It certainly has been a month full of rain... and sleet, and drizzle, and hail... and, yes, some snow. But one great thing about learning is that it is not dependent upon the weather. Actually, extreme weather conditions allow for some very unique, and often timely, learning opportunities. It does however hamper our outdoor recess time, which is a necessity during these spring days!
The classroom has been swirling with poetry this month. As April is National Poetry Month, all fourth graders have been working on creating an individual poetry booklet. Each booklet will have eight unique, original poems and two poems from professional poets. Students have been sharing poems with each other aloud in class and in written form on Edmodo. If you would like to see a collection of class poems, ask your child to log into Edmodo and share some with you. The cumulative assessment for the poetry unit will be a published poetry booklet due at the end of the month.
In conjunction with our poetry unit, we just finished reading Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. It was a short novel told from the perspective of a student learning and growing as a young poet. Much of the discussion spurred from the book was focused on interpreting poems and reactions of students to the development of the main character as a poet. Check out the neat little book trailer here.
