Students can then discuss their own favorite foods and learn where their food choices are located on the nutrition pyramid. Mythology and Me Max and Ruby in Pandora's Box and Max and Ruby's Midas offer students an entertaining and accessible introduction to the study of Greek mythology. Provide students with an overview of the Greek gods and goddesses and their stories. Ask students to write a report about a specific character in Greek mythology. Student presentations of their completed reports will expose the entire class to a variety of individuals in mythology.
Students can even dress like their mythological character on the day of their presentation.
After reading Max's Chocolate Chicken , students can decorate their own eggs. They can dye hard-boiled eggs, or adorn plastic eggs with paint, stickers, bits of paper and ribbon, and glitter glue. Students can then participate in an egg hunt either in their classroom or outdoors. Her mother was a member of Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, and her father was a playwright and actor. Most of her childhood was spent outdoors on the New Jersey shore at a time when New Jersey was still small farms and miles of woods.