Hello Deep Cove Community!!
Welcome to your One Book, One School hub!! I am so excited to be sharing this book with you and hope you will love it as much as I did! So... You have received your package and are ready to read!
Now what?
Under the drop down menu for The Wild Robot, you will see the the four weeks listed. On each of these pages, you will find the suggested pages to read for the week, the activities, and the videos of me reading. In addition to the school and family activities sent home in your package, I have included a few more bonus things to do should your family choose. Do your best to read as a family, but no child will be excluded from the school activities, whether they have read the book or not.
The Wild Robot is a lovely story about friendship, family, perseverance, and community. It has a beautiful message and overall is a fun, exciting book to read as a family. It is worth mentioning however, that there are some parts I foresee could be unsettling for our younger readers, or perhaps introduce ideas/events that you would rather not share with your child, yet. Below, I have included a list of events which you may want to alter to fit the emotional needs of your child. I have read this book with a variety of age groups, but you know your child best!
Ch. 1- A boat sinks and crates of robots crash ashore.
Ch. 2- Some otters are playing with the robot limbs in the robot "gravesite."
Ch. 14- Roz is chased by bears who want to eat her (she escapes).
Ch. 24- Roz falls off a cliff and accidentally takes out a family of geese- but saves one of the eggs.
Ch. 26- Roz observes an opossum playing dead.
Ch. 35- Brightbill is chased by a mysterious predator in the pond.
Ch. 43 Brightbill runs away (for a very short time).
Ch. 45- Roz and Brightbill visit the robot gravesite.
Ch. 46- The bears return and fight Roz (they all end up friends).
Ch. 54- Roz finds some victims of the winter cold.
Ch. 57- There is a fire (no one is hurt).
Ch. 63- Brightbill tells the story of how the geese were chased by a farmer with a rifle (and one of them is shot).
Ch. 69- Strange robots arrive and try to take Roz away.
Ch. 71-75 As the 3 RECO robots attempt to take Roz back into custody there is quite a lot of fighting between them and the animals.