The Night at the Museum

1) This book is about Larry, the new night guard at the museum and he is called to watch over the dinosaur exhibit, but quickly falls asleep. He wakes up, and to his surprise the dinosaur bones are missing. Larry goes to get one of the other guards and sees all of the animals out of the exhibit, came to life and is wondering what in the world is going on. The guard tells him they let the animals strecth their legs and get something to eat at night, and to check in the food room that the dinosaurs may be down there. Larry checks down in the food room, still can’t find them and he keeps finding bones, and keeps following them and looking everywhere for the dinosaurs. He finally finds them where they orginally were, and realizes the guards were just playing a trick on him. The museum is about to open for the next day and all of the animals and people are back in their exhibit. Larry’s boss asked him how he liked the night shift, he said he liked it but Larry was tired. The boss asked then asked him to take the dayshift as well, so therefore if you ever go into a musuem and see a guard sleeping, he may of had a crazy night the night before.
2) Age Level: 4-7 years old, Grade Level: Preschool-2nd grade
3) Appropriate classroom use of this book could be used during History to combine a number of Historical events in one lesson based off of the book
4) Individual students who might benefit from reading this book would be students who have seen the movie and loved it, or students that enjoy history
5) Small group use of the book could be to assign each group a person or animal mentioned in the book that esacped and have them research more information on that topic and share with the class.
6) Whole class use of this book could be to read the book, and watch the movie as well. This movie does have many historical references in it, which would be great for the students to watch and learn about, while also having fun.
7) Related Books: American Museum of Natural History, Another Night at the Museum
8) As far as multimedia connections, there is a movie called Night at the Museum that is based off of this book which would be good to play in the classroom, and also a Kindle version available of the book.