Tuesday, October 13, 2015

POETRY:   Voki: Record you descriptive words to describe a fruit, without identifying the fruit
Picture Poem: Ink & Tagul picture poem PAST DUE
**This is a Poem That...
Visit the website Instant Poetry Forms and scroll down the menu on the left side of the screen.  Select "This is the Poem That ..." and fill in the boxes following the prompts based on the a topic of choice. Record your poem in Voki Due Friday Oct.16th

POETRY: Create a list of descriptive words Tuesday & Wednesday evening.  Then write your first draft Beauty of Pollination Poem with the list of descriptive words inspired by the Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination. (scroll to 3:20 to begin viewing the timelapse video)  DUE Thursday Oct. 15th



MATH:  Looking at Fractions and its relationship with Percent
Practice your multiplication tables for 7, 8:  Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

DRAMA: Shadow Performances:  Create shadow images along the wall using your body (movement or tableau) to convey a message.

SCIENCE: students are looking at how tree classifications systems organize information; focussing on Diversity of Living Things over the next few weeks in class
* collect leaves within our school community: we will be creating a 'tree classification system' in class later this week

Global Read Aloud: We have completed our first week participating in the Global Read Aloud! We are reading Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt.  When visiting the kidblog, login then click on 'Tavares' in the sidebar for instructions on your task.
***Thank you for sharing in both Padlets within kidblog
***Thank you for sharing a comment in the Animal Parable post
*** Weekly Post #1 is PAST DUE