Week of March 21-24

This week, the 3rd graders created illustrations inspired by poems and went on a poetry scavenger hunt, looking for poetic language like similes, metaphors, alliteration, personification, and onomatopoeia. Check out the picture below of how each student visualized the poem "Sunset" by Lillian Moore.

In 4th grade, we continued to explore puns and the language of Shakespeare. We learned that Shakespeare made up many words that we still use today! Here is a list of some of those words:
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html

The 5th graders learned the skill of mind mapping and how it helps us store and retain information. We started to create mind maps for our possible TED Talk topics. Over the next month, the students should continue to work on these mind maps by doing lots of research.