4-5 has been working on poetry in WW. One class we explored writing with a new app called Verses. It's like the magnets in Kai's room where you can slide them around to come up with good lines. We like this app and the magnets because we can discover combinations of words we would never have thought of by just writing. We just experiment to see what sounds good. This is one way that we learn about poetry but we like it. We will also recite some poems we have memorized. We also look in the books for good poems. We also write a lot of poems. Anyway, here is our class' poem from Verses.
Every year 4-5 takes a mystery trip. We don't know where we are going and we find out when we get there. Sometimes we go to the beach or a lake. The teachers kick off the conversation with absurd ideas. Sometimes it is an exotic place or a spot that doesn't even exist. This year they told us we were going to a bean factory, (which was knocked down) a farm that had a rare and elusive invisible sheep called cloud sheep, and that we would be working for the Morton Salt Company picking salt off the salt hay on the marsh. The teachers told us that after we help with the beans and salt we would get credit on the labels of the containers and we would get to bring home the wool of the cloud sheep. Last year's kick off was even more absurd. They told us we were going to a donut farm to plant donut seeds which were cheerios, go to have tea with the late Queen in England, go on a treasure hunt, and visit the cheese museum. After telling us where we were going the teachers gave us a pa...

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