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ACTIVITIES:
1. Write a poem about perfect people. Try to use words that begin with "p" to make your poem sound silly. Here are a few ideas: perfectly, perfect, people, possess, positive, plus.
2. Fold a piece of paper in half and create a book jacket that will holler 'Read Me!' Your book can be about ways that people might improve themselves, or it can be about something different. Write the title of the book and the author's name on the cover. Draw a portrait of the author on the back cover.
3. The author, Stephen Manes, invented funny names for food. Try to invent some funny food names of your own. Make a list of 5 food names and choose the one that is the funniest. Then create a package label for it. Glue your label onto an empty container and bring it to school to show your classmates.
4. Make a poster showing all the things someone would no longer need if he or she were perfect. Write a few words explaining why each thing could be thrown away.
5. Many important inventions and discoveries came about as a result of people not being perfect. Find out about a famous invention or scientific discovery that came about by accident. Write a little report about it. (For instance, the chocolate chip cookie happened when a woman didn't follow a chocolate cookie recipe correctly and broke the chocolate into little pieces instead of melting it.)
6. Suppose you could meet Dr. Silverfish. Make a list of 5 questions you would like to ask him. Then write what you think the answers would be and have someone perform an interview of this for the class.
