The Keeping Quilt

The Keeping Quilt

The Keeping Quilt

We just finished reading The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. It’s a touching story of her family’s journey to America and their celebrations that have occurred with the quilt, from weddings to births to deaths. Since she’s visiting our school on Friday, (I can’t believe it’s so soon either!) we made a class quilt out of pictures students had drawn since we started reading her books. Here are a few of the “squares” we made. and her is most of our quilt:

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