Flip and Flop
CHALLENGING WORDS
bouncingeither
excitedly
penguin
secret
shuffled
spluttered
toppled
wandered
whatever
SUMMARY
Whatever flip does, Flop does too. But one day Flip wants to play with a buddy his own size. That leaves Flop out in the cold. Does Flop find a friend of his own?--- Conversation Questions---
(1) / Describe your favorite game in the story.(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Describe your favorite game in real life.
(2) / Imagine you were Flop. Would your feelings be hurt if flip didn’t want to play with you?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Share a time you were hurt because a sibling didn’t want to play with you.
(3) / Assume you were Flip. Would you want to play with older kids sometimes?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Do you have a little brother or sister?
(4) / Suppose Hip wasn’t around. Do you think Flip would want to play with Flop?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Tell what you think they would play.
(5) / Explain how you play BOOMBA.
(Answer) / You jump into the snow, bouncing on your bottom, then shout BOOMBA!
(Follow Up) / Guess why people couldn’t play that game.
(6) / Place in order the games Flip and Flop played together.
(Answer) / Standing on one leg, making a snow penguin, secret hideout, BOOMBA.
(Follow Up) / Tell which of these games Flop couldn’t play.
(7) / Name the game Flip and Hip played.
(Answer) / Slip-slide.
(Follow Up) / Explain how you play that game.
(8) / Find how old Flip and Flop was.
(Answer) / Flip was 5, Flop was 2.
(Follow Up) / How old are you?
(9) / Look on page 13 and tell what Flop did.
(Answer) / Waddled and shuffled, shuffled and waddled, up and down, around and around, in and out.
(Follow Up) / Where did he wander?
(10) / Search for the new game all four invented.
(Answer) / Slip-slide- BOOMBA.
(Follow Up) / Explain how you play that game.
Activities
1. / Write the title of the book. Draw Flip or Flop and label.
2. / Make up your own game. Write down the rules to play.
3. / Make a list of the words that rhyme in the story.
4. / List the games Flip and Flop played in the story.
Introductions
1. / Have a toy penguin and bear. Ask if they think these two animals could be friends. Let’s read a story about two friends playing a made-up game.2. / Have a snow scene. Ask if they like to play in the snow. Say, “Today we will read about two new friends who like to play in the snow”.
3. / Have the letters BOOMBA on your desk. Ask if they know how to play this game. Let’s read the book Flip and Flop and find out how to play.
Book Title: Flip and Flop
Author: Dawn Apperly / Illustrator: Dawn ApperlyISBN: 0-439-47146-x / # of Text Pages: 26 AR: 2.3 LEX: AD210
Building Oral Vocabulary
3 / toppled / 6 / hideout / 23 / gloomy
Prediction Questions
6 / What do you think they played next?
14 / Do you think Flop will find a new friend to play with?
22 / Can you guess who they played with next?