Voyage to the Volcano (Magic School Bus Science Chapter Books, #15) by Judith Bauer Stamper

Voyage to the Volcano (Magic School Bus Science Chapter Books, #15) Reviews

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  Amber

  5th-6th
  
  The students from Ms. Frizzle’s class always go on adventures. These adventures take the reader through volcanoes, the human body and or space. In the Voyage to the Volcano Ms. Frizzle took her students inside a volcano to explore how they work. The class explores the volcano with their school that shrinks to a smaller size. This makes the class the perfect size to enter the volcano to explore. The students learn how the center of the earth affects the lava and how the lava forms. The story is always very interesting but the illustrations always help bring it all to life. The vivid images help the reader understand this science topic.
  What a great way to explore a topic feather. Ms. Frizzle helps students see the importance of volcano. Before giving student the task to complete a project on Volcano a teacher should have student read Ms. Frizzles story.
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  Chance Hansen

  What is happening? It's Magic School Bus there shouldn't be this much risk in the story.
  
  Cover
  I love this cover. Makes total sense. It fits the theme, and setting.
  
  Interior
  Story
  I grew up watching the series I don't think I ever remember them being in serious danger before. I've always seen Ms. Frizzle as a, in control unfazed teacher where all the students couldn't end up in serious danger. Maybe it's because unlike the show they are introducing professionals in their field. I can't believe they actually had THREE dangerous close calls. (When do you remember the entire class relating to Arnold anxiety?) I do have to give credit it's original story standing apart from the tv episode. While Liz didn't appear they do transform quite a few times and even have a couple playful moments.
  It's a decent lists of information and I did find it interesting and does have information I haven't heard of before. It actually felt a little overwhelming at a couple moments.
  
  Illustration
  The full page illustrations are nice and graphs are great references to for visual understanding.
  
  After Thoughts
  It's writing in D.A.'s perspective again. I've got to say wouldn't it have been interesting if each book flipped to a different student?
  
  
  
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  Chris

  When I was a kid I always loved the Magic School Bus series, both books and cartoons. I'm happy that my kids like it equally.
  
  This was a pretty good book, stuffed full of actual facts and information about volcanos that not only the kids found interesting, I actually learned a good deal as well. Combined with a story of the kids exploring around Hawaii and getting into some pretty dangerous situations it was a fun read. It's 8 chapters, but some of them were really short, so I think I read it over 6 or so nights to them. The illustrations are somewhat sparse, though most of them were pretty good. There were more tiny ones with the facts, though. I'll definitely be getting more of these from the library for bed time stories.
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  Megan

  DA is the main character. Her real name is Dorothy Ann, but she goes by DA. They go and meet this volcano scientist that Ms. Frizzle had heard about, and the volcano scientist becomes Dorothy Ann's friend. They save the scientist from the volcano! And they go into a volcano and have fun, and they are in a volcano tunnel, but then the eruption comes and run into the magic school bus. Then they are safe, and then they get their safety suits on from the magic school bus, and then they go in the volcano and have fun.
  
  It was okay, I just didn't love it.
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  Katja Labonté

  3 stars & 3/10 hearts. I was very leery of this book at first, but after reading it, I am of the opinion that “magic school bus” is a deluding title. There is no magic involved at all; the school bus simply changes from a bus to a raft to a submarine, etc. Ms. Frizzle has no magical powers, nor anyone else; it’s just like in Dora the Explorer when her backpack furnishes a raft or things! The story is easy to read and it’s humorous. I enjoyed the information on volcanos & if your students are studying that at the moment, this is a useful book to read :)
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  Vannessa Anderson

  Classmates go on an exciting fieldtrip at Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii where they experience a lava tube and see lava icicles, islands being formed and other interesting facts that’ll make you say, I didn’t know that!
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  Sarah

  Megan had already read this to herself, but wanted me to read it out loud as well. Jared liked me reading it to him, too. (They probably liked it mostly because they like to watch Magic School Bus on Netflix.) The story itself wasn't that exciting, but we did learn some stuff about volcanoes.
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  Mary T

  I read this with my 7yo son who is interested in volcanoes. We both enjoyed this book. I had him read the little textboxes with the student reports. It's an early chapter book in that it is fairly short, but some of the concepts and vocabulary are for older students.
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  Brenna

  Read this book as a read aloud to my son. He liked the story, was less interested in some of the sidebar notes, but I read those anyway since he did like some of them and recalls some of that information (plus I wanted to know what those notes said).
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  Daniel Hernandez

  No es malo, da muy buena información sobre volcanes y es perfecto para un niño
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  Tiffanie changing to Storygraph - TifCochran

  A fun, great easy read out loud to introduce my science loving 6 year old to chapter books!
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  Margaret Heninger

  Great! I wish our libraries had more of these! We enjoy them a lot!
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  Ashley

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  Alison Condliffe

  Not great part of series. Lots of information but storyline not well done.
  2023 pop sugar reading challenge- shortest book TBR list
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  Shankar B.

