Make up your own recipe for removing freckles. Bring ahead option: tissue paper, wrapping paper, office paper, thread, yarn, or real fabric. Glue the paper and draw in the empty spaces with marker or crayons. Tear up more paper for face and add small pieces to be the freckles. Take various types of paper and tear up into rough shapes for eyes, nose, and mouth. Set aside a large piece of construction paper and sketch the outline of your face on it. What kind of teacher is Miss Kelly? Does she remind you of one of your teachers? Who?ĭraw a picture of yourself with freckles or make a collage of your face. How does Andrew finally get freckles? Why are his freckles unusual? What happens after Andrew drinks the freckle juice? What would you have done? How do Andrew and Sharon exchange the money and the recipe? Do you pass notes in class? What do you do? Why does he trust her? Would you trust her? What kind of person is Sharon? Do you know someone like her?

Students can list their own physical characteristics.ĭo you ever wish you could look like someone else? Who?ĭiscussion topics for during/after reading: Did anyone borrow the book from the library and finish reading it? Explain that this is the same author.ĭo you have freckles? If you have freckles, do you like them? If you don?t have freckles, would you like to? Why or why not? Have you ever seen someone with freckles.Ĭover the different physical characteristics that people have such as tall, thin, short, not thin, straight hair, curly hair, different hair colors, different eye colors, different skin colors, etc.

How Andrew finally manages to achieve a temporary set of freckles - and then isn't sure he really wants them - makes a warm and hilarious story.Īsk the students if any of them read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing in July. He carefully begins to mix a strange combination of ingredients - and immediately runs into some unforeseen problems. His reading group giggled.Grade Level: 4th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.)Īndrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents. Now will you please pick up your chair and join your reading group? We’re all waiting for you.’Īndrew stood up in a hurry. But when he got to eighty-six Miss Kelly called, ‘Andrew. And then he’d never be late for school.Īndrew had plenty of time to look at Nicky’s freckles. If he had freckles like Nicky, his mother would never know if his neck was dirty. They covered his face, his ears and the back of his neck.

Freckle juice story