One of our class's favorite books is Eve Bunting's Night Tree. It is the story of a family that drives a short distance to the outskirts of the city to a secluded placed called Luke's Forest. The entire family partakes in this ritual annually. They prepare for weeks making feeders and cutting up fruit and shelling nuts for the animals who live there. After hanging the feeders in the tree that they have adopted as their own, they all sit down on a warm blanket, sip hot cocoa, and sing songs. The students thought it would be fun to make our own feeders with peanut butter and bird seeds. We wrote about Our Night Tree, and then had Mr. Mike Jordan hang our feeders in the oak trees outside the Intermediate School. Enjoy the quicktime movie of our day.