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| Eric and Gianna creating their tessellations |
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| Miles working on his arrow tessellation |
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| We made 3D shapes! |
Reading
We continued our poetry unit in Reading and Writing. In Reading, we read more poems from a variety of authors. We also learned about many different poetry terms to use in describing poems such as stanza, rhyme, rhythm and various figurative language including personification and metaphors. Our Friday Homework for this week reviews haikus. Also this past week, we started our new book club groups! As a reminder, we meet on Wednesdays and Fridays. Students should read the assigned pages and complete their book club role sheet before meeting in group. They do receive a grade for this assignment each Wednesday and Friday, and they are allowed to complete their assignment during reading time in class.
Writing/Spelling
In addition to collecting poems, we have also started to write our own poetry. We wrote haikus, couplets, cinquain poems, and a limerick! Students are doing great with this! We will continue our study next week. In Spelling, we took our test over prefixes and suffixes. We will continue with root words, prefixes, and suffixes this coming week.
Social Studies
We continued in Chapter 6 with discussions of the Civil War and unequal rights. The Chapter 6 Test will be this Thursday. Students will receive the study guide on Monday.
Important Info.
This past week, we completed two sample reading MAP test items for practice. They both dealt with poetry texts to compliment our studies. We did one together, and the students sat in their MAP testing seats on Friday to work on the other independently. Our MAP testing dates will be April 22nd and 23rd for Communication Arts, and April 29th, 30th and May 1st for Math. Please try not to schedule any appointments on these days. It is important that your child is in attendance. More information about MAP will come home in the next couple weeks.
On Thursday of last week, we had a special guest visit Long! Author Debra Frasier joined us (on her birthday!) to talk about her life as a writer. We learned how she got some of her book ideas, and we learned that the writing process can last a long time when we continue to revise our work and make it better! It was neat to see that Debra and her editor use sticky notes to revise and improve her ideas. During the assembly, Dr. Parker even dressed up as one of the characters from Debra's books, Miss Alaineus. Congratulations to Spencer and Lola from our class who wrote persuasive letters to win lunch with Debra!
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