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SUMMARY
Madeline is the only one well. She gets a visit from a rug merchant. When she nurses him back to health he grants her a favor. --- Conversation Questions---
(1) Retell your favorite part of the story. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Show me where that part was.
(2) Guess why Madeline wished for the merchant to help her with the dishes. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Who takes care of you when you are sick?
(3) Estimate how long the girls were sick. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Tell me who does the dishes at your house.
(4) Pretend a magician gave you one wish. Tell me what it will be. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) What made you wish that?
(5) What is a “trance”? (Answer) A daze or hypnosis. (Follow Up) Use the word “trance” in a sentence.
(6) Hunt for the reason that Madeline was taking care of everyone. (Answer) They were sick. (Follow Up) Name someone who takes care of you when you are sick.
(7) Explain what Madeline said the rugs would be good for. (Answer) Ice cold in the morning feet. (Follow Up) What would make you have cold feet in the morning?
(8) Tell me where Madeline lived. (Answer) In as old house in Paris. (Follow Up) How many girls lived there?
(9) Search for what happened to the rug merchant when he sold the rugs. (Answer) He got very chilly. (Follow Up) Where did the rug merchant go back to?
(10) Find where the magic rugs took the girls. (Answer) To their parents. (Follow Up) Name what day it was. Activities
1. Draw the twelve little girls. Write a name for each one.
2. Draw and label a Christmas tree. Make sure to decorate it.
3. Write about a time that you did not receive a whole lot of presents for Christmas. But you actually gave a lot.
4. The girls went to the doctor so he could help them get better. Write a list of things that he wants them to do and tell them how to take their medicine.
Introductions
1. Bring in a rug. Have children to sit on it. Ask them if they believe in a magic carpet. Ask them where they would go if they had a magic carpet. Tell them that in our story today we will read about Madeline and her magic carpet. Let’s read and see where she goes on that carpet.
2. When the children come in, ask them if they have ever helped take care of someone that was sick. Ask them if they received any rewards after the person was well. Tell them that in our story today we will read how after Madeline does a good deed, she gets something special. Let’s read and find out what she gets.
3. Write down abracadabra on a piece of paper. Ask child if they know this word. Today we are going to read ‘Madeline’s Christmas’.
Book Title: Madeline’s Christmas Author: Ludwig Bemelmans Illustrator: Ludwig Bemelmans ISBN: 0-14-050666-7 # of Text Pages: 25 AR: 3.2 LEX: AD810 Building Oral Vocabulary 3 creature 11 merchant 14 francs Prediction Questions 5 What did Madeline do while everyone was sick? 9 Who is at the door? 17 Why do you think they told you that he was a magician? This resource is provided by KYREADS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.