Making Books: Good Morning/Afternoon Dear Earth

One song that we sing each morning and each afternoon is:

Good morning (afternoon) dear earth, good morning dear sun
Good morning dear rocks and flowers everyone
Good morning dear beasts and birds in the trees
Good morning to you, good morning to me.

Aiden had something he wanted to share with us. He had made up his own lyrics: "Good morning dear villagers..." Others started making up their own words too. Pretty soon we had excitement brewing. Everyone had ideas of their own. We decided that we would like to make up our own Good Morning (or Afternoon) songs.

We got right to it! We had books devoted to dinosaurs, animals, family members, classmates...
We used our pink alphabet pages to help us with needed sounds. Some of us sought inspiration from the pictures and words on those pink pages.
We each read our books to our attentively listening classmates.
We shared our stories with friends before taking them home. We promised to read them to moms, dads, dogs, cats, and even pet fish!