What a exciting week we have had with our visiting authors Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger! The students certainly impressed these poets with their enthusiasm for learning and writing skills.
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| Crazy Poets!!!! |
- a poem is a snapshot of time
- we need to focus on details
- we need to back up our opinions and not just use specific facts such as "The sky was a blaze of red as the sun retreated to the earth", rather than "The sky was nice."
- VERBS are the most powerful words
- try to use uncommon comparisons and not cliches
- choose one point of view and stick to it
- double check the basics
- poems need to be driven by a story
- we can use sensory words to write poems(taste, smell, looks like, feels like, sounds like)
- we can write poetry using information gained from our nonfiction studies in science and social studies
- poets plan from a list
Using our learning from our unit on Freedom, students shared their poetry creations at the assembly:
Poetry Assembly from marriott on Vimeo.
Students are presently working on a freedom project where they are researching a famous person who has contributed to freedom. This will encompass our reading, writing and social studies time over the next few weeks.
In math we have finished up our fraction unit and are working on decimals, a sister of fractions. Students will be expected to know:
- how to represent decimals using various units
- how or order decimals
- reading and writing decimals to the tenths, hundredths and thousandths
- rounding decimals to the nearest tenths and hundredths
- equivalent decimals
- adding and subtracting decimals
- solving decimal word problems
Students will be leaders in our upcoming 100th day events on Friday but are still welcome to participate in the hundred day collection.
Until next time,
Theresa
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