"The Salamander Room"

This week as we do K5 in our "cozies" we are visiting "The Salamander Room" by Anne Mazer. We will discuss the relationship between a mother and her child and share some of our childhood fantasies together. For language arts we will do a list of the perfect ingredients needed for the salamander room. We will create our very own salamander room and we will make salamanders out of dough then bake, dry, and paint them as a family. We will practice our "Ss" sounds and practice writing them as well. We will look for and count the many critters that fill the pages of this book. We also have a butterfly maze to conquer.We will take a nature walk to Pope Field and taken in all of God's fabulous creations. We will do leaf and trunk rubbings and discuss texture.We will do a salamander study, classify the salamander, and go through the life cycle of a salamander. We revisited the theme of dry and wet measure while making the dough for our salamanders. It should be an exciting trip through "The Salamander Room."