As I'm sure you may have heard at home our Farm Unit in math is off and running and boy are we having fun! The students are working in teams of four or five to create a model farm. So far, they have had to work together to make decisions on what to call their far and how to spend their money on a road,farmhouse, barn, silo and tractor. This has taken a lot of cooperation and the students were introduced to what the word compromise means! Next week we will begin to buy fencing and think about what animals we will purchase for our farms while learning about what contributions each animal makes. We are all learning so much about farms, math and teamwork while having fun at the same time.
In Reader's Workshop the students continue to practice reciting poetry as they begin to prepare for our Synergy Poetry Jam which is being held on May 25th from 6:30-7:30. The students have also learned about how poets add juicy words to their poems by using similes; that is when you compare one thing to another by using the words like or as. (Ex. The mom was as busy as a bee, the tired first grader slept like a baby)I have told the class to be on the lookout for this type of figurative language in poetry books, fiction books and in conversations because we use them all the time! In Writers Workshop the class has learned how to write acrostic poems and created a special one for all of our moms. Next week we will write poems about our favorite color using our five senses.
We were fortunate enough to be able to end the week with a sneak preview of the middle school spring play, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. The students loved the play and were very respectful audience members. I even heard some of them aspiring to be on the stage when they reached middle school!
I hope that everyone had a restful Mother's Day and got a chance to enjoy this much deserved spring weather.
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