Dairy of a Worm by: Doreen Cronin

This book is about a warm who pretty much writes down everything that he does on a daily bases. From trying to help the earth to trying to walk upside down this worm wants to make sure he captures all of his many daily adventures. He learns that keeping a close tab of everything that he does is a cool way to revisit some of the things he did days or months ago.

Doreen Cronin did a great job with allowing children to take an adventure with the worm and seeing not only the view point from the worm but also to imagine what it would be like to do the things that the worm does.

To really tie everything together the illustrator Harry Bliss did a fantastic job with all of the colors and lines throughout this book. The colors were great however the best part I think for a child were the many details that he was able to do. 

Discussion: 

Think of a time when you helped out your family. How did you feel when you were done helping?

Do you think that the worm did a great job at writing done all of the things that he did and saw?

How do you feel about writing everything that you do all day?

Activity:

Provide the students with construction paper. Have them fold it in half as if they were going to make a book. Provide them also with blank sheets of paper. On the front of the contrition paper have them create their very own front page of their diary. At the end of everyday have they draw something that happened on that day. Have your students so this for a week.