Alvin, The Very Sad Dragon

             

Alvin the Dragon

As a final wrap-up activity for our Fair Tale Unit, we wrote a class book titled "The Very Sad Dragon."  We started by reviewing the elements of a fiction story.  We then generated a list of ideas.  I wish I had remembered to take a photo of our list.  I told the kids that I wanted to use photos to illustrate the book so that limited us a little.  We agreed right away that the characters would be our class and a dragon - the kids love our dress-up dragon (and I'm good at putting ideas in their heads :). We came up with lots of possible dragon names and then voted on our favorite....and Alvin the Dragon was born. 

The cover of our book.

Fairy Tales - Our Castle Easter Basket

We are finishing up our Fairy Tale Unit this week. I wanted to make Easter Baskets that were Fairy Tale related.  I found a castle Easter basket on pinterest and modified it.  

Our Fairy Tale Castle

I think the kids' favorite part of our Fairy Tale unit is our castle.

 I made the castle using 3 refrigerator boxes and 5 washer/dryer boxes.  I bought the plans and special rivets from  Mr. McGroovy's website.  I worked on it for about 10 hours (Mr. McGroovy says it should take 2).  I got much better as I went along and if I do it again, I'll get help (I bet I'll be able to finish the whole thing in 2-3 hours next year).