Introduction:  Talk about your pet or pets to the students.  Tell them what you love about your pet.  Read the following poem.
Pet Love
By Lee Bennett Hopkins
Hopkins, Lee Bennett. A pet for me poems. HarperCollings: New York. 2003.
All pets give love back
to you
in many
mysterious
wondrous ways--

wet kisses
soft hisses
snuggles
neights--

through moments
through hours
of
pet-loving days.
IExtension: Let the students talk about their pets or the pet they would like to have.  Have them do finger-paint drawings of their pets and let them share them.  Read the poem again.
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