A sweet little mouse named Chrysanthemum gets made fun of at school because of the length of her name and the fact her name is that of a flower. It is a wonderful story to read during the first week of school when meeting and making new friends.
Here are some the projects we did after reading the book, Chrysanthemum, by Kevin Henkes.
In math, we graphed the number of letters in each student's name.
In writing, we learned the word "WILT" can mean sad and the word "BLOOM" can mean happy. Each student wrote about something that makes him/her "WILT" and then wrote about something that makes him/her "BLOOM."
I can't take credit for these lesson ideas, I found them on TPT, click HERE. They made a beautiful display.
For a culminating activity, our class made homemade pretzels. Each student mixed and kneaded his/her own dough in a Ziploc bag. My daughter Emily is an intern and assisted students with measuring water.
Once the dough was mixed, each student formed it into a letter shape for the first initial in his/her name. We have a convection oven in our classroom that I received through a classroom makeover grant I won a year ago. While the pretzels baked each student took a turn sharing with the class how he/she was given his/her special name.
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