Dear Parents,
After brainstorming giant sea creatures, the class voted on which one to create. There was a tie between the giant manta ray and the colossal squid. The runner-ups were the blue whale and the whale shark. We learned that the giant manta ray lives up to forty-five years, while the colossal squid only lives one to two years.
We looked at several pictures of colossal squids before assembling his body out of two colossal pieces of paper, stapled together. We fed him all of our lists and dictations off of our walls from the whole school year, but not before reading and reminiscing. Our colossal squid is filled with our memories. We also fed him our weeping willow tree. We painted him a burnt orange and set him free in our ocean mural.
Our birthday fish swam across the room to join him in the ocean.
Have a Colossal Weekend,
Therese