Yesterday, I met with a community member who is part of a knitting ministry. She has agreed to come into out classroom on Monday afternoon, along with Madeline's mom, to teach the students to knit. I practiced finger knitting last night and made a long, thin scarf in less than an hour. I wore it to school today to see what the kids thought of the whole idea. They were excited about learning to knit. I'm hoping that they will love it so much that it will become a free time activity.

After learning about nouns this morning, students scattered around the room to find "things." They brought the items back to the rug and used a complete sentence to tell what they found. Next. students went to different "places" around the room and used complete sentences to tell where they were ("at the green table").

We read two more Eric Carle books today, The Lonely Firefly and 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo. We compared and contrasted the characters and setting. We looked carefully at the illustrations and watched a short video about Eric Carle's creations process, and began a similar process. We painted tissue paper in solid colors. Tomorrow we will add another color, and then we will cut and paste the painted tissue papers to create our own characters. I can't wait to see the finished product! The students had the idea to each create an animal, then combine the pages to make their own book. I love their idea!