Welcome to Our Blog!

Our classroom blog was created as a place where we can meet online together to reflect on and explore ideas, share opinions, discuss various topics and also create! I am so excited to be a part of all the learning that is going to go on here and I hope you are, too! Now, what about the name of our blog? The Read Wheelbarrow was chosen as a "play on words" and refers to a very interesting poem (I think) by William Carlos Williams called The Red Wheelbarrow. It is the first of many, many poems we will read and discuss. With it our blogging adventure begins...so, happy blogging everyone!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Welcome Back!!


Hello and Welcome Back to Everyone!
I am really looking forward to teaching and learning with you this year! I hope you will all enjoy our BLOG!! :) So many of you were at the CNE this summer and I got to thinking: I wonder what THEME you would have chosen for our CNE chair? Here is a picture of the chair that last year's class designed and painted. The theme was "We all belong at the CNE"! What would you like to paint on the chair if we enter the competition next year?

Also, I would like you to read and respond to this poem:

"The milkweed pods are breaking,
And the bits of silken down
Float off upon the autumn breeze
Across the meadows brown."
- Cecil Cavendish, The Milkweed

I thought of it, because I saw a Monarch butterfly in my garden and learned that, the Monarch butterflies that we see at the end of August will fly all the way to MEXICO, in one trip, before they lay their eggs and rest. That seems incredible to me!

What do you think?
- Ms. Kutertan