Keeping Quilt

Our reading story for this past week was called "The Keeping Quilt." It was about a family from Russia who came to America. To help remember their country, the women made a quilt out of fabric that reminded them of the people and places they left behind. The quilt was passed down from generation to generation until it ended up in the home of the author of the story. It is a great story and we loved reading it as a class!

To go along with the story, we made our own "Third Grade Keeping Quilt." Since I do not like to sew and that would have taken way too much time, we made it out of butcher paper and construction paper. Each student made something from construction paper that represented a memory they will keep from third grade. My plan is to laminate the "quilt" and display it next year for our open house night. That way my third graders from this year can come back and see their quilt. It will also be neat for the upcoming third graders to see what other third graders have liked about our class.

Here is a picture of our keeping quilt: