What's Going On In Our Classroom? Weekly Update from Ms. Goldy: Week of 3/7-3/11

Hello!
This week has been great!
In Social Studies, we wrote postcards from the perspective of colonists from either Spanish colonies, Jamestown, or Plymouth. The kids showed their knowledge well and drew some creative pictures on the front of their postcards! We are now beginning our unit on the 13 Colonies, and so far we've been learning a lot of interesting things!

In Writing Workshop we are still working on our poetry unit. This week, we learned about similes and metaphors and came up with creative examples to describe our friends in the classroom! We also learned about personification and drew great (and often hilarious!) pictures of what a sentence using personification would look like if it was taken literally. Like our previous poems, each of these will eventually be compiled into individual book that the students will make and bring home in a few weeks.

On Tuesday, our class visited Beauvoir Elementary School to pair up with second graders and plant spinach and lettuce seeds. In the Spring we will return and make a salad with our own vegetables! The kids had a great time and the 2nd graders did too!!

That's all for now,
Have a great weekend!
Ms. Goldy