In the story, it gives 10 rules for finding the perfect rock. After reading these rules, we went out onto the playground to find our perfect rocks. Here were the 10 rules:
1. Go to a mountain made out of nothing but a hundred million small, shiny, beautiful, roundish rocks. But if you can't, anyplace will do.
2. Don't let anyone talk to you. You should choose a rock when everything is quiet.
3. Bend over, sit on the ground if needed, with your head almost touching the earth. Look a rock right in the eye to choose a good one.
4. Don't get a rock that is too big. It needs to fit your hand and your pocket.
5. Don't choose a rock that is too small. It could be easily lost.
6. The size must be perfect. It must feel easy in your hand and jumpy in your pocket when you run.
7. Look for the perfect color.
8. The shape is up to you, but your rock must look good all by itself.
9. Always sniff a rock. Some kids can tell by sniffing whether a rock came from the middle of the earth or the ocean or from a mountain where wind and sun touched it every day for a million years. (Grown ups can't tell these things--they can't smell as well as kids can!)
10. Don't ask anyone to help you choose!
Then, we went inside to further investigate our rocks. We looked at them closely with hand lenses and wrote about what our rock looks like, feels like, and smells like. We wrote about why we chose our perfect rocks out of the millions on the playground.
Happy rock hunting!
Mrs. H :)
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