Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Title: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Author: Betty MacDonald

Image from www.amazon.com

Activities:

As we waited for everyone to arrive, the girls drew a picture of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and/or a picture of her house. I provided details from the book to guide them. (List of descriptions included below.)

We ate snacks we read about in the book: peanut butter sandwiches, peppermint sticks, and pumpkin pie.

We talked about the book and our favorite cure. I asked the girls, "Is there a character that's most similar to you and a cure you would need?"

The girls chose a character and filled out a Character Trading Card. I had printed out a copy of the list of characters and their problems to help them remember the characters. (I got the table from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Piggle-Wiggle.)

We scrolled through GoodReads to look at the other titles in the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series.

Descriptions of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and her house:

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

(Details from the book, p. 10)

·      Brown sparkly eyes

·      Brown hair which she keeps very long, almost to her knees. She sometimes wears it on top of her head in a knot.

·      Goldy brown skin

·      Her clothes are all brown. She wears felt hats.

·      She wears very high heels all the time.

·      Pet dog Wag, pet cat Lightfoot

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s house

(Details from the book, p. 11)

·      House is upside down

·      Little brown house

·      Sits in a tangly garden

·      Inside, the bathroom, kitchen, and staircase are right side up

·      Living room has a large chandelier on the floor (children pretend it’s a campfire)

·      Backyard filled with big holes from kids digging for buried treasure

·      Front yard full of flowers