Last week I used the big book, From Head to Toe, by Eric Carle. I read the book to the students, we read it together and discussed different aspects of the book each day. We discussed the pattern of the writing in the book, made a chart of the animals and the body part each moved, and discovered why the author named the book, From Head to Toe. As a culmination to the book, we used the pattern to create our own version of the book. The students each selected a pre-cut animal shape. The used water colors to paint their animal. They decided what body part the animal would move and how they would move that part. Then they took all of this and created their own page for our class book. I took pictures of each student acting like their animal and added that to each page.
I took pictures of their pages, recorded the class reading the book, and add music to create a video of our book. The students were so excited to see the end result. The print book is now in our class library where I am sure it will be read many times this year.
If you would like to see the video, you can click here.
As I am putting the finishing touches on my classroom and the first week lesson plans I have to say that 3M is just the best company in the world.... Or at least in my classroom. My classroom has 3 concrete block walls and a plaster wall. Nothing ever stays on the block walls. The air conditioning is turned off at night and on the weekends and prevents items from staying on the wall. Well, not anymore! This miracle product stays on the walls until I decide to remove it. Best of all there is no damage to the walls. I have the hooks, the poster hangers and the picture hangers. It is so much better than the sticky tack or 
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