Baby Island Baby Island Independent Contract Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink Independent Contract Name: ___________________________ Number of activities to be completed: _______ Name: ___________________________ Number of activities to be completed: _______ About the Book 1 Art 2 Social Studies 7 Mary and Jean Wallace are cast off to sea in a lifeboat Jean discovers a secret compartment in the The Orminta becomes disabled in the Pacific Art 8 when the steamship they are on begins to sink. With them boat while looking for milk for the babies. Use Ocean. Using a map of the Pacific, trace a path When the girls at last discover the stream of Science craft sticks, toothpicks, or other craft supplies with your finger from San Francisco to Australia. are 20-month-old twins, a four-month-old baby, and a one- fresh water, Jean makes a flag of her blue Mary learns firsthand the realities of the to make a model of the lifeboat. Include the Research one island your finger crosses and year-old toddler! When they reach a deserted island, they handkerchief and claims the island for the ocean’s tides which she had previously only secret compartment, the items the girls find create a triarama. Fold a 12-inch square of begin to look for fresh water. Once they find a stream, they president of the United States and themselves. encountered in her school textbooks. Obtain in the boat, and other details described in construction paper in half to form a triangle. begin to explore the island further and make some of the Design your own flag for Baby Island. First, a copy of page 6 from your teacher and learn chapter 2. Then make paper cutouts of the Unfold and refold the paper so that the opposite things they will need, such as a tepee to sleep in, dishes, and research various state and provincial flags for more about the ocean’s tides. a playpen for the babies. They soon realize that they are not girls and the babies. Use the boat and paper corners touch. Unfold the paper again and cut the meanings of colors and symbols used on alone on the island. Through many trials and adventures, cutouts to act out one of the scenes from the along one fold line to the center. Overlap and flags. Then plan a detailed emblem, choosing the girls manage to take care of themselves and the babies book. glue the two bottom triangles. Then use the colors and other design elements that match until help arrives and they are rescued. information you gathered to create an island the Baby Island adventure. Finally, following scene, adding three-dimensional elements to your plan, use fabric and fabric paints or complete your triarama. markers to make the new flag of Baby Island. 3 Art 4 Writing About the Author The girls build a tepee and a stockade While they are stranded on Baby Island, Jean 9 Social Studies 10 (playpen). Make a model of one of these items manages to write to her aunt a few times. She Mary and Jean Wallace refer to William Writing Carol Ryrie Brink was born on December 28, 1895, in Moscow, Idaho, and was orphaned at an early using only the supplies listed below. Reread sends her letters floating on the Pacific Ocean Wallace numerous times and even sing a Among the items Mary finds in her pocket is the portions of chapters 6 and 7 that describe in empty cans. Use index cards to make eight age. She grew up in the care of her aunt and grandmother, who were wonderful storytellers. Carol Scottish song about him to remind themselves a small notebook with a calendar in the back. these items to make sure that your model has postcards. On the front of each card, illustrate always wanted to be a writer. Her most famous book, Caddie Woodlawn, is based on a story she heard to be brave. Research Sir William Wallace. She records the names and ages of each of the same features. Then share your model an important event in the girls’ adventure, such often of her grandmother Caddie’s Wisconsin childhood. Then draw an outline of a coat of arms and the six castaways in it. Pretend to be Mary and Carol attended the University of Idaho and received a bachelor of arts with the class. as building the tepee by the waterfall. On the divide it into four sections. On each of the four write one day’s entry in your notebook diary. back of each card, write a message to Aunt degree from the University of California Berkeley in 1918. She later sections, illustrate a different fact about his Choose a day that is especially eventful for the 10” fabric square clay string Emma about the event. Then make a can by married Raymond Brink, a