: chicken, cow, duck, horse, mouse, pig, rabbit, rooster, sheep

p e e s h

c k u d

b b a r t i

e r s o h

i g p

r e t o r o s

s o u m e

w c o

e n c k i c h

Now find the hidden words by unscrambling the circled letters in each animal above. (Hint: It’s the name of one of the characters in the book.)

Hidden Words:

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Wipe the Table

Hang the Apron

Sweep the Floor

Close the Oven Door

Household Chores Match-up Activity:Match up the description of the chores on the left by drawing a line to the picture that matches on the right.

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Name of the Chore Day(s) of the week to do the chore

If the chore is completed... If it isn’t...

Post-reading Chore Chart Activity:Sadie had a whole lot of chores to complete around her home. Help your child fill in the chart below with chores that need to be done around the house. Make a plan for which day of the week each chore will be completed and what the award is for completing the chore and the consequence for not completing the chore.

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What Is Strength?After reading this story, use what you already knew, along with what you learned from Sadie Rose and Mrs. Mindel, to define what it means to be strong.

Create Your Own Torah Activity:The Torah is considered the basis of Jewish life and culture. A Torah scroll contains the five books of Moses, carefully written on parchment in Hebrew, and is often read from in synagogues during religious services. This activity will allow you and your child to make a craft Torah scroll.

Materials:Parchment paper

Crayons

2 small wooden dowel rods

Stapler

Tape

Instructions:1. Tear a strip of parchment paper approximately

3 feet in length off of the roll (if using individual sheets, staple four sheets of paper together).

2. Use crayons to draw important holidays, traditions, and rules that you and your family observe.

3. Tape the ends of the strip of parchment paper to the wooden dowels.

4. Roll the ends of the wooden dowels toward each other. Congratulations, you have just made a Torah!

Examples of Strength Strength Looks Like (Draw a Picture)

Definition of Strength Use Strength in a Sentence

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This guide was created by Chris Valcarcel, Educational Consultant, and Jennifer Messinger, Graphic Designer.

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