Rhyming and playing with words!

April is National Poetry Month and our bookreports will of course be about poems.
Everyone is reading a poetry book and then they will present one of the poems to the class. We'll tell you more about that once it's done. We are also working with poetry in class. We've been listening to various poems and have been practicing different ways of writing them.

Here are some pictures of when we were writing Couplets.

Nouns and Adjectives!

We are working on our language skills.

Yesterday and today we practiced nouns and adjectives.

Every student got two cards - an adjective and a noun, then we put them together to make phrases.

Fun activity, and a lot of learning going on!

Native American Tribes!

Wednesday the students presented their group works on Native American Tribes. We started this project when we were at the park in October. There we made a lot of hands on-activities about Native Americans and some of these things we've had on display outside the school office.

Back at school the groups started their research work about four different tribes.

The tribes were: Lenape, Erie, Algonquin and Iroqois.

They had to find out about the kinds of food they ate, what clothes they wore, what kind of transportation they used and how they lived. Some of them also found out about certain games they played. For the presentation they made costumes and other props to show the audience what they learned.

We learned a lot about the tribes and all the groups did great presentations.

Here are some pictures of some of the things we have made during this project!

Ceremonial Rattles

Mosaics

Weaving

God's Eyes'

Our display in the hall.

Weavings, rattles, God's Eyes', pottery, mosaics on display.

For the presentations some of the students made specific props for their tribe.

A Lenape necklace in purple and white, originally made of shells, but here made of small beads.

And a long house from the Iroqouis.

Pretty nice work, isn't it?