Class Reflection

In Dr. Susan Morrison’s Literacy in the Primary Grades (ELED 3523) class I was assigned to create a repetitive pattern book. As a group, we discussed the assignment in class on March 28th, and on April 6th we went to North West Heights Elementary School to work with the first grade students to create the book. I had four students in my group that I worked with. Once we completed creating the story on April 6th, I left to go type, print, laminate, and bind the story. On April 18th, I went back to the school for the children to illustrate their own books. The books I used to introduce the concept of repetitive pattern was “Five Little Ducks” illustrated by Ivan Bates, and “Just for YU You” by Mercer Mayer. The reason I chose these two books