Helping Kids to Imagine

I was introduced to an amazing book called The Adventures of Beekle:  The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat.  Inspired by a Reederama blog that I followed I read the book to my 1st graders and encouraged them to think of an imaginary creature they would like to meet.  We then added pictures of their imaginary creatures to large cut-outs of Beekle.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Adventures-Beekle-Unimaginary-Friend/dp/0316199982

Students watch a book trailer on the book.

Here are the results of our Beekles.