THIRD GRADE LEARNING TO SEW RABBits

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo is a third grade whole class reading book. The story is about a stuffed animal toy rabbit who travels the world getting lost and found by new owners and changing his identity many times. After reading the story the students have begun learning how to sew  so that they an make their own stuffed bunny, and eventually hope to write a story about his or her adventures and why their bunny looks the way it does. Sewing has involved, cutting out patterns, hand stitching, embroidery, and machine stitching. They work on it weekly and is based on this pattern.