We read Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett. It's the story of a little girl, Annabelle, who lives in a black and white town. One day, she finds a box and inside is some yarn. She knits herself a sweater and finds that after she's done, she still has extra yarn. So she knits her dog a sweater and again, she has extra yarn. She continues to knit things for everything, even things that don't ordinarily wear clothes - houses, cars, animals, everything! Her dream was to have a colorful town and she made it happen!
We were inspired by the book, so everyone in our class thought of a hope or a dream for their school year. Ideas ranged from building reading stamina to playing with old friends to being able to count to 1,000.
Then, each child posed as if they had just achieved their dream. I snapped their picture and VOILA! We have a display! Well, after they learned how to use scissors, glue, and yarn to make the coolest display...
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| Can't see it? Well then, please stop by for a visit so you can take a closer look! We are awfully proud of it. |
After all of that, we had to make some class rules so that way we could reach our hopes and dreams. If we wanted to reach them - we couldn't have kids running around and screaming and being wild all day!
We came up with about 30 different rules, which seemed like way too much to remember, so instead, we put them into three categories: self, others, and materials. Then we thought of how to phrase each rule and voted on our top choice. Here's what we came up with...
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We signed them to show that we would follow them all.
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Finally, we practiced and discussed them A LOT this week and worked with colored pencils so we could illustrate a book about them.
Our Class Rules Book
ASK your child about our class rules and why they are so important! :)
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