Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree~

Today we read Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree after we caught up 4 days of Truth in the Tinsel~

While and after we read, we did lots of talking and retelling of the story... especially the sequence of animals.

I had a little Christmas mouse for us to make.

EK and SJ took the patterns, traced, and made their mouse all on their own.

For the boys, I traced and they cut on the lines.

For Evie, I cut and she glued. :)

When mice were done, we printed a little book of the animals and let them order the pages while I read the book all over again.

We stapled them to the back of their mouse.

 Wanted to mention when we are shopping @ Michaels, I pick up little books of stickers for the kids to use when writing stories in their journals~

After lunch we kept Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree going as I had EK and SJ choose their favorite animal from the story to research~

We read facts online and watched a couple of YouTube videos about their animal.

EK~ Fox

SJ~ Bears

Once they had some information they drew the animal in their journal and wrote some facts.

Super work everyone!!!