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It's Carnival Night, and Lucille has already won a box of fluffy cupcakes with sprinkles on them. But when Junie B. wins the Cake Walk, she chooses the bestest cake of all-the one wrapped in sparkly aluminum foil. How was she to know it was a lethal weapon?
In this guide, a language arts lesson is used to teach the third-person narrative and build upon students' writing skills. The hands-on math lesson in the second classroom activity focuses on fractions.
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"For some reason, our family always had bad luck at school carnivals. The year my son David won the Cake Walk, there was only one cake left and it tasted like cardboard. The next year, someone stole my son Steve's new shoes while he was leaping around inside the Moon Walk Tent.
Little did I know that all of these disasters would come in handy when Junie B. Jones went to her own school carnival. In fact, with a little imagination, I found I could make Junie B.'s carnival experience even worse than our own!
Or at least I tried.
Leave it to Junie B. Jones to find the bright side of a fruitcake!"
© 1995 by Barbara Park.
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Pre-Reading Activities
Junie B. attends Carnival Night in Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake. Brainstorm with your class about carnivals. What are their favorite rides and games? What types of foods do they eat at carnivals? Have your students draw pictures of themselves at a carnival.
 Junie
B.'s Fruity Fractions
After Junie B. fixes herself a less than satisfying breakfast,
Grandpa Miller saves the day by slicing some peaches, bananas,
and strawberries into a bowl. Divide your class into groups,
supplying each with Junie's favorite fruits. Working together
with safety knives, have your students divide their fruits into
halves, fourths and eighths. Using their fractional fruit pieces,
they can engage in addition and subtraction activities 1/4 +
3/4 = 1; as well as exercises in equivalent fractions 1/2 =
2/4 = 4/8. Finally, ask students to identify their own favorite
fruit and draw pictures of it to illustrate whole, halves, quarters,
and eighths illustrations.
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Activities
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