Pinky and Rex and the Mean Old Witch

Today we finished our unit of study on Characters.  This week in our reading workshop we read the book Pinky and Rex and the Mean Old Witch.  In this book the characters Pinky and Mrs. Morgan go through a character change.  As a class we created a graphic organizer that showed both Mrs. Morgan and Pinky at the beginning of the book, the turning point (the event that caused change) and Mrs. Morgan and Pinky at the end of the book.  Students used pictures and information from the text to write a constructed response.  Our graphic organizers and students' work will soon be hanging outside our classroom - come take a peek!  After students finished their responses we had a culminating activity.  Students made healthy breakfast bars while I read aloud Pinky and Rex Get Married.