MORE ACTIVITIES FOR FOSTER THE DOG

1. If you couldn’t go outside to play, what are some things you could do indoors?

*making connections, critical/creative thinking

 

2. Choose your favourite couch. Cut out and colour each stuffie, and glue them sitting on your couch in a line in the order they entered the story.

*sequencing

 

Download - Stuffies Cut Out Sheet

Download - Couch #1   Couch #2   Couch #3

 

3. Are there more stuffies with 2 or 4 legs? Chart your information on a graph.

If you added all the stuffie legs together, how many would there be?

*activating background knowledge, counting, comparing, graphing, adding

 

Download the "Legs" Activity 

 

4. Use the Venn diagram to show how many of the stuffies you could you find on a farm, the zoo, or both. 

*sorting, organizing

 

Download the Venn Diagram

 

5. Use the chart to show which stuffies are mammals, birds, amphibians, or reptiles.

*classifying

 

Download the "What Are You" Activity

 

6. Which of Foster’s stuffies is your favourite?

Give it a name and draw a picture of it doing something it might like to do. Can you add a rhyming couplet to the bottom?

*forming opinions, making connections, drawing, writing

 

7. The way Foster’s is used in the book is a contraction. What 2 words were pushed together to make it?

Do you know 3 more contractions and the 2 words that make them up?

* Spelling

 

8. Reread FOSTER THE DOG noting the locations of the dogs.

(For example: kitty corner from here, at the end of the lane, at the park, over two blocks) Make a map of Foster’s neighbourhood. How many friends can you put on this map?


*critical thinking, planning, mapping, rereading for a specific purpose