We have finally finished Flora and Ulysses. Last Thursday we read the poem that Ulysses wrote to Flora. If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I would read aloud a book about a flying squirrel that wrote poetry, I would not have believed you. I would have believed you even less if you told me that the book was the Newbery winner.
To reflect on the book I gave the class a choice board on Friday. A choice board just gives the students different options of how they want to share their thinking about the book. Some of the choices on the board include writing an I Am Who I Am poem or creating a Venn Diagram to compare this book to other Kate DiCamillo books or my favorite create a Doodle for Google for Flora and Ulysses.
I got to see the first drafts of some of these projects today and was blown away. I cannot wait to scan some of the Doodle for Googles and put them up on the blog. If you are not familiar with the Doodle for Google, it is the picture that seems to change daily for the Google home page. For example if you go to Google today you will see a Doodle Google that celebrates Saint Patrick's Day.
The class created Doodles with all types of nods to the book. One of my favorite ideas was turning the two O's in Google into William Spiver's glasses. We also had the O's turned into doughnuts and sunny-side up eggs and even a squirrel trapped in a sack with a crumpled up poem. The creativity was amazing. The Doodle's also showed just how much the students understood the book.
I cannot wait to see more of these projects as the students finish up their projects this week. I hope you are all having a great start to your week and enjoying your Saint Patrick's Day.
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