By Lois Lowry
Gooney chook Greene returns for extra adventures during this chapter-book sequence from two-time Newbery Medal–winner Lois Lowry, with Middy Thomas’s black-and-white illustrations bringing the study room to existence all through. Mrs. Pidgeon’s moment grade type has much to have fun in February: presidents’ birthdays, Valentine’s Day, and faculty holiday. after all, the scholars are conversing approximately their outstanding holiday plans each likelihood they get. it may be challenging to target subtraction difficulties while you’re heading to Hawaii or Florida in seventeen minus seven days! yet many of the category (twelve minus 3 of them, actually) could be staying domestic in the course of holiday. Can Gooney fowl Greene continue spirits up whereas everyone seems to be feeling down? Gooney fowl has an excellent concept that sends her classmates and her on a snowy spin via U.S. heritage and geography!
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Furillo is in command of the spray paint,” Mrs. Pidgeon acknowledged. Gooney fowl agreed. “Okay,” she acknowledged. Mr. Furillo leaned opposed to the playground fence and Bruno sat beside him. They watched whereas Mrs. Pidgeon, consulting the map in her ebook, used a ruler to rigorously gouge the description of an incredible usa into the packed snow. “Florida will be a bit longer! ” Beanie referred to as. Mrs. Pidgeon seemed back on the map, nodded, and lengthened Florida. “Don’t fail to remember that we'd like the Hawaiian Islands! ” Barry acknowledged loudly, pointing to the left-hand facet of the map. “You can positioned them over there, out within the Pacific Ocean! ” Mrs. Pidgeon had comprehensive the coast of California together with her ruler, and now she stabbed out little circles to make Hawaii. Ben was once interpreting the pinnacle of the map. “See the place Maine pokes up? ” he stated to the instructor. “You did an excellent activity on Maine. yet over there, you wish a straighter line for the head of Vermont. ” Mrs. Pidgeon tested the northeast usa, consulted the map, and sliced a straighter line the place Ben used to be pointing. Then she appeared rigorously on the map she had carved from the snow. “Gooney chicken? each person? What do you think that? ” She handed the geography booklet round. one after the other the youngsters in comparison the pictured map with the snow map. They nodded their heads. “Excellent, Mrs. Pidgeon! ” Gooney fowl stated. “Good task! ” “U move, lady! ” Keiko acknowledged with a snort. “Your flip, Mr. Furillo,” Gooney chicken advised the custodian. “You can spray the description now. ” “Be relatively, relatively cautious on Hawaii,” Barry acknowledged nervously. “It’s relatively small. ” Mr. Furillo shook the paint can tough for a minute. “Stand again, all people! ” he stated. “I don’t are looking to get paint on anyone’s boots! ” the kids, and Mrs. Pidgeon, all retreated to the sting of the territory, to the mound that they referred to as Antarctica, and watched whereas Mr. Furillo rigorously defined the total usa in black paint. Then he shook the can back and did Hawaii. whilst he was once entire, he took a bow, and the kids clapped. “Alaska? ” Mr. Furillo requested. the youngsters shook their heads. They didn’t desire Alaska. “Look! ” Keiko stated, all at once. She pointed to the construction. there have been faces in each window of the small tuition. “Everybody’s gazing! ” “Mrs. Pidgeon! Mrs. Pidgeon! ” stated Felicia Ann in a apprehensive voice. “It’s virtually recess time. all of the children may be popping out. What if everyone steps on our map and wrecks it? ” “They won’t,” Gooney fowl informed her. “Mr. Leroy promised that whereas we have been out right here beginning our map, he’d get at the intercom and make a statement approximately it. Nobody’s allowed in this a part of the playground other than us—the moment grade. but if it’s all performed, then we’ll proportion it with the total tuition. ” Tyrone started to dance. “Gonna do a rap,” he chanted, “about the playground map! ” “About the playground map! ” the opposite little ones repeated. “Lets dance round the united states! ” Malcolm referred to as. the various kids danced around the map whereas Tyrone chanted, “This map be so cool, we be well-known in our college! ” Mr. Furillo, Mrs. Pidgeon, and Bruno watched from Antarctica.