This week the Primary Blogging Community started.  We are excited to be partnered up with classes from Ontario, Illinois and Michigan.  We are learning about commenting.  We try to make a compliment that lets the blogger know we appreciate what they’ve shared.  We might make a connection or add information if we have some to share.  We’ll try to end with a question to start a conversation and, of course, we’ll proofread and add punctuation.  We’ll also try to share our excitement and enthusiasm with more words, instead of a string of exclamation points.  We’ve sent comments to  two of our partner classes and we’ve practiced our commenting on our classmates’ blogs too. We’ve got two more to connect with. We’re looking forward to that.

This week during our blogging time many of us shared the poems we wrote in September.  Most days in the classroom we read different poems together from charts. Some of our classmates were inspired by those poems and wrote their own.  This, in turn, inspired more people to write poems, and more… until every member of our class had written a poem.  We decided to publish them in a September collection.  Read our blog posts to read some of our poems.  Enjoy!