First Book Club Meeting

We had our first book club meeting for kids ages 6-9 this morning.  The kids had read The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling.  We had about 12 kids participating today, so that was a great turnout.  All the kids sat around the table, and I asked them questions about the book.  They were all very eager to talk about it, especially two or three kids in particular.  I had to ask them to give other kids a turn, but it was wonderful, because they were all so excited about the book and discussing it.  After we discussed the book, we did a vocabulary sheet, because there were quite a few elaborate and long words in the book that were definitely over the reading level of most of the kids.  I thought they wouldn't like it because it wasn't technically "fun", but the kids did a great job trying to figure out the meanings of the words from the context of the story.  Next, we had a snack of chocolate coins (very relevant to the book), pretzels, and raisins.  We ended the meeting with a craft project- making bookmarks that looked like candy bars.