mathematician. She published her first life; then cut out the coat of arms. Write an island adventurers. Tell the details of the day sticks cutting two can shapes, larger than the index book in 1934 and eventually wrote more than 30 fiction and nonfiction informative paragraph about the Scottish hero, and also of Mary’s feelings of delight, fear, and cards, out of construction paper. Tape the side books for children and adults as well as several plays. She received glue it to the back of your shield, and share it longing that she expresses only in her diary. the Newbery Award in 1936 for Caddie Woodlawn. In 1965, Carol was and bottom edges, leaving the top open. Place with the class. awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of your postcards inside the can. Idaho. She died in 1981. 5 Music 6 Language Arts 11 Jean likes to make up silly songs to sing when In this tale of adventure, Carol Ryrie Brink Science Student Contract Materials List 12 she is happy. Reread some of her songs in challenges the reader with some interesting Baby Island provides plenty of food for the Social Studies • Activity #7: reference materials on state chapters 5, 7,12, and 13. Notice how she uses new words. Obtain a copy of page 5 from your and provincial flags, 12" x 18" castaways, from bananas to gull eggs. The When Jean first finds large human footprints on • Activity #1: craft sticks, toothpicks, or other rhythm and rhyming words to make her songs teacher and take on the challenge of solving a white fabric, fabric paints or coconut is one delightful treat that puts them the beach, she thinks they belong to Robinson craft supplies; white paper; flow. Think about some of the things that make vocabulary puzzle. scissors; glue; crayons permanent markers in good spirits. They eat it right out of the shell, Crusoe’s Friday or to a pirate. Fortunately, they copy of page 6 you happy. Then make up a silly song of your • Activity #2: map of the Pacific Ocean, reference • Activity #8: cooked in pudding, and baked in a banana belong to a grumpy Englishman, Mr. Peterkin. reference materials on Sir own about one of these things. Remember to materials on Pacific islands, 12" • Activity #9: 1 coconut pie. Find a coconut dessert recipe you Even so, the chest of gold doubloons he /2 sheet of Name Baby Island square of light-colored construction William Wallace, make it rhyme. Finally, sing your song for the might like. Then have an adult help you crack found proves there were once pirates on the paper, scissors, glue, construction poster board, scissors, crayonsBaby Island or class. open a fresh coconut. Save the milk and peel island. Sketch a treasure map of Baby Island. paper markers, glue Time and Tide Wait for No One off the husk. Prepare the recipe for your class Include and label places mentioned in the book paper, pencil “Baby Island” Name • Activity #3: 10” fabric square, clay, string, • Activity #10: to sample. Share the sweet leftover coconut and choose a spot for the chest of gold to be sticks • Activity #11: fresh whole coconut, recipe book, The ocean’s tides are caused mainly by the moon’s gravitational pull on the earth. Read about Answer Keys cooking items required for recipe meat and milk, too! buried. Then add natural items—such as sand, Activity #4: eight Puzzling3" x 5" index cards, crayons Vocabulary high and low tides below. Use the information to complete the tide charts. Then use the tide charts • 1 twigs, rocks, and shells—to make your map /2 sheet of poster board; glue; Page 5 or colored pencils, permanent black • Activity #12: to help Baby Island’s residents plan their activities for the four days shown on the charts. The jigsaw puzzle belowmarker, contains construction six interesting paper words from Baby Islandfine-tipped. Choose markers; six natural Students’ vocabulary wordsthree-dimensional. and definitions will vary. items such as sand, twigs, rocks, additional words• Activity and #5: write paper, them pencil on the remaining numbered puzzle pieces. Then, on the pieces Accept all reasonable responses. and shells ® • Activity #6: copy of page 5, scissors, crayons or High ©The Mailbox Low Low Tide 3 that match each numberedcolored word, pencils write the corresponding definition. On the back of the puzzle, 2 Tide 1. windlass: a machine used for hoisting or hauling ® Tide lightly draw and color your favorite scene from the book.©The Mailbox Cut out the puzzle pieces and enjoy the 2. berth: a place to sit©The or Mailbox sleep® on a ship or vehicle 2 challenge of reconstructing it. 3.