Weekly Update

Greenfield Village Field Trip:

Students loved traveling back in time during our field trip to the historic Greenfield Village!  You can check out tons of great photos from our special day in the slideshow below.  (Double click on the slideshow to view larger versions of the photos and download individual pictures.  If you can't see the slideshow, click HERE to view the album)

Poetry Workshop:

Students learned to write 3 different types of poetry this week.  Read the descriptions below to learn more about Haiku, Odes, and Acrostic poems.

HAIKU

Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry characterized by the number of syllables in each line.  Haiku poems have only 3 lines, or phrases.  The first line should have 5 syllables, the second line 7 syllables, and the 3rd line should have 5 syllables.

ODE

An ode is a lyric poem, usually addressing a particular person or thing.  It originated in ancient Greece.

ACROSTIC POEM

An acrostic poem is a poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase.

Sharing our Poetry

Students are given many opportunities to share their poetry.   Sometimes they share their poems with their poetry partner, and other times students share their poetry with the entire class in our Author's Chair.

Math:

We are continuing our study of fractions in our last math unit of the school year.  This past week, students learned how to locate fractions less than and greater than one on a number line.  They also compared unit fractions using fraction bars and number lines.

Social Studies:

We continued our travels in the Southwest Region during the past two weeks with stops at Carlsbad Cavern in New Mexico, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, and the capitol building in Austin, Texas.  

All-Star of the Week:

Luke was our awesome All-Star of the Week!  He loved sharing special items from his sharing sack, especially a trophy that he won with his soccer team at a recent tournament.  He also shared great photos of himself that marked special moments in his life.  He read an all-time favorite book to the class, If you give a Mouse a Cookie.  He even celebrated his birthday this week and enjoyed the special day with a lunch buddy visit from his dad.  On Friday, his dad created an amazing PowerPoint with highlights of Luke as a baby, Luke's interests and hobbies, and as well as special times they've shared together.