Our Bottle Tree

    In the book Because of Winn-Dixie, Gloria Dump surprises Opal by showing her a bottle tree. Gloria’s tree is full of different kinds of bottles – “the ghosts of all the things I done wrong,” she says. On Friday, we decided to make a bottle tree symbolizing all of the things that we did right. Each child was asked to write down one good thing he or she has accomplished this year. They then rolled up their pieces of paper and placed them into their plastic bottles. These accomplished were then added to the tree outside of our classroom to remind us that we’ve all done something that we can be proud of. Ask your child when accomplishment they placed inside of their bottle. Also get them to give you a summary of what has happened so far in Because of Winn-Dixie, and what they think may happen next.