Beechwood

• After reading “The Kissing Hand,” “Elmer,” “The Bus Ride,” “The Gingerbread Man” and “Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom,” Dara Hendrix’s kindergartners learned “I love you” in sign language; created a patchwork elephant; made edible gingerbread men that “ran away”; and made edible coconut trees.