Treasure Boxes

Starting today we will be making a treasure box every week to go with the story we read on Monday mornings.  Our goal is to increase our vocabulary.  Today I read the book The Emperor's Egg by Martin Jenkins.  We read for comprehension and discussed the story as we went. Tomorrow morning I will read it a second time and we will stop to write down vocabulary words or phrases on note cards.  We will use these note cards to practice our new vocabulary.  Students may bring in an item or draw something that goes with our story and we will put it in our treasure box.  We can also use these items to practice retelling the story.  The items students bring in could be here for a few months as we grow our collection of treasure boxes and vocabulary each week.  Please be sure they are items that are not valuable.