The boys continue to write in their journals, a daily occurrence in the kindergarten classroom. Cantrel concentrates on his pencil-manship. Getting a death-grip on his pencil, he attaches a leaded loop to a straight line with a hook. Jones challenges them to come up with an asking sentence about characters in the story. Squirming on the dinosaur rug suddenly stops.
Hands shoot into the air.
The question fairly rushes from the little girl's mouth. The children read the emerging sentence as each word is added. Such repetition engraves the words in malleable minds, Jones says. Tiny Brittni LoSolla climbs onto a pint-sized chair to add her word. Notice what she's going to do right now.