End of Week Update, 5/15

Yay for our Tanaya, celebrity singer for this week!

What we've been up to:

Room 20 packed a lot of fun and learning into this past week!

In math, we kicked off our study of geometry.  We learned about points, lines, and planes.  We can explain what makes a polygon a polygon and we organized our polygons into a "tree" chart to help us identify and classify them more easily.  We solved some tough riddles about quadrilaterals and classified triangles according to sides and angles.  We're studying more geometry next week!

In reading, we continued our work with mythology by creating "tableaus" of famous Greek mythology allusions.  With a mix-it-up group, we silently and motionlessly depicted different allusions such as "Achilles's heel," "Pandora's Box," and "Trojan Horse."  We performed in the "Kennedy Amphitheater" (space outside our back door) and got to guess other groups' allusions.  We also continued to work on figurative language this week, reviewing similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, and hyperbole.  We created fun figurative language posters with teams and we'll use this knowledge to help us identify figurative language in our own reading next week!

In social studies, we continued our work with the United States by starting the final region - the American Southwest!  We've learned a bit about the landforms, famous national parks, bodies of water, and climate.  Each morning, Mrs. Adams puts up a mystery photo from the Southwest - it's a beautiful region!

We have been doing a morning meeting each day this week!  It's been a fun routine to start our day and greet one another in the mornings.  On Thursday, we worked together to create a dog out of our individual polygons and reviewed geometry terms!  On Friday, we made a "spider's web" of yarn and identified polygons as we "wove" the web.  We even did a MEGA MORNING MEETING with Room 21 one day!  We got to play "Museum" for our activity, which helped us get ready for our Greek mythology tableaus.

Check out these museum "statues!"

Kelli adds her polygon to the class "dog."

Woof!  Our class pet "Polly" the Polygon Pup!

Lots of polygons were created with our class spider web!

Next week holds lots of fun including tying our shirts for Tie Dye Tuesday!  Looking forward to another fun-filled and busy week next week!

What's coming up:

• We have end-of-year PARCC testing for math on Thursday & Friday (5/21 and 5/22).
• Please send in a white cotton t-shirt and hanger (see blue letter for details) by Thursday 5/21 for Tie Dye Tuesday!
• We would SO much appreciate volunteers for Tie Dye Tuesday (5/26) and for the Amazing Race (6/24).  Please see the orange letter for details and email Mrs. Adams if you are available.  We really do appreciate and need the help for these extra activities!  Thank you!