Kicking Off Book Buddies

This week Ms. Payne's class started meeting with Book Buddies. Buddies chose their books together and couldn't wait to start reading! Book Buddies meet two, sometimes three, times a week to read and think together. Having a conversation about your thinking with a Book Buddy is a huge step in third grade. Check back soon to see some video clips of our conversations!

Coral

By Ella and Kristina

Curvy bumps with an egg shell color. 

One inch of tall of roughness. 

 Tiny red in a secret spot.

 Very light sent of  sea water. 

Connected by a line of coral.
With it's  mute sound of wise flames of silents.
Reminding us of the  ocean sea.

Abalone Shell

By: Henry, Dylan, C.J.  

Round, smooth and dotted, 

moving along with the snail that owned it,

crashing of waves as it was washed up on shore,

black, brown, and white dots on the top,

it sounds like wind inside, 

it is

soft at the bottom.

Seahorse

 By Macy and Lainey

                                                                                                                           

Dirty brown- coffee colors, 

curled tale, 

straw mouth. 

Star shaped eyes, 

little squares, really tiny black dots.   

Hollow and mute. 

Dry spiky body. 

Mouth feels scaly. 

Smells like rotten smelly sea food and stink bugs. 

Taste like sea water and crunchy sand. 

Now lying on a table in a box.


By Ginger and Ty'onte

Dirty brown coffee colors
on its body.
Curled tail.
Star shaped eyes.
A straw-like mouth.
Tiny black dots and
a pattern of
squares on its body.
Smells like stink
bugs
and sea food.
Hollow inside and
sometimes
mute.
Dry, spikey and light. Mouth
feels scaly. I imagine tasting
it,
crunchy sand and spikes,
salty seawater.
Now laying in
the middle of the
table letting
everybody see it. 

Puffer Fish

By Samantha and Mallory    

Spiky, 

rushing through the cold water.

Spinning all around to get to other fish.

Puffs when its scared.

Brown stripes to make his color spark.

Now lying on the back table of room 21.

Puffer Fish Belly

By Jamaine, Andy, and Max

Lying at the bottom of the sea.

Deep,

floating happily,

Washing up on shore dried out,

go to classroom, smelling like air,

dried out and stiff, 

and that's the rest of the puffer fish.

Small Poems

This week we've been reading "small poems" from a book called All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth. Small poems are unique because they're written about one object and they use only the necessary words to describe that object and tell its story...no unnecessary words!

After reading lots of small poems, we wrote down specific observations about this interesting starfish. Using our observations we then wrote our very own small poem called starfish. Check out our observations and the finished poem below.

starfish

by Miss Payne’s class

Walked,

Silver and sparkly,

Glinting through the bright sea.

The mute sound of the starfish moving,

Five bumps like popcorn kernels,

A sandcastle attaching to each leg.

Old,

Scaly underside,

Narrow and light brown like coffee stains.

Curled tips like feet,

Tapping along at the bottom of the ocean.

Now lying dead and dry in a classroom,

Smelling of old seafood.