We also got something that I have been working on fixing up and getting things to make it cuter. Guess what it is? It is a Scamp fiberglass trailer, otherwise known as an egg camper. Hmmm...that gives me an idea, I can show my students a picture of it and ask them to infer what they think it might be nicknamed! You can see why when you see its picture. I can give clues if they don't get it at first :-)
Cute, huh? I am going with the red/turquoise theme since it is vintage. Yeah, now 1982 is vintage. Hmmmm, what does that make me?!?! I won't go there. But it is cute and now I can go on a learning journey without sleeping on the ground!
I HAVE been thinking about my students' learning though and when I bought my retro turquoise clock to go with my color theme in my trailer, I also bought my new favorite book for school, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
This is an amazing book and it gives me new teaching ideas each time I read it. It is a wonderful children's book about a man who is writing his life story. As he is writing, a tornado takes the words away from his book. He is gifted with a book from a woman and his life changes direction. I plan to use it to introduce caring for and the importance of books, to introduce writing, and also how to infer. The original film short has no words so it will be perfect to have them infer what is happening from the pictures in combination with their own background knowledge , as well as compare and contrast the book and the film. It has great vocabulary too! There is also an app which I didn't purchase...yet. Check out the author's website for more info! The first thing I am going to do when I get back to my classroom (right after taking our maiden voyage in our Scamp this weekend) is to create a bulletin board featuring books that take us flying. It will be finished with the addition of pictures/descriptions of the favorite books of my new class and their pictures. Fun!Now I am off to go Scamping!
