When school resumed in January, PreK was introduced to Escargot, a beautiful French snail, in the library.  Mrs. Doogan read them Escargot and A Book for Escargot by Dashka Slater.  In A Book for Escargot, the reader is challenged by Escargot to write their own story.  Mrs.  Doogan taught the PreKers the different parts of a story.  Then they worked together to brainstorm the characters, setting, problem/solution, and the plot of the story.  Over the next week, Mrs. Doogan worked on writing the story in Ms. Slater’s style.  After the students had a chance to edit and revise the story, they started working on their illustrations.  Mrs. Doogan was so proud of the work they did that she wrote Ms. Slater telling her about the lessons and the story.  She offered to send Ms. Slater a recording of the book.  Mrs. Doogan was pleasantly surprised when she quickly received a response from the author that she would love to see the book.  After seeing video, Ms. Slater sent Mrs. Doogan another message saying, “This is adorable!”  She gave us permission to share the story.

Below is the recording of PreK’s book, Escargot goes to the Beach.  Enjoy!