Saturday, October 17, 2015

Friday Oct 16



 Notices

Please bring back the care kit for the earthquake backpack.  Hopefully we do not ever need to use them, however, at the end of the year it is fun to open them up and see what was in them again.




















We began the day with our weekly spelling, socials, math and science test.  I did not get the marks entered on the computer so the tests will come back next week on Tuesday.

We may have a secret master spy in our midst.  A strange message appeared on our library computer.  HMMM very suspicious.

We read a poem by Shel Silverstein called Have Fun.  I started by getting various students to read it out loud. I stopped them quickly if they did not add the proper intonation but quickly went back to them to try again.  I then asked them to think about what the poet was really saying, and how you would use intonation to express meaning.  Then We talked about what the poem is really saying.
Have Fun

It's safe to swim 
in Pemrose park.
I guarantee
There are no sharks

The students then had a chance to try and read it again in the proper voice.  We talked about how complex a simple poem can be.  It can be read all sincere, it can be read menacingly, it can be read as though your trying to convince a brother or sister or enemy to go swimming.   I love Shel Silverstein's poetry.  It is funny and quirky and rings true to children in grade 3 and 4 although Shel said
 "I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick up one and experience a personal sense of discovery."
 The students will be seeing a lot more of Shel Silverstein, Uncle Shelby as he called him self.  After the reading the students had to use Handwriting to write out the poem and add their own creature into the pool.
 







 P shared some treasures of her mom's recent travels to UK and other exotic places.  P loved the little Tiara from the land of Queens and princesses, and a couple of keys from a bridge in Dublin where her mom carved her and here brother's names into a lock and attached it to a bridge. Thanks P for bringing a sense of adventure to our room.















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