After recess we worked on our poetry. Many of us were able to get our first drafts finished and moved on to decorating (grade 1) or writing out our good copies (grade 2). In order to improve our work today we talked about, and tried a few different strategies. The first strategy was sharing our work with a partner and asking for feedback. The second strategy was using the list of ideas we created as a class to help us come up with our next idea. Sometimes it helped to read this list with a friend who could help us figure out tricky words.
This afternoon we started talking about our next science project. We are going to be doing research about insects and other bugs. We are each going to choose one type of insect or bug to research so that we can become an expert. Today we had a chance to look up some options on the computers. Many of us were ready to choose at the end of the day today and told Ms. Boyer our choice. A few of us weren't quite ready to pick and will try to look up some more ideas at home and then tell Ms. Boyer our choice tomorrow. So far praying mantis and spiders are very popular choices in room 2! Ask me about my choice.
