Sunday, April 28, 2013

Space Haikus, Solar System, Poetry

Earth Day was Monday, April 22nd. Students who earned the previous week's Friday celebration made these fun earths to float in our classroom. They colored coffee filters with blue and green markers. We then sprayed them with water and let them dry. 
They turned out great!



We've been learning about the solar system as well as working on poetry. After researching MANY, MANY facts, students wrote haikus about the different planets to show what they know. A haiku is a poem that has three lines and doesn't have to rhyme. Lines 1 and 3 have five syllables, and Line 2 has seven syllables. 

Written by Mya

Written by Chase

Written by Rushelle

 Written by Robert (aka Bobby)

 Written by Ashlyn

Written by Clayton






The students made travel brochures for the planet of their choice. We are displaying them in the hallway for people to read. 



Our Solar System in the hallway...The students made the planets and fact lists for each planet. They also wrote haikus and made the travel brochures which are displayed. 



The inflatable solar system in our classroom! There are fact lists for each planet on our closets too. We've been living in space. Next stop is the moon!!




We also learned about acrostic poetry. The students chose a topic and wrote it on the cloud. Then on the color strips they wrote sentences to describe the topic. The first letter of each sentence had to spell out the word vertically.



Written by Jason

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