Prior to reading the book today, I had the children illustrate our buried treasure activity from yesterday.  I then had each child tell me what lesson they learned from the activity. 

Rebekah said:  My favorite lesson was that Jesus loves us and we don't need to focus on money, money, money.  We need to focus on the love of Jesus.  That is where our treasure should be. 

Sam said:  I like that the lesson was that Jesus loves you.  That is the best treasure of all.

Bethany Grace said:  My favorite lesson was if you tell someone, "I found acorns" that doesn't help them.  If you tell someone, "I found quarters" that doesn't help them very much.  But if you tell someone about the love of Jesus, that would help them a lot. 

Before reading the story today, I told the children to listen carefully and count how many times they heard the word "I" in the story.  We read the story and then we talked about how we didn't hear the word "I" any in this story.  We talked about it being written in third person.  Each child then wrote a story in third person.  We put these along w/ their illustrations in their folders. 

For fellow rowers, you'll appreciate that Sam's main character in his story was Papa Piccolo.