If you checked your VPK folder today, I'm sure you noticed that one of the papers was very crumpled! This morning we read Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. It is the story of a little girl who loves her name until she goes to school and gets made fun of. It's a wonderful story to lead into a discussion of helpful vs. hurtful words. After we read the story and talked about it, the children colored a picture of Chrysanthemum. Then we asked them to crumple the paper up each time someone hurt Chrysanthemum's feelings. When Chrysanthemum went home and her parents made her feel better, we smoothed our papers out again.
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