Chrysanthemum

On Thursday 9/10/11 I read them the book Chrysanthemum. Its a story about a little girl who loves her name so much its absolutely perfect. On her first day of school all the other kids start making fun of her name and she no longer loves her name. During music her music teacher makes her feel special by telling all the students that her name is long to like Chrysanthemums name. In the end she ends up loving her name and all the other students want long names as well. After I read the story I pulled out a big beautiful heart. Then I talked about what would happen if someone made fun of me. I took the heart all crunched it up into a ball. As a class we talked about how some peoples feelings might be hurt when you say rude things to them. We talked about how Chrysanthemums heart wrinkled up when the kids were making fun of her. We then talked about how we could fix the wrinkled heart. Some said tape it others said we could smooth it out. We also talked about how when we wrinkle someone else's heart we should try to fix it. After out discussion we all wrote our name on bandaids and tried to fix the wrinkled heart.