Fifth Graders Experience Sensory Overload--2-28-07

The fifth graders tried different sensory experiences today as a way to understand imagery better. They felt sandpaper, listened to music, ate sour candy, smelled perfume, and watched the disco ball illuminate the room. All in all, they tried 20 sensory experiences, reflecting on each one. By the end of the day, the room really smelled interesting! The kids will now use these experiences to write poems using terrific imagery.

Fifth Graders Experiment with Voice--2-22-07

Fifth-grade Language Arts students tried their hands at writing some poems today, focusing on the voice they used in the poem. After reading poems with different speakers, some students chose to write poems as if talking to an object (apostrophe). One child wrote to her sock. Others chose to use a lyrical voice, including first-person perspective in their poems, for example, pretending to be in a basketball game. Some used dramatic voice, pretending to be an object or item, such as a leaf talking to its visitors under the tree or a pencil, ready to write. Still other students used narrative voice and told a story through their poems. All enjoyed hearing each other share writing samples, which will be edited and placed into each student's poetry booklet. Keep on writing!