Summer Vacation

It has been great getting to know everyone this year. You should all be proud of the hard work you did this year. I hope you all have a fabulous summer!

Oh! Don't forget to....

Happy Summer Vacation!

Well, it's that time of year again - time for summer vacation!  I have enjoyed working with all of you this year.  You have worked very hard, and I am very proud of the progress you have made.

Look how big Sheldon got!!

I hope you have a wonderful summer, and don't forget to 

read! 

READ!

READ!

Poem of the Week ~ A Time to Remember

A Time to Remember

Author Unknown

Memorial Day is a time to remember,

To honor and show our respect

For all the men and women who gave up their lives

For the country they fought to protect.

Although we cannot picture all of their faces,

Nor recognize each person's name,

We give thanks today for those brave U.S. soldiers,

When called by our country, they came.

Poem of the Week ~ Grade 4

On My Nature Hike

by Neal Levin

Lizard skitters on a path,

Muskrat takes a rustic bath,

Beaver weaves a home of sticks,

Dragonfly does fancy tricks,

Mallard glides among the reeds,

Chipmunk rustles in the weeds, 

Turtle moseys through the mud,

Whitetail nibbles on a bud,

Eagle soars across the sky,

Warbler sings a lullaby...

I'm as quiet as can be,

Only watching peacefully.

Boy, oh boy!  This poem introduced us to a lot of new words!  Do you know what a warbler is?  We used context clues to guess, and some of us were right!  A warbler is a bird.  

We also noticed that this poem has an AA, BB, CC pattern and that every line has 7 syllables.  

Poem of the Week ~ Grade 3

All Things Live Together

by Lill Pluta

Rivers fill with raindrops.

Grassy meadows bloom.

Up above the mountaintops,

hawks and eagles zoom.

Porcupines, opossums,

skunks, raccoons, and bears,

foxes, beavers, owls, and elk,

badgers, snakes, and hares.

Creatures in the woodlands,

creatures in the sky,

creatures in the streams and fields,

creep and swim and fly.

    

First we looked up pictures of animals that we weren't familiar with.  Do you know that an elk looks like a reindeer?  Or that a badger looks like a cross between a skunk and a raccoon?  We think that a hare looks like a bunny with a little kangaroo mixed in?

Then we counted the syllables in each line.  We noticed a pattern. In every stanza, the first line has 6 syllables, the second line has 5 syllables, the third line has 7 syllables, and the last line has 5 syllables.  Do you think the poet did this on purpose?  We do.

Who's Reading What?

These are some of our favorite books.  

Can you guess who's reading what?

Poem of the Week ~ It Must Be Spring