A Week of Sharing
Week #29 April 1-5, 2019

Thank you for attending parent conferences this past week.  It was great for us to spend time together sharing all of your children's progress and to think about goals for the remainder of the school year.  Oh my this year is flying by!

We enjoyed our morning meeting sharing theme with "literary gifts" this week.  Students enjoyed hearing their peers' favorite reads as well as their stories behind why it was their favorite read.  So far students have shared an informational picture book, a find-it book, a fiction picture book and a meme book about dogs' thoughts.  Thank you for supporting your child as they pick their "literary gift" to share.

We particularly like our poetry shares.  We know that poetry is meant to be read aloud, so not only do I give & read aloud a new poem to the students each day, but they read poetry books in pairs and write their own poetry to read aloud to the class.  Here's a few of our Haiku from this week's writing sessions. As you read aloud the poems below, I'm sure you can visualize how we are using our poet's eyes to generate our inspiration.  Using our poet's eyes is our way to sense our topic, and use our imaginary mind & soulful heart to describe it as well.

Whoosh swing whiff strike one

Whoosh swing whiff strike two oh no

Whoosh swing crack home run

--Henry

Smooth and pretty cool

A blue bird on my window

Like a blue ocean

--Bella

Draw different places

Better and better ideas

They notice my art

--Tyler

Tweeting in the air

Beautiful little birdies

Sing at your window

--Molly

Other things to ask your child about this week:
*The number of popsicle sticks we counted
*The number of cubes we counted
*The results of our paper weathering investigation (the color and size changed!)
*Our guidance lesson with Mrs. Wheeler about standing up to bullies
*Painting sakura tree branches


Thank you for all you do!
Mrs. Hock