Exciting Eighth Week! Spotlight on: Book Buddies

Every week we put our reading and writing skills to work and send a book review to a student across town at Sinclair Elementary. Our “Book Buddies” are also partners in our “Garden Exchange”. They send us pine needles and mulch from their nature center and we send them seeds we’ve harvested from our pollinator gardens as well as extra milkweed and other nectar plants we uproot for them.

Every Wednesday we read a story as a class and follow as specific letter format to send our recommendations to our partner. We write a brief summary (being careful not to give too much of the story away!), and our personal opinion of that week’s book. We get their response to our letters and their recommendations of a good book on Fridays. It is a good way for us to use writing for its real purpose – communicating information to another person at a distance.

The link in the sidebar this week will take you to our partner class’ blog, so you can meet them too. Click on 10/14/13 under the “Weekly Wrap-Up”.