  When the class escaped the eruption.
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  Laura

  Voyage to the Volcano is book in the Magic School Bus series.
  
  In this science based chapter book, the kids and Ms. Frizzle head out in the Magic School Bus to Hawaii to learn all about volcanoes.
  
  It is formatted like the other books in the series. This one has illustrations and sidebars that look like notebook paper reports written by the kids in the class.
  
  In this adventure the bus turns into a raft, a helicopter and a submarine to take the young readers along on a fun trip. Learning about volcanoes on the land and under the sea becomes an interesting and sometimes scary adventure that will have your kids turning the pages to find out what happens next.
  
  We were fortunate enough to see Kilauea at night while on Hawaii - it is amazing! If you are planning a trip with a grade school age child, this book would be a wonderful way to introduce them to the wonder of volcanoes.
  
  This series is a great way to teach children about the world around them. It encourages looking for answers by asking questions and going to other sources to find out how and why.
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  Dolly

  Our girls adore
  Magic School Bus and we've read every book we can get our hands on. This is a great
  chapter book; it is not too long, and still has lots of pictures. It offers a compreshensive look at volcanoes and the dangers of an active volcano.
  
  Our girls loved the fact that the class goes to Hawaii. They really miss the islands and it gave us a chance to reminisce. We never brought them to Volcanoes National Park, so we'll have to do that someday.
  
  Overall, it's an entertaining and exciting story - the author really brings the science to life. We have read many of the books in this series and we will certainly look for more of them at our local library.
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  Christina

  We visited Kilauea on Hawaii a few months ago, just like Ms. Frizzle and her crew. I'm glad I didn't get the book before we went (if it had been in the library I would have borrowed it) as it definitely emphasized the drama of volcanoes. My volcano-loving 5-year-old was apprehensive enough before our visit to Volcanoes National Park without worrying about his shoes getting stuck in lava, a sudden eruption enveloping our vehicle, etc.
  
  This was the first Magic School Bus book we'd read and I'm not sold on the format. There were a few illustrations that made it clear the illustrator either hadn't seen Kilauea in person or didn't care about accuracy. A non-fiction science of volcanoes book might have been as good or better for learning volcanology facts. For volcano fiction I prefer stories about Pele and Hawaiian mythology.
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  Amber M

  Genre: Nonfiction
  
  Awards: None
  
  Grade Level: 3-4
  
  This book takes the students to Hawaii in a Magic School Bus, where they will wade through lava, tour the Sulfur Pits, visit the Ring of Fire, and experience an underwater volcanic eruption. I would read this book to my students while they were learning about volcano's or during a geography lesson. For a follow up activity, I would have the students correctly construct the three types of volcanoes out of “play dough”. The students would work in small groups to complete this activity.
  
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  Sarah

  A classroom of children take a field trip with their teacher, Ms. Frizzle, in her Magic School Bus. The bus can morph into a jet, a boat, a sub, a helicopter, and more because, well, it's magic. During the adventure the children learn about and report on volcanoes.
  
  It was a fun story that my children enjoyed.
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  Teri

  My girls got a few of these for Christmas and LOVED reading them on their own. I'm really surprised at the things they tell me out of the blue when they are done. "Mom, did you know sometimes a volcano keeps erupting over and over on the ocean floor, and when it gets tall enough it is an ISLAND!" I think a set of all of these chapter books would be nice for our library.
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  Deanna Sutter

  The kids really liked this book. We had lots of good discussion from it. They want to read more about volcanos. They also had to tell their dad at dinner all the things they've learned about volcanos.
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  Callie Stillion

  Ms.Frizzle takes her class to a volcano in Hawaii. The class is trying to learn about volcanoes for a class quiz bowl. Everyone goes into the hot lava and Carlos gets stuck in it. His shoe is now a piece of history!