Health and Career Education

The grade 4's have been learning about the damage smoking can cause this term. As a wind-up, they created comics using the Make Beliefs Comix comic generator. Here's one created by a student:

If you can, take some time to talk about smoking with your fourth grader today. I'm hoping you'll be impressed with how much information they have.

May Poetry

This week our class completed our poetry oral presentations. All the presentations were on really great poems.

ZL's favorite presentation was the one done on the Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein.

By ZL and RK

The students were hard at work this week completing their poetry assignments, including their oral presentations which will be posted to the poetry website early next week. Please check back here for the link. 

In the meantime, you might want to have your child read to you one of the following poems:

Address to a Child on a Boisterous Winter Evening

Instructions

(If you click play to the right, a video of Neil Gaiman reading the poem will play.)

We've spent a lot of time discussing the meaning of each poem and making connections to each stanza. Please ask your child to explain one connection he or she has to a line or stanza from either poem. 

Finally, just for fun, here's a video of the Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein.