Monday, April 13, 2009

Roald Dahl Author Study

"...Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

These words are carved into a stone, placed on the ground in the garden that surrounded Roald Dahl's writing hut. Last week we began our amazing, fantastic, scrumdiddliumptious author study on Roald Dahl. Dahl is famous for the incredible books he wrote. We are currently working in book clubs to study several of his books: James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great, Glass Elevator, Danny the Champion of the World, The BFG, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and George's Marvelous Medicine. Dahl's books are full of magic and wonder (his books are one of Miss Lipsky's favorite things to teach all year!) We have many creative projects coming up using Dahl's books including our big, end-of-the-year, out of this world play! To get a better understanding of who Roald Dahl was please visit his website: http://www.roalddahl.com/ You won't be disappointed!

23 comments:

Leeza said...

Roald Dahl is an amazing author. I read his book "Boy" and I loved it. He had an amazing child hood.
Leeza

Anonymous said...

Wow Miss.Lipsky you couldn't have picked a different site so great.I love that site it is so much fun and I enjoy it more than you think so whoever reads this start reading that site becuase it rocks!!!

Love,
Alyssa ;)

Anonymous said...

I really looooooooooooooooved the web site.


-Spencer

Anonymous said...

I really liked it

Marc The Shark said...

Miss.Lipsky
Rould Dahl's site is
boring.
Marc the shark

Anonymous said...

Roald Dahl websit is so cool because thier are moving pics and you can read about his life and when it louds RD shows up from,enrique

braves said...

i like his web site it is so awsome rock on jeremy

Allison said...

i love the blog its soooooo colorful and really alsome to vist at and learn about all the books its amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



allison

Anonymous said...

Wassup Lipsky Team! It's Jhadae!I was just gonna tell you about the Roald Dahl website. It's so cool! it has lots of interesting facts about Roald and his life it also has moving animated pictures! It so cool I can't even explain it! You go check it out your self!

Love Ya! Jhadae

Tristan said...

The site is asown. It tells about him so much.I love the pictures of him,explecy when it shows and tells about his childhood and how it was hard.

Jordanne said...

That was an awsome a awsome website of his. but when u click on want to meet him. u have to awnser questions about him and then u have to say a personal statement about yourself and i thought that was a little to personal.!!!!!!!! so i put fake stuff about me.... But over all that wa an awsome website to visit.
sincerly,
Mini Sterling

devora said...

roald dahls website was awesome. ilove his book matilda although i havent fineshed reading it.the movie was great i saw it twice devora,

SaVaNnAh said...

I just went his site and it is soooooooo awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went 2 Rhold dahl on the site and played this little trivia game and asked stuff about me..... but i didn't use any of my personal info though. 2 me it was soooooooo fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Over all the site was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lOVE:
SaVaNnAh

jheramon said...

Ilike the things we do in this class like readig . the book matida is a very good book i will keep reading his books until i read every one of them.

Hayley & Bailey said...

Hey, this is Hayley and Bailey.we wanted to tell you what we thought about your blog and Roald Dahl.we think that was awesome what you wrote about Roald Dahl.why? i cant belive your asking us why roald dahl is awesome, he writes AWESOME books personally our favirote book is, charlie and the chocolate factory. i mean come on who dosent like chocolate. lol.

tamia said...

FROM:TAMIA This is a great idea puting roald dahl on the blog for every body to see what we had done

Zach attack said...

Wow ms. Lipsky its amazing how many links you can explore to learn about Roald Dahl. Z.M

$$BRETT$$ said...

I LOVED THE SITES THAY ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO COOOOL GOOD JOB FROM BRETT

Anonymous said...

roald dahl has some amazing books thati havent read the BFG im reading is a great book there is a ton of made up words like wizzpoppers,swishfiggler,whiffling,and,pogswizzler

by,Jordan

Anonymous said...

hi miss lipsky um i whent to roald site it was cool and i think that she desibebs what her website is and it is interesting so got go bye love ally h

Anonymous said...

hey girls and guys gather around and lisin to me this site miss.lipsky picked sweet so read it !

yours truly,

alyssa
(or what tatiana calls me freckles)

emily said...

Hey Miss.L whats up?? i can not wait till we do your roald dohl play!!!!!!!
love,

emily

Tati :-D said...

I love Roald Dahl myself. He is an amazing author, I love all his books!!! And also, I meant to ask you something in 2nd period, but I seem to keep forgetting. Does Dahl have a brother named Bobby? I was watching a movie, and the credits mentioned that he co-starred in it. WOW!!!
Your fave student,
TODD