In April, I shared the book Phileas’s Fortune by Agnés de Lestrade and Valeria Docampo and translated from the French by Julia Frank-McNeil with our RBE 1st graders.
This book is a special book because it asks reader’s to imagine a world where people cannot just say whatever they want. In this story, people must buy and eat the words they wish to speak.
Phileas of course is a young boy without the fortune necessary to buy the words he desperately wants to say to his friend on her birthday. So, he catches some words in a net and save them. On her birthday, he speaks very simple but beautiful words to her.
After reading this story, I asked the students what word or phrase they would say to someone they loved if they lived in a world like Phileas’s. The kids came up with a variety of things, but they all thought hard about what to choose.
Here is the document, click here, I created to use with the kids for this story time.
You can see their choices and their art below. Enjoy!
Mrs. Conboy’s Class
Mrs. Meyer’s Class
Mrs. Black’s Class
Mrs. Dolezal’s Class
Mrs. Evans Class