Highlights of the week for William

This week Ms. Kathleen put up our shoes that we colored on the marathon road paper. She will move them along the road as we continue through the year. She covered them with a shiny plastic cover to make them look nice.

This week we also tried different poetry strategies for growth mindset poets, for example, structure, perspectives, and strategies for how to put feelings into our poems. I've only used free form for my poem structure, so I'm going to try to use a haiku structure next time. I've also used the perspectives from people and things, but not a place yet, so I'm going to try to use the perspective of a place in my next poem. I might even write a haiku from the perspective of a place! But that's going to be kind of tricky. The rest of the class has done an amazing job on their poems, and a lot of them are really silly.
             We  are also revising our poems this week. Many of our classmates' poems are sounding better now that they are revising them.
             In addition, we are starting our to make our wonder balls this week, which are balls we are making out of paper circles.  We write poems on the circles, and then we fold the circles in half and glue the sides together to make the ball. Here is a picture of a wonder ball Ms. Kathleen made below: