The Kissing Hand

Over the past few days we have been reading books about a tiny little raccoon named Chester.  We read the first book on the very first day of school and in it, Chester is scared to leave his Mom to go to school so she kisses him in his palm and he holds it to his cheek whenever he feels sad and its like she's giving him a kiss.

 Then we read the next book about Chester called, A Pocket Full of Kisses.  This story is about Chester getting jealous when he gets a new baby brother and his Mom gives his brother a kissing hand too.  So to make Chester feel better, she gave him an extra kissing hand to put in his pocket for whenever he feels like he might need a little more love.  So I cut out hearts and pinned them to the student's pockets so they knew how special they were.  They really loved feeling like they were in the story!

  Then today, we finished the series with the final book where Chester stands up to a Bully and asks him to be his friend even though the Bully had been mean to him.  I really enjoyed watching the students learn about all of Chester's adventures!