Amelia Bedelia and The Surprise Shower
Written by Peggy Parrish
Illustrated by Barbara Siebel Thomas
Grades: K-3
Amelia Bedelia will have everyone laughing out loud, until the last page.This is because Amelia takes everything literally. In this story, Miss Alma, Amelia's boss is going to have a shower at the House. So Amelia Bedelia almost crashes the party with her cousin, Alcou. She helps Alcou "prune" the hedges, ices raw fish with chocolate frosting, runs with the iron on Mrs Rogers's favorite tablecloth, and sprays all the party guests with the hose. Amelia Bedelia knows how to do one thing the right way, and that is to make chocolate cupcakes.
This can be used in the classroom when going over idioms. Idioms are figures of speech or common expressions that can easily be misunderstood by someone who has not heard them before. Generate a list of idioms that students find in the Amelia Bedelia books. Then assign each student the task of learning a new idiom by asking a family member for a favorite idiom and what it means.
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