It was such a busy week that Mrs. Cooper didn’t even have time to get student input into our blog. We had school pictures, time with our buddies, lots of math learning, word exploration, poetry writing, two walking field trips….and so much more! Be sure to ask us about the best part of our week. In writing, we did a free write where we could each decide what we wanted to write about, while being sure to focus writing in complete sentences and also adding detail so our writing wasn’t boring. We also wrote about the setting in our book so that next week we can make our props and other details for our novel set. When we did this, it was important to reflect on what details we heard in the book and how we could communicate them in clear ways. Some of our favorite writing however was from our walking field trips. We watched the leaves fall to the ground and brainstormed the many words we could use to describe them. Some of the words we came up with were: dancing, gliding, floating, twirlin