Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Students experiment with poetry patterns


We aren’t doing spelling this week or next, due to testing and preparation. 
In writer’s workshop today we worked with another poem pattern.  We chose the ABAB pattern.  In this pattern, lines 1 and 3 rhyme and lines 2 and 4 rhyme in a stanza.  I gave 2 lines and each child wrote the next 2 and those that wanted shared theirs.  Then each child wrote all four lines of a stanza and shared, if so desired.  This was done quickly and I was impressed at how quickly they were able to do this. 
In science we did a lab, handed out boat information, and did an art project to relieve a little pre-test stress.

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