Cannon is embarking on a gardening project this spring to grow potatoes and onions and then donate the fresh produce to a local food bank. To start things off in 1st grade today each teacher had a different activity and the students rotated to every class during the day. Mrs. Greuling had a building challenge for students to build a structure that could hold the weight of a potato. Mrs. Boynton took groups to the garden to plant potatoes and Mrs. Heard took groups and planted onions. Ms. Pettit took classes to the media lab to introduce the WeDo Lego Robotics (which we will begin next week - but that's a different post!) In my class we observed some different types of potatoes and talked about words to describe what they looked, felt, and smelled like.
Then we got creative and started to imagine what potatoes might think about, or love, or fear, or wish for... Students worked on writing potato poems (either about what they had observed or what they could create about those imaginary potatoes) and illustrated their poems. Here are some potato poets hard at work:
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