box drawingsThis month I did a unit with the kindergartners on using our imaginations. This tied in to what they were doing in class as well, so the timing was perfect.

I started out by reading them Antoinette Portis’s Not a Box and Not a Stick. Fabulous books, I was observed by my principal doing this lesson and she loved them. Then I gave each student a paper with a box on it, and we used our imaginations to make the box into whatever we wanted. They took those home, and we were off to a great start.

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