Greetings from Room 119! It seemed like we hadn't had a five-day week of school in quite awhile, but we had a great full week! Tuesday was Earth Day and we learned a lot about how to care for our environment. We read Dr. Seuss's The Lorax with our 5th grade buddies and talked about different things we can do to make sure our Earth remains a clean and healthy place for us to live. We decided that we should all be like the Lorax and "speak for the trees"!
In writing this week we continued to learn about poetry (remember, April is poetry month!). Miss Coe taught us about a certain type of poem called a haiku. We learned that haikus have a specify number of syllables, and we practiced identifying how many syllables are in a word. We counted syllables in our own writing, and are working on creating our own haikus! Fun!
We connected this to reading by looking for words or sentences with a specific number of syllables. To help us, we said the word out loud and clapped for every beat in the word. Miss Coe continues to meet with reading groups during Reader's Workshop, and we will be getting new books to read with her next week! Our reading skills continue to grow - the time spent reading at home is really paying off!
We did FANTASTIC on our Unit 7 math test last week! This told Miss Coe that we learned a lot about the many shapes we have been studying. The test got sent home on Friday so you can take a look at what we learned! This week we learned about equal parts of a whole and how to split something into halves, thirds, fourths, etc. We will continue to practice this and learn about fractions!
Since we finally had a Friday of school again, we were able to have a Mystery Reader come in and visit us! We were so excited to have Hailey's mom come in and read, and we loved the book she chose! As always, let Miss Coe or Mrs. Doran know if you would like to come in as a Mystery Reader!
Lastly, we were very excited to visit the Scholastic Book Fair in our very own media center this week! Many of us were able to get something new to read, and we all had fun exploring the variety of books!
As the saying goes, April showers bring May flowers, and it's hard to believe this week is already the start of May! Hopefully this saying holds true and we have lots of flowers and sunshine coming our way! Can you believe that students only have 29 days of school left this year? Miss Coe only has 9 more school days at Loon Lake, and is already feeling sad about leaving her 26 new friends. We will be sure to spend our remaining school days learning a LOT, and having fun doing it! Have a wonderful week!
