Encouraging Reading With a Timeless Story About the Human experience.

Funded Dec 10, 2023

Many thanks for your generous donation of the novel The Magicians' Elephant. The novel connected perfectly with our unit's theme: How do people and animals interact? The students have enjoyed reading the story and could not wait to see what would happen in the next chapter. Also, they are now interested in reading other novels by Kate Di Camillo. The students have enjoyed the way she weaves the story, her memorable characters, and imaginative settings.

The students completed some creative writing activities as they read the novel. For example, after reading the first few chapters, the students created comic strips of the major events they had read thus far. Also, the students chose a character and created an acrostic poem that highlighted the character's qualities. Many students also chose to include an illustration. To finish the novel, the students chose a character and created a playlist for that character. Once again, many thanks for your donation to our project!”

With gratitude,

Ms. Teurbe-Tolon