This week our class read The Perfect Pet by Margie Palatini. The main character, Elizabeth, desperately wants a real pet and she tries various crazy strategies to convince her parents to agree. Her parents, however, think that her prickly cactus plant, Carolyn, is just fine as a "pet". As we read this story we talked about how difficult it would be to cuddle a cactus as compared to a typical pet such as dog, bunny or cat ... until Lexie told us about her petting cactus! She brought it into school the next day to show us, and we all took turns feeling how soft this cactus truly is! In the story, Elizabeth does finally convince her parents to let her have a new pet ...which one? Ask your third grader! :)
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