As I'm sure your child told you, last week during ECO we spent a significant amount of time building mouse houses.  Since then we have been working on a class story about a little mouse who lives in the Wu Forest.  Writing a story with the input of 16 authors takes some time and discussion.  We have been slowly plugging away at the story, talking about the important elements to include in any story (beginning, middle, end, problem, solution), gathering ideas and voting if necessary.  Today we added some final details and the written version of our story is complete.  Ask your child to share it with you.  Our next step will be to break it into pages so each child can be part of the illustrating process and then we will turn it into a class book, with potential for a sequel!