Brainstorming

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__Silver Birch Express__

 * __Animal Aha! Thrilling Discoveries in Wildlife Science__**

- write letters to "Teddy" and send the letters to Ottawa (could be pre-arranged and done on computers) - Skype in someone from the museum showing the Teddy
 * __A Bear in War__**

- play a game where communication is difficult (how Aram must have felt in a new country)
 * __Call Me Aram__**

- First, everyone writes a letter (with some personal information i.e. my eyes are blue). Then the letters are put into the middle of the table. Next, you read the letters aloud and guess who wrote them
 * __Dear Toni__**

- make some of the recipes from the book
 * __The Delta is My Home__**

- have some of those "fly glasses" for the kids to try while at this booth (looking through "crystals") - play hockey
 * __Focus on Flies__**
 * __Going Places__**

- eat sardines and wine gums
 * __Meeting Miss 405__**

- carve canoes out of cedar - float canoes
 * __Shin-chi's Canoe__**

- steal fake diamonds from the other team
 * __Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit__**

**__Silver Birch Fiction__**

 * __Death in the Air__**


 * __Grim Hill: The Secret Deepens__**

- could develope a "survival" board game using some of the "rules for survival" given throughout the book
 * __Jolted, Newton Starker's Rules for Survival__**


 * __Libertad__**


 * __The Mealworm Diaries__**

- someone from a local animal shelter / vet office could come and talk about cats. Maybe they would have some kittens that could come too!
 * __The Nine Lives of Travis Keating__**

- build a tube communicator and have a conversation (how the boys communicate between houses in the book) - blast the dog with the water gun
 * __Odds Get Even__**

__**When the Sergeant Came Marching Home**__


 * __White Cave Escape__**

- throw the "eyeball" at the switch through cage bars - some kid of sorting activity where you sort the characters (departing creatures of Zorgamazoo - dragons, pizies, phoenix, etc. etc.)
 * __Zorgamazoo__**


 * __Silver Birch Non-Fiction__**

Alien Invaders: Species that Threaten Our World

At the Edge: Daring Acts in Desperate Times

Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees

Courage and Compassion: Ten Canadians Who Made a Difference

Dieppe: Canada's Darkest Day of WWII

The Insecto-Files: Amazing Insect Science and Facts You'll Never Believe

Inside Hockey! The Legends Facts & Feats that Made the Game

Pharaohs & Foot Soldiers: One Hundred Ancient Egyptian Jobs You Might Have Desired or Dreaded

Robert Munsch: Portrait of an Extraordinary Canadian - team game - guess which one of his books the quote is from or match up game with pics. of the book covers

You Are Weird: Your Body's Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions