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got feedback from the kids about what they liked and whatever it was I went with that idea," Miss Stoltzfus continued. “They really liked the stories that I told about my personal experiences in Hawaii. For instance, it rains for at least five minutes every day in Hawaii. Everyone told me to take an umbrella but I wouldn’t and I'd always get soaked.”
The students had their own ideas about what they liked. Sally Lawler said, “I liked making our book with the Hawaiian words.”
April Jolliffe “liked the dance.”
Kristi Hudson enjoyed “bringing in things for the luau like bananas and kiwi.”
Melissa Dodson was surprised that “the fish are all different colors there.”
Nicky Magee liked “watching the slides because some of them showed the inside of a volcano. It looked like spider webs in it.”
“From the very beginning I got a lot of parental feedback. By the end of the month the parents were ready to get this over with because their children were bouncing and all they wanted to know was about Hawaii. Then they started bringing things and telling me stories that they knew about Hawaii. I had one parent say her child came home and immediately wanted to look Hawaii up in the encyclopedia.”
“They didn’t realize the size of the islands. On the map the islands appear tiny. So when they saw an actual picture of the island they said that couldn’t be right because it should be smaller.”
“It was difficult for them to understand what an island was. In the slides I kept stressing the fact that there was water in every picture because water is so close wherever you
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