Classroom 13

The Unlucky Lottery Winners of Classroom 13
by Matthew J. Gilbert and Honest Lee
Illustrated past Joelle Dreidemy

Readers Theater

Book Trailer

Author Interview

Related Activities & Resources:

Informational Resources:

Author Data:

Matthew J. Gilbert author information:
https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=3JA1aLkOkAO7054UdDLbK6X30d1qkydEwZFYAy994FLAq45VnFT/RbUD8ingTiwP

Honest Lee author information:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/correspondent/honest-lee/

Illustrator Information:

Joelle Dreidemy data:
http://littletiger.co.uk/authors/joelle-dreidemy-1

Activities & Resources:

Activities:

Cows:

Caring for a cow:
https://kids.spcaeducation.org.nz/animal-intendance/cows/

Languages:

Use a translating app to have students write Hugo's chapter in English. Yous may besides have students translate into their dwelling house language as appropriate.

Learning french for children video (1:13) :
https://www.youtube.com/scout?v=bOdAzpZIS2U

Probability:

Video educational activity probability (two:06):
https://world wide web.youtube.com/scout?v=ijbuU75wiVo

Separate students evenly into 4 groups – cherry-red, blue, green, and yellow. Manus each student a sideslip of paper with a dot that corresponds to their group color. Accept i of each newspaper left over to put into a hat. Have students effigy out the probability of having their colour chosen.

Discuss the probability of being struck by lightning. Use the NOAA website to assistance: http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/odds.shtml

Science:

Commodity explaining the cloning procedure:
https://kids.britannica.com/kids/commodity/cloning/574603

In the story, Triple J pays scientists to clone him so that he can accept a break. Recall nearly how yous would use clones in your life. Write a wish list of characteristics for scientists to create clones of you lot.

Create a natural cure for Emma's cat allergy. Write a list of ingredients for your special elixir. Create a "sample" of your cure to show your audience.

NASA Kids' Club:
https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html

NASA Solar System sites for kids:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/index.cfm?Filename=nasakids

Social Studies:

Set up a map with countries labeled. Blindfold students and play pivot the tail on the map. Whichever state the student pins the tail on, he or she volition find a dessert they would be willing to endeavour. Students will and so write out a recipe for this dessert.

Create a clemency for which you would want to raise money. Include the proper noun of your clemency, the purpose, and other of import details you desire others to sympathize about your charity.

Global landmarks retention game:
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/quick-play/global-landmarks-memory/

MakerSpace Activities:

Using items found in the makerspace station, recreate Ximena'southward house and yard with her rented globe monuments.

How to make a rocket (one:43):
https://www.youtube.com/lookout?v=HlZ2yyrooS8

Draw out plans for the blueprint of a rocket and brand a list of items used to create information technology. Construct a rocket out of makerspace station items.

Write a play in which you lot time travel to a different fourth dimension menses. Explain where you lot go and why you chose that time. Include multiple characters, the setting, and other plot points.

Using the play you created, make a video of your time travelling play.

Discussion Questions:

Exercise yous agree that Ms. Linda is "unlucky?" Explain. Apply back up from the text.

Even though the clerk at the gas station was not very polite to Ms. Linda, do you think she should thank him for making her purchase something to go alter? What is your reasoning?

Should Ms. Linda share her winnings with the clerk at the gas station? Explicate.

If y'all were Ms. Linda, would you have decided to share your winnings with the students? Explain.

What would you do if yous won the lottery? Why?

How would your life modify if you won the lottery? Explicate.

Exercise you concord with the course' decision to exclude Santiago Santos from the winnings? Why?

Would you consider giving Santiago Santos a portion of your winnings? Explain.

Think of i of the students with whom Ms. Linda shared her winnings. What would you take washed to prevent one or more of the obstacles that student faced after spending the money?

William is characterized every bit beingness very suspicious. Exercise you remember he was right to feel that fashion? Explain and use text evidence.

How much of any of the lottery winnings exercise y'all experience should go to a charity? Explicate your answer.

If yous discovered that y'all were allergic to the item on which you spent all of your lottery winnings, what would you do?

What are your thoughts well-nigh the importance of comic books? Explicate.

If you had a twin (or have a twin), would y'all practice what Mya and Madison do with their money? Explicate.

