In this book, a women in the neighborhood notices that there is a boy that needs a new pair of gloves for the winter. She grabs her yarn and knits him a pair. She continues knitting gloves for all the kids in the neighborhood who need new gloves. This is a sweet book that could be meaningful in a second-grade class. I think that it could pair well with a lesson on the different types of irony's. This book contains dramatic irony because the readers know where the gloves come from but the kids do not. Students can practice their knowledge of irony by participating in a turn-and-talk during a read-out-loud about what type of irony is shown within the book.

One snowy day an elderly woman, Sarah, watches children gathering at the bus stop. While they never seem to notice her, she notices them, especially one little boy who has no mittens. That night, Sarah knits the boy a pair of cozy mittens and places them on the blue spruce tree for him to discover. It soon becomes a game, with the children looking for new mittens on the mysterious tree every morning, and Sarah joyfully knitting new ones each night.

sarah, an older woman, started making mittens for the different children around her neighborhood because they didn't have mittens. she hung them up on the tree and they would take them home. eventually she ran out of yarn and all the children had mittens. Then one day there was a basket of yarn for sarah, from the children that she gave mittens to.
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Summary: An elderly woman named Sarah lives alone in her house and loves to watch all of the school children as they wait for the bus every morning. One day she notices a boy with no mittens, so she knits him a pair and hangs them on the Blue Spruce Tree before any of the children arrived the next morning. After that, she knits new mittens every night for all the children. Even though she has never talked to the children, she feels as if they are her own, and every time she runs out of yarn, she is always supplied with a new basket on her front porch.

Classroom Extension Ideas
1. I could do a project teaching the students how to do a simple knitting or weaving activity. Even if they won't be able to make mittens in class, they may descover they like knitting and be able to accmplish mittens or other big tasks later on.

2. Have them write or describe if they could have one item hanging on a tree for a suprise every morning, what it would be.

Summary: Old Sarah knits mittens for all the children waiting for the school bus and hangs them on the blue spruce tree at the bus stop.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Critique: This is a great example of realistic fiction, because the characters, setting, problem, and solution could all be real, but are not.

Theme: This story is about the importance of giving, and how great it is to receive something back, even when it's not expected.

Media: Mixed media