A Color of His Own

Today we read A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni.  Looking at the cover of the book, the children had a hard time guessing that it was a chameleon.  Most thought that is was a lizard and some guessed that it was an iguana or a gecko.  But they learned that a chameleon changes its color to match its surroundings (or what it is standing on).

We had fun thinking of what the chameleon would look like if he was on our shirt. One girl had on a zebra striped shirt and we all got a good laugh thinking about a zebra-striped chameleon.

Tomorrow the children will have the opportunity to paint a paper shaped chameleon a color of their own at art center.