Students in Erika Higgins’ grade 5 class recently completed their Writer’s Workshop unit on poetry, while their grade 2 little buddies in Brooke Nelson’s class were about to begin their own writing unit on poetry. It was a perfect time for the students to come together.

 

On what was scheduled to be a Buddy Lunch day on campus, the grade 5 and grade 2 buddies instead met on Zoom to reconnect and share poetry from the older students’ writing unit.

 

“The grade 2 perspective was not just to see the big buddies but to also listen to some really great examples of poetry and provide a PAWsitive comment about a piece of the poetry they enjoyed,” Mrs. Higgins said.

 

The Lower School Buddy Program partners younger students with older ones, one-on-one for a year of mentorship. A kindergarten student is paired with a grade 3 student, a grade 1 student with a grade 4 student and a grade 2 student with a grade 5 student. The different grades get together throughout a year for Buddy Lunch, Buddy Chapel and classroom activities.