The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Today the younger students finished reading the book, The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. We were all captivated by the story and thought a lot about what life might be like for a mouse living in a hotel. During read aloud, we have been talking about how we imagine the characters to look in our minds. The students spent some time drawing how they imagined Ralph (the mouse) to look. Some also drew how they were imagining the motorcycle to look. It was interesting to see how many different pictures we had in our mind, but yet how similar they were in some ways. The following are a few of the students' interpretations of The Mouse and the Motorcycle.