Today, during Reading Workshop, the children ran into an unexpected hitch. The characters in the book we are reading are visiting a big city and they stumble across a huge fountain.
Unfortunately, none of the children in the class has ever seen one in Indianapolis. It’s just then that Henry, six years old, smiling with satisfaction, bails out his classmates describing what a fountain looks like.
“My grandparents live in Milan, in Italy. Over there, fountains are all over the place, and they are beautiful!”