Chrysanthemum is about a mouse named Chrysanthemum, who loves her name, until.... she goes to school for the very first time. All the kids in her class make fun of her name and Chrysanthemum wilted like a flower. We shared connections to the story, about a time when we have felt sad, or felt like we had wilted, just like Chrysanthemum did.
Chester's Way is story about Chester and Wilson, two mice, who like to do everything the exact same way. They meet another mouse named Lilly, who likes to do things in her own way. We made more connections to the story.
Some examples of connections students made are:
- Chester and Wilson were best friends who made a new friend, just like our class made two new friends.
- Chester and Wilson didn't like Lilly at first, just like I didn't like my new neighbor at first.
- Chester and Wilson became best friends with Lilly, like I became best friends with ____.
- Chester and Wilson avoided Lilly because they thought she was different, that reminds me of a movie where the boy avoids the neighbor because he thinks the neighbor is weird.
In Lilly's Plastic Purple Purse, Lilly gets in trouble for bringing her new purse to school and disturbing the class. Our class made some great connections to this story and learned many new vocabulary words.
Some New Words we learned were:
- amused
- considerate
- longed
- jaunty
- furious
- disturb
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