The Pumpkin Runner
The Pumpkin Runner by Marsha Diane Arnold
An Australian sheep rancher who eats pumpkins for energy enters a race from Melbourne to Sydney, despite people laughing at his eccentricities.
Why are we featuring this book?
The Pumpkin Runner is a book featured in Five in a Row, a literature-based unit study curriculum. Many families use FIAR for all but the Grammar / Reading and Math, and others use it in conjunction with other resources. Below you will find information about the author and illustrator, story summaries, and links to lesson plans and websites that are great go-alongs for The Pumpkin Runner. Please note that these resources are meant to complement, not replace, the Five in a Row units. The Five in a Row volumes are inexpensive and well worth the investment. Digital downloads of the FIAR volumes and supplementary resources like Fold & Learn™ (paper manipulatives similar to lapbooks) are available to enhance your units.
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Author page
Other books by Marsha Diane Arnold
Illustrator Page
Other books by Brad Sneed
Go-Alongs:
Online Units and Resources for The Pumpkin Runner
Paul Taylor Didjeridoo
Australian storyteller, didjeridoo player and traveller. He comes to the U.S. from Adelaide, South Australia, on the invitation of Bobby Bridger and the Adelaide-Austin, TX, sister city program. Bridger is a descendent of the legendary western pioneer, Jim Bridger. In 1986, Paul acted as guide for Bobby Bridger on an extensive tour of South Australia. Bridger performed his acclaimed one-man show “Ballad of the West," on a tour of the outback and to the Pitjantatjara Aboriginal community in the red heart of the country. (Y, M, O, T)
Marsha Diane Arnold:Fun for Kids
coloring sheet, 'fact or fiction', tricky trivia, cryptograms, questions and answers (Y)
Go-alongs about
Australia Lesson Plans Interactive - Lesson plans for teachers; Interactive activities for kids; Resources for everyone (Y, M, O, T)
Australia Themed Coloring Pages - Maps, famous sites, animals and the Australian flag. (Y, M, O, T)
Australia Themes - From A to Z teacher Stuff. (Y)
Australia's Geography - An excellent resource from Enchanted Learning (Y)
Australia: Lessons About the 'Land Down Under'! - From Education World,com Offers lessons about the continent of Australia. (Y, M)
Australia: Lessons About the 'Land Down Under'! - G'day mate! Your students can learn about the "land down under" as Education World offers lessons about the continent of Australia. Included: Activities to involve students in using maps, creating an ABC picture book of Australian animals, preparing Australian foods, and much more! (Y)
Australia: The Land Down Under - Webquest created by a 6th grade class. Information on Australia includes a timeline, Aborigines, government, animals, geography, weather, culture, and more. (Y, M, O)
Australian Animals - From the Australian Explorer.com. Photographs of Australian animals. (Y, M, O, T)
Australian Animals A to Z - Grade: K-2, 3-5 (Y)
Didjeridoo - From the Aboriginal Australia Art & Culture Centre in Alice Springs. (Y, M, O, T)
Government...Please explain! - Lesson on Australian government (Y, M)
Kids Konnect.com - Australia - Webpages created by a retired teacher to help kid safely learn on the internet about Australia. (Y, M, O, T)
Kids' literature featuring Australia - Top literature picks for children with themes related to Australia (y m)
Go-alongs about Sheep
Sheep crafts - Crafts for kids from Danielle's Place (Y)
Go-alongs about Balloons
Hot Air Balloon - Hot air ballooning facts (Y, M, O, T)
Anatomy of a Hot-Air Balloon - From the Plano Balloon Festival: About Balloons. (Y, M, O, T)
BALLOON CRAFT - Template to make a hot air balloon craft. (Y )
Balloons - Many links to balloon web sites. (Y)
Exploratorium Learning Studio - Hot Air Balloons (Y, M, O, T)
History of Hot-Air Ballooning - It is now more than two hundred years since the first balloon took to the skies. The Montgolfier brothers, two paper makers from the southern French town of Annonay, were intrigued by the way smoke rises above a fire. They decided to capture its lifting powers with small paper and cotton balloons and, while they were mistaken in their faith in the smoke itself (or 'Phlogiston' as it was referred to at the time), they succeeded in creating the world's first hot-air balloon. (Y, M, O, T)
Hot Air Balloon - How to make a hot air balloon. (Y)
How Hot Air Balloons Work - From How Stuff Works. (Y, M, O, T)
