We played a little game when reading Steven Kellogg's books that you could do at home.  Part way through the story we would stop and predict what might happen next.  We would tell the person beside us, then continue reading to see if we were right.  For The Rattlebang Picnic, we decided to write down what we thought might happen next.

 
DSCN0116.JPG (928663 bytes) Jack thought that people don't picnic in the mountains because a big fellow lived in the mountain.
Chris thought that people don't picnic on the mountain because the cars would fall off the cliff. DSCN0117.JPG (965111 bytes)
DSCN0118.JPG (927540 bytes) Austin thought that people don't picnic there because zombies live in the mountains.
Eriq thought people don't picnic there because the water flows up and sends the people flying. DSCN0119.JPG (940808 bytes)