Happy New Year! We are excited to discover the new inspirations, knowledge, and opportunities 2017 will bring us. So, we want to begin the new year in our classrooms becoming mindful and focused on our goals and desires. Last month we found the book titled The Wish Tree by Kyo Maclear. It is about a boy named Charles who sets out, with his sled named Boggan, to find a wish tree. He encounters many animals working in the forest and he decides to help them. Soon Charles is too tired to go on, and he falls asleep in the snow. When he wakes up he sees his wish tree, and he writes his wish on a card and hangs it on the tree. As the story ends, the reader recognizes that Charles' wish did come true, but they must infer what it was. How clever of the author.
To follow this book up with our own wishes for the new year, we are going to make a wish tree and hang our wishes on it. This wish tree is very simple and easy to make. Here is a second link to a tree that looks more like the tree in the book, but it does not seem as simple to make.
We are looking forward to reading this meaningful story to our students and helping them to reflect on the author's message. Focusing on their goals and wishes for the new year will hopefully bring them many successes in 2017.
Kim and Anne
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