Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Module 2
As Henry and his sister are having breakfast, his grandfather tells them the story about a little town named Chewandswallow. In this little town food falls from the sky. Food falls three times a day, for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The forecast is always food. No rain or snow but just food. This is a delightful little book to read. There are not any grocery stores, but who needs them when you can go out each day and collect your food. The only problem with receiving three meals a day is you don’t have a choice of what you are going to have to eat. The menu sometimes consisted of mash potatoes, soup, juice and hamburgers. One day the weather changed and something went terribly wrong. The food begins to come in larger sizes and more of it came down. The town became dangerous and unlivable. The people of the town packed up and moved away to a place that did not have food on the forecast. They had to adjust to a new life with grocery stores and rain.

My impression
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was a very good book to read. It was very entertaining. The important to me about this story is the children loved the story. The story made the students really think about would they like their food to fall from the sky. I loved it and recommended the book to several friends for their children and grandchildren to individual reading or group story time.
How can you use this as a lesson in the classroom?
Create a chart with the Advantages and Disadvantages of having food fall from the sky.
Have the class suggest and list the Advantages and Disadvantages of having food fall. See which one has the most suggestions. Discuss suggestions.