Madeline and the Bad Hat

For the past several days we've been reading the story of Madeline and her relationship with Pepito in Bemelmans classic tales of this Parisian little girl. We explored some interesting vocabulary words in the text such as ambassador, menagerie, molest, and guillotine (they're all in the text...I promise!) So this morning we arrived in downtown Winston Salem at First Presbyterian to see the performance of the story. At first there was a lot of singing and I heard Max murmur, "This is nothing like the book." Then within a short time the story became familiar except for "all that singing and dancing." After we got back to school we wrote about our favorite parts of the play. Later this afternoon we head to Mr. Stori's third grade room to hold our weekly Friday sing. You'll find the Song and Poetry Journal in the bags this afternoon so have a great weekend of singing!