Kissing Hand Book Buddy Project

These are the projects that we completed with a little help from our 4th Grade book buddies for The Kissing Hand.  

Before we began the project, we helped the 4th graders become familiar with the story of Chester and his mama in The Kissing Hand by watching an online StoryTime by Barnes and Noble available at:  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/online-storytime-books-toys/379003588 in which Audrey Penn, the author reads the story in her own voice!

The fourth graders traced their kindergarten book buddy's hand and cut it out.  Then they read the kindergarten student the starter:  "I want to learn how...."  The fourth graders recorded the kindergarteners' dictations of what they want to learn how to do in kindergarten on the lines at the bottom of the page.  The handprints were glued to the center and students folded down their fingers to make "I love you."  A heart for Chester and the Kissing Hand was glued to the middle of the palm of each hand.

As you can see, each Chester is special and unique.  The kindergarten students were given the pieces for Chester in stages and were asked to follow the directions to color the different pieces.  These are far from perfect, but I think they are absolutely perfect!

Each Chester is made up of 9 hearts, 2 eye balls, and a tail.  Not all of the Chesters had all of the pieces by the time they were finished, but they are all very cute and special!  We look forward to many projects with our book buddies this year!