Goats and Poetry!

Dear families,

Clubs started today. We did good in clubs and had a lot of fun.

This week we read a book called "Beatrice's Goat." A program helped this girl Beatrice's family in Uganda. The program is called Heifer International. The program gave Beatrice's family a goat! They gave her a goat because goat's milk is healthy, even healthier than cow's milk. Beatrice's family drank the milk and they sold the milk to get money. Beatrice got to go to school. Before that, she never went to school before but she always wished she could go. This is a true story, and we researched Beatrice on the computer and found pictures of her graduating from a college in the United States. She grew up to study how to help poor people who need help, just like she did.



Our class is thinking about how to raise money to buy a farm animal from Heifer International to give to a family who needs help. Stay tuned, we'll tell you our ideas later!

We're also starting to write poems for Writing Workshop.

This week some people wrote some silly poems, poems about people, poems with repeating parts and nonfiction poems. Here is a silly one Emily wrote:

Lazy

My name is Jazy.
I am always crazy.
I always cook
from a book.

But because I am so crazy

I always cook lazy.

by Emily

See you later, families!

The First Graders