The Salamander Room was a great row.  We loved the topics that went along with this whimsical storybook about a boy who imagines his room turns into the perfect Salamander habitat.  We really embraced LOTS and LOTS of Nature Study for the two weeks we did this unit.  Here are just some of the topics we covered with our row of The Salamander Room: Language Arts – list making, story setting, parallel construction (see the activity at the bottom of the post), Reading for Knowledge (ie: how to research), copywork, narration Art – a review of various concepts (shadows, viewpoint, color palette, personification, etc.), creating Salt-dough Salamanders and decorating/painting our…