Week of May 18-22

This week, my 5th graders blew me away with their presentations of their passion projects!!!  The work they did while I was on maternity leave was truly inspiring, and I hope they continue to work on these and other passions in the future.  Thanks to Ms. Maline for guiding the students on this amazing journey!  I added a new page where visitors to this blog can check out the students' projects.

HW: watch debate video and answer questions; complete sheet I sent about debate topics

In 4th grade, we worked on strong intros and incorporating research into our persuasive speeches.  For homework, students will complete their speeches and make slides for the presentation using preferred program (google slides, prezi, etc.).  Practice speech at home and have family member use rubric to give you feedback.

The third graders learned about poetic techniques like repetition, lists, describing things in interesting/surprising ways and tried some of the techniques in their own poems.
3c also looked for the rhythm in poems and put them to music.  Check out the video below:
HW: Write two poems using the techniques we discussed in class.