We looked up what a blue plate special is ~ and will cook up a fried chicken dinner tonight to complete this study! (Homer's mom serves fried chicken to the tourists at their camp and Miss Terwilliger is famous for her fried chicken dinners. Welcome to Centerburg Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want where houses are built in a day and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk.

The theme we came up with was 'life in small town America.' since each chapter is like a story in itself, they picked a couple stories to focus on, but the boys did a great job (I think this was their first official book report!). mass produced subdivision with no street signs, and a town called Edible Fungus?īook Report: Filled out a 'book report' outline ~ focusing on character, setting, intro, point of view, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. The story of how Homer and his pet skunk trap an interesting group of robbers. The book is composed of six funny, witty and charming episodes in the life of Homer Price ~ a small town Mid-Western American boy.Ĭh. We actually read this book our first year homeschooling (with Sonlight) as a read-aloud, but my boys had forgotten! We used the vocabulary, cultural literacy, comprehension and narration questions from SL and the lesson plans from Lesson Pathways (linked below) as a guide. I say 'sorta' because I did not follow the manual (because I don't own it). With my oldest being out of town for the week, I took the opportunity to take a break from our regular schooling and sorta 'row' Homer Price , by Robert McCloskey (a Beyond Five in a Row book) with Nathan and Dylan. Homer Price by Robert McCloskey 4.2 (10) Paperback 7.99 Paperback 7.99 eBook 7.99 Audiobook 0.00 View All Available Formats & Editions Premium Members save an additional 10 and earn stamps to save even more.

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