Discovering New Worlds through Books

Just as Columbus discovered new worlds through his travels, the third graders are discovering new adventures through reading and writing. They reccenty did a creative writing assignment in connection with Columbus Day. They had to decide what they would do if they were the captain of one of Columbus' ships and the crew got scared. They then colored a picture of Columbus and cut out a reading ship. On the reading ship they used books they had read to write the title, author, illustrator, and what the book what was about. We then put all this together for an attractive bullentin board.