We recently read a story in our basal reader entitled This Is the Way We Go to School by Edith Baer and Steve Bjorkman. This is a book about children around the world and it describes the many different ways they get to school. As part of a follow-up activity the boys and girls chose a character(s) from the story who they would like to meet. It was fun to imagine what it would be like to ski, take a boat, or go to school by radio. Watch this space for the students' writing about this topic...