What did Yuna do with her money? How do you know?

If you were to hire a television family unit to be your family unit, which show bandage would y'all choose? Why?

What do y'all recall of Ms. Linda's spending of her portion of the lottery winnings? Explain.

How do you remember the money might change the relationships the students accept with their friends exterior of Ms. Linda'due south class?

If you knew someone who won the lottery, what would you say to persuade him or her to give you a portion of the winnings?

How does Ms. Linda'due south character change from the first of the book to the end? Use the book to explain your answer.

Book Talk Teasers:

Manus out created Library Lotto tickets to students. Once seated, have a "drawing" and call out the winning numbers. Have one of the tickets be the "large winner" and tell students that the grand prize is $1,000,000,000.00. Ask the student with the winning ticket if he or she would be willing to separate it with anybody in the room.

Read the Readers Theater.

Read Alikes:

Lottery winners:

Donoghue, Emma. The Lotterys plus 1. When Sumac Lottery's estranged gramps comes to live with her and her large family in their sprawling Victorian home, Sumac rapidly realizes he's not the easiest person to get along with. But can she help him observe a home where he belongs? (Novelist).

Grunwell, Jeanne Marie. Mind games. Each of the half dozen members of Mr. Ennis's Mad Scientific discipline Society presents a report of his or her experiences working on a science fair project to investigate ESP, which resulted in their winning the Maryland lottery. (Novelist).

Haworth, Danette. A whole lot of lucky. When twelve-yr-old Hailee'southward family wins the lottery, her life changes in unexpected–and non always good–ways. (Novelist).

Higgins, Chris. My funny family saves the day. A hilarious and heart-warming young series about the chaotic life of the Butterfield family. (Novelist).

Wealth:

Baylor, Byrd. The table where rich people sit. A girl discovers that her impoverished family is rich in things that thing in life, particularly being outdoors and experiencing nature. (Novelist).

Chace, Rebecca. June Sparrow and the million-dollar penny. Forced to exit New York Metropolis to motility in with her aunt in Southward Dakota, once-wealthy orphan June comes across her mother's coin collection and determines to find a rare penny worth one one thousand thousand dollars so she can return to her life of privilege. (Novelist).

Grimes, Nikki. Rich. Gratuitous is excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, just when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who is homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor. (Novelist).

Gutman, Dan. The meg dollar shot. Eleven-year-quondam Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball game Association finals. (Novelist).

Zia, Farhana. Child of spring. Basanta longs for the beautiful ring worn by her young mistress, but when it comes into her possession, she realizes that it's not the wonderful possession she expected. Increasingly enlightened of the struggles of her less privileged friends, Lali and Bala, she finds a way to amend their lives and entertain their community and the cute band takes on new pregnant. (Novelist).

School children:

Pennypacker, Sara. Clementine'southward letter. When her favorite teacher goes away and leaves a strict substitute behind in his place, Clementine is torn between putting in movement her sneaky plan to coax Mr. D'Matz back to school and leaving him be to enjoy his take a chance. (Novelist).

Sachar, Louis. Sideways stories from Wayside Schoolhouse. Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with i classroom on each story. (Novelist).

Reviews:

Gilbert, Matthew J. and Honest Lee.  Illustrated by Joelle Dreidemy. The Unlucky Lottery Winners of Classroom 13.  Little, Brown and Visitor, 2017. School Library Journal (February ane, 2017)
Gr ii-4-Twenty-eight billion dollars seems like a ridiculous amount of money to win and spend. When unusually unlucky teacher Linda LaCrosse wins the lottery and agrees to share the winnings with her students, one would call up her luck was about to change for the amend-except information technology doesn't. Told in brusk chapters, with each 1 devoted to a winner, the story of how the characters spend their wealth gets more outrageous equally the plot progresses. From ownership all the cats in the state to accidentally freeing the money in a gasbag balloon, well-nigh of the kids somehow manage to burn through their greenbacks rather rapidly and rather unluckily. Even the class hamster is in on the action. Elementary schoolers volition find the humor in each situation, though information technology may not give them a strong grasp of how much a billion dollars is really worth. VERDICT This kickoff installment in a new series is a light and funny pick for confident chapter volume readers.-Vivian Ho, Port Washington Public Library, NY © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Reprinted with permission from School Library Journal , 2017.