Dear Parents and Students,
Don't forget to order your Star water bottle!!
Friday is fun day!!! During class we will be playing games and enjoying a
snack or two. Remember if your student wants to participate in the white
elephant grab bag they are to bring in a wrapped, chapter, age appropriate,
book.
Following are the spelling words for this week:
picture
person
perfect
attend
number
support
common
welcome
offer
expert
harvest
survive
suppose
perform
escape
helmet
allow
fellow
barber
tender
ornate
spectacle
palate
concocted
The worksheet and sentences are due Thursday. There will be spelling test on
Thursday.
Also due Thursday the students should have read up to and including chapter
20 in either Holes or Crispin. There will be a quiz on those 10 chapters.
Poem requirements and illustrations are to be done by Tuesday!!!!
You may have to complete the art at home.
Following are the poems and the rubric for each poem that has to be completed
by Friday.
1. Haiku – has 3 lines. First line has 5 syllables, second line has 7
syllables and the third line has 5 syllables.
2. Metaphor Poem compares one thing with another very different thing. A
metaphor does not use the words like or as. Ex. The road was a ribbon of
black.
3. Diamante Poem has a definite pattern to it.
Line 1 and 7 state subjects that are opposite (puppy/dog)
Line 2 has two adjectives describing the subject in line 1
Line 3 has three action words specific to line 1
Line 4 has four adjectives. The first two describe line 1 and the
second two describe the subject in line 7.
Line 5 has three action words specific to line 7
Line 6 has two adjectives describing the subject in line 7
Line 7 the opposite subject of line 1
4. Free Verse is a poem written without a pattern or rhyme, meter or
line length. Use this poem to tell about feelings.
5. Lyric Poem – Focus on feeling and impressions. This poem should be
two stanzas with a rhyming pattern. This poem has rhyming pattern of lines 1
and 3 rhyme, 2 and 4 rhyme 5 and 7 rhyme, and 6 and 8 rhyme.
6. Alliteration – When several words that begin with the same sound are
next or each other or close together. Ex. Bubble, bays, babble
7. Personification – When a writer describes something that is not human
as having human qualities or capabilities.
8. Onomatopoeia – When a word sounds like the noise or sound that it stands
for. The Buzz of a bee can be written The Buzzzzzzz of a bee went past my
ear!