Classroom Update!

I absolutely cannot believe it is May already!  We have been busy these past few weeks with so many different topics.  Here’s a peek into our latest classroom fun!
April is National Poetry month and we took this opportunity to learn about a variety of poetic techniques, such as figurative language, similes, alliteration and more.  We read many different types of poems and looked at how the author used mental images and descriptive words and phrases to draw in the reader. We also used what we learned to create our own poems.

 Our math time has been focused on a completely different topic than the number sense and place vale that has been our focus so much this year.  We learned about 2D (plane) and 3D (solid) shapes – using descriptive vocabulary  like edges faces, vertices, and the names of shapes such as quadrilateral and parallelogram.  By far our favorite activity centered around this chart and this bulletin board display we created for the hallway

Verbs have been our focus for grammar lately.  We like to create our own personal anchor charts to use as we study specific skills.

And finally, we just finished up our reading unit on folktales.  We read these three tales and read versions of each from different culture.

Then we compared and contrasted story elements, themes and story structures.  The Anansi stories were definitely our favorite!

With only 7 weeks left of school, we'll be turning our thoughts to plants and gardens, telling time and reviewing everything we have learned.  Our days will continue to be busy, busy, busy!