Stellaluna

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon has always been a favorite story to read around Halloween. Yesterday we read Stellaluna and, after reading, we looked at the story structure. We asked ourselves questions about the story. What happened at the beginning of the story? What happened in the middle of the story? What happened at the end of the story? What things changed from the beginning of the story to the end of the story?

After having a classroom discussion about what things changed as the story went along, it was time to write. Each student wrote a description about events that occurred in the beginning, middle, and end of the story on separate index cards. Once students wrote out their story sequence, they then glued their index cards onto a black bat. After gluing, students used a white crayon to add more detail to their bats. Students became very creative with the facial features of their bats!

 Today, these black story sequence bats are flying around our classroom and lend a spooky flair to our room.