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Animal journal
By AnneM

My class "pet" is a stuffed frog that goes with the classroom theme. His name is Mortimer named years ago after a frog in the first grade reading series we used. The name stuck!
I send home the frog with a student each
weekend with his Journal notebook. The note book is the kind that you can slip paper into the front and back plastic cover. The front has a paper that says Mortimer's Weekend Journal and has a picture of a frog. The back paper lets parents and child know what to do through a poem I wrote. Feel free to copy if you like it!
Dear Friend,
When I go with you to stay

at your home, please take good care of me, don't leave me alone. Take me with you to watch what you do(Not left in a backpack the whole weekend through!) Let me come out to see where you stay, to see what's for dinner and what games you play. On Sunday night when your ready for bed, help me write what we did, and then rest your head!

Thank you for a great time!
Love, Mortimer Frog
P.S. Remember the rule....On Monday I have to be back at the school!

I have the notebook paper in the folder each sheet in a paper protector. I start out the year with a note inside from Mortimer to the class telling them about his summer at the teacher's house with her three children
. It sets a good example of how to write what was done during their weekend and also tells them what I did over the summer.

Mortimer's weekend adventure is always shared on Monday during morning meeting time. I really enjoy this activity with my class, I hope you do too!