<p> CHALLENGING WORDS</p><p> autumn bucket difference frighten gasping halfway happened haunted muttering pretending</p><p>SUMMARY</p><p>A little boy and his sister are sent to the end of town for a bucket of milk. The boy is scared because they have to walk past the ghost eye tree. He makes it past, but he never wants to go again.</p><p>1 --- Conversation Questions---</p><p>(1) Explain why the boy didn't want to go get the milk. (Answer) He was scared to walk past the ghost eye tree. (Follow Up) Tell me about a place that you would be scared to walk past at night.</p><p>(2) Guess why the mother waited until dark to send the children to get the milk. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) What chores do you do?</p><p>(3) Suppose why they didn't buy their milk at a store. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Where do you buy groceries?</p><p>(4) Assume you were the little boy, what would you do when you got to the tree? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Tell me about a time when you were scared.</p><p>(5) Define gasping. (Answer) Breathing fast. (Follow Up) Use gasping in a sentence.</p><p>(6) Search for what animal was outside the door when the children left. (Answer) A black cat. (Follow Up) What is your favorite animal?</p><p>(7) Hunt for who the boy tried to look like when he pulled his hat down. (Answer) Mike Barber. (Follow Up) Who would you like to look like?</p><p>(8) Name the man that they got the milk from. (Answer) Mr. Cowlander. (Follow Up) What did he say he was going to put the milk in?</p><p>(9) Find the page where the boy is hiding from his mother. (Answer) Page 30. (Follow Up) What do you think the cat is thinking?</p><p>(10) Tell me what happened to the milk when they ran. (Answer) It splashed out. (Follow Up) What did they do about it?</p><p>2 Activities</p><p>1. Draw the characters and give each a name.</p><p>2. Make a timeline of the boys' activities.</p><p>3. Write a different ending to the story.</p><p>4. Draw the ghost eye tree and write the title above it.</p><p>Introduction</p><p>1. Show child book. Ask child to guess what the story is about. Let's read and see if you are right.</p><p>2. Show child a picture a bucket. Ask child what they think a boy and a girl could get in a bucket. Let's read and see what they get and see what happens on their trip to fill the bucket.</p><p>3. Show child some pictures of trees. Ask them if trees can be scary. Today we are going to read about a tree that scares a boy and a girl.</p><p>Book Title: The Ghost Eye Tree Author: Bill Martin & John Archambault Illustrator: Ted Rand ISBN: 0-8050-0208-1 # of Text Pages: 15 AR: 2.0 LEX: NP Building Oral Vocabulary 10 muttering 21 gasping 2 Autumn Prediction Questions 6 What will happen when they get close to the tree? 16 What does he hear? 25 Where is she going?</p><p>This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—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.</p><p>3</p>