Dragons

Today was a good day! Maybe my optimism is paying off...

We've been talking about making connections when we read, and today we talked about making text to world connections using The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. I sure do love that man and his environmentally friendly liberal ways! After I read the story, we talked about how it connects to our real world. I asked what would happen if we cut down all of our trees and didn't plant any new ones, and Johnny said, "We'd have to move to Texas!" To which Riley added, "My grandma lives in Texas!" I think they really got it. 

Also, this happened: 

Nathan: "What's that thing... where they train the lions?"
Me: "The circus?"
Nathan: "Yeah! We're going to the circus for my sister's birthday! And we're going to see a real dragon there! Because there are real dragons in Slovenia. So they're going to have him at the circus, and he'll breathe fire, and then he'll go back to Slovenia because that's where he's from.... Or, you know, from a factory where they make rubber."
Me: "Wait. So is this a real dragon? Or a fake one made out of rubber?"
Nathan: "... I'm not really sure..."

(I want him to keep believing in real dragons. Why not?)