How To Eat Fried Worms

Have you ever tried eating worms? As we read Thomas Rockwell's How To Eat Fried Worms about four boys who dare each other to eat 15 worms, I decided to put the kids up to a challenge of my own. Who will be brave enough to try just one tiny worm?

Strangely enough, we had a lot of volunteers!
Even more strangely, both of our volunteers were girls... both were extremely brave and ate the worms without flinching!
As you can tell, I wasn't one of the girls who agreed to eat a worm!
Both girls lived to tell about their hair-raising experience with our novel study!
Now did you think I would actually let my precious 3rd graders eat worms?! Gotcha! These "worms" were actually tootsie rolls dipped in dark brown sugar. When the girls spilled the secret that the worms were quite tasty, everyone decided it was safe to try one. Yummy!



Now that we've all eaten worms, we can identify with the main characters of the story and we're even more interested in what happens in the plot. How To Eat Worms Cookbook coming soon!