Tales Of A 4-5 Something

By Duncan and Georges Q: Why didn’t the kid go outside? A: ‘cause he didn’t want to. Did you hear the pizza joke? It was too cheesy anyway. Did you hear the construction joke? I’m still working on it. Did you hear the egg joke? It will crack you up! I heard a rumor about butter. But I decided not to spread it. Patient: I’ve been forgetting stuff lately and it keeps getting worse and worse. Doctor: I know it’s an illness, but you haven’t given me the 800$ that you owe me. Q: Why did the reindeer cross the road? A: because he was tied to a chicken! Velcros are just a big rip-off. One pen said to another: you are INKcredible. I was trying to catch some fog last night but I mist. Notice on a shoe repair shop: “I’ll heel you and I will save your sole.” Why is the math book so sad? He had too many problems. How do you organize a fantastic space party? You planet! What is an astronauts favorite time? Launch time! What do y...

Snow is really fun to play in. Lots of people like to build snowmen, snow forts and have snowball fights. It is too bad that lots of of snow has melted. Our playgrounds have lot os ice and the ice is extra slippery. It makes it hard to play games like football but it makes sliding on our knees fun. The remaining snow is really cold. Yacob and Elizabeth 

In January we started a poetry unit. We are learning many different types of poetry and lots of tools writers use. Some of the different types of poetry we have written are I Am poems, comparison poems and food memoir poems to go with our food memoirs from the fall. We really liked this poetry unit. Diego and Mercy Here are some food memoir poems you can read: Pizza Making Pizza Poem Little Donuts Pie Pie and Cookies Apples

Have you ever thought how strange it is that there are phrases that make no sense? For example I love you to the moon and back. You can’t actually love someone to a place! We gathered a list of idioms and are going to illustrate them. -by Maya

peaceful silence softly sparking snow in the sun peaceful silence glinting snowflake cape covers the land peaceful silence soft crystal aqua sky, no clouds in sight peaceful silence regal trees bow down to meet an old friend -Ginger Photo from Pexels The tree illuminates the dark morning background Coated in ice Grasping the snow A dream catcher of frost Crystal bangle hang from it’s limbs The children sleep not knowing of the wonder outside Illuminating the dark morning background -Fenugreek Photo from Pexels

Funny things in 4-5 By Luke ,Elliott & Noah Lunch, the most random time of the day:           At lunch strange things start to happen… such as, people start singing, they try to steal Luke's food, Nui (our class fish) starts bubbling, and students start disappearing to other homestations. Then all of a sudden it is over, and recess starts up. The basketball hoops:             Instead of getting mini nerf basketballs for the hoops in 4-5, people started using the stuffed animals in Kai’s homestation. In the morning you can usually see 4-5ers throwing stuffed animals at the hoop (they rarely make it in.) The mysterious holy cross of Nancy’s homestation:       It is projected on Wednesdays at around 9 o'clock when the blinds are open. It projects on the couch and wall and it is mysterious to us.The cross is a symbol...

In writing workshop we are studying poetry. We are writing poems about snow and winter. We are learning how to use descriptive language, rhythm and rhyme. Our study of winter is triggered by the snow falling outside. In writing workshop we also study units like alliteration, food memories and myths. Here are some of the poems by Lily J.   storm skirts Silver hands clasped the earth, a chill settled, t‘was snow’s birth. Pale fingers slithered through brush frost was forming, all the world hushed. Then, slowly, slowly, out of the air, calmly, quietly, it seemed nothing there, But the stars in the ink-black sky. now gleaming in moonlight, a flake did fly, And the storm started. the wind whipped, the trees parted. Whistling, gliding, fast and fleet, twirling and sliding. That frosty, brisk night, snow steadily mounting, fluffy and white. Cracking branches, feeling free, out whiting the birds, swirling,...

In 4-5 we have themes and we are studying Ethiopia. Each class for themes has a different topics on Ethiopia. Nancy's class is coil basket making and we are getting to make them and we get to choose our colors of raffia. The materials we use are cotton rope and raffia. Linda's class is about people and culture, we get to pick a topic in that range. Tim’s class is about coffee imports and exports, we are learning the process of “making a cup of coffee” and Kai’s class is about the geography of Ethiopia, they all are really fun!!

In Spanish class we learned about el Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead which is a Mexican holiday to honor your loved ones that have passed away. So to celebrate in Spanish class we made ofrendas/altars, we had to make up a person and their profession. On the first week we brainstormed attributes and our person’s profession, then we started mildly talking about what each of the people in our group would bring in. Then about a week later we started making paper flowers to decorate the ofrenda. The day after Kirby graciously brought in 16 large corn stalks for all the groups to use. The day before, we showed off our ofrendas. We wrapped the flowers around the bent cornstalk and for our flower arch. The arch was supposed to symbolize the gateway from the the mortal world to heaven, the path the spirits take to get here. Finally the day had come when we would show our creations at a sort of gallery walkthrough where parents, teachers, and other kids would come to see our ofre...

We started poetry in WW. We talked about what poetry is and that it can be a lot of forms. Tim asked us to write about winter and cold and snow and we did. Have you read Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost or Cold Morning by Eamon Grennan? Then we went outside and used our writer's eye. Then we wrote about the cols and winter again. The second poem was better because we were focused. We looked at the lines we wrote and picked out our favorite one brought them to the circle. We read ur lines out loud and moved them around so we could create a class poem. It was fun. We each had our own line from our own poem and we made it one big poem. When you use words our lines from other things to make a new poem it is called Found Poetry. It is fun but sometimes it is not smooth. Here are our found poems: Tumeric                                              ...

This Wednesday 4-5 and their buddies went to the fore river fields to play in the snow. Some people played and jumped off of a snow mound and some played in the field. It was fun to burry peoples legs in the snow and build forts. We all had a great time spending time with our buddies and playing games. By Noa and Elefe