Friday, January 7, 2011

Preposition Poems

Sliding Snakes

Snakes slide
around tall grass
over ant hills
across multch
into rabbit holes
over tree roots
If you look in a hole you might find a snake.

By Reid

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Bees Fly

Bees fly
above large lakes
around anoying people
in the hot summer
around dead animals
bees fly everywhere!!

By Halle

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Swimming Sea Turtles

Sea turtles swim
in the cool water
beneath the big sea
over colorful fish
between big rocks
Sea turtles swim most of their lives!

By Allison

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Prancing Horses

Horses prance
around the big tree
into the red barn
outside the small stable
behind the farmers house
Horses prance all day!

By: Addison

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By Colten

Jumping Monkeys

Monkeys jump
onto big trees
over small stumps
through big logs
monkeys spend most their time jumping and
playing.

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Frogs Hop
around the rocks
over the stick
past the flower
by the water
onto the lilypad
Frogs spend their life
hopping to different places.

By Jasmyn

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Seals Slide
on the slippery ice
toward the small penguin
on the white fluffy snow
into the big ice hole
toward the dark cold ocean
Seals spend their lives in Antartica

By Katelyn

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Math: Personal Measurements

A17 is about to find out T14's arm span exceeded 50 inches!


C7 smiles while A8 measures her forearm.

C20 works diligently to ensure he measures J10's closed-finger span accurately.






Sunday, January 2, 2011

Noun/Verb Tree w/ Santa "independent" Clauses

We made our own holiday tree and decorated it with noun/verb ornaments to review these crucial parts of speech that make up an independent clause. We then drew our own versions of Santa Claus and wrote three independent clauses in his hat--underling the simple subject once and the simple predicate twice.  An independent clause is a complete sentence that consists of a subject and predicate; the simple subject is a noun (or pronoun), and the simple predicate is a verb.

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To help us learn more about subjects and predicates, two essential parts of an independent clause, we watched the Schoolhouse Rock video clip of "Mr.Morton." We watched it a few times while making the Santa "independent" Clauses and the noun/verb ornaments as well.