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More Poetry!

8/9/2012

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Everyone (teachers included) really seems to be enjoying our poetry unit from Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends! Monday we red the poem "Ourchestra," about how you can still make music using your body parts even if you don't have expensive instruments. We found many different ways to make music with our bodies (clicking our teeth?) and also played with musical instruments we have here at school. In the afternoon, we thought about what we could do if we wanted to paint but didn't have a paintbrush... we could paint with our noses! Eventually we also included our fingers and hands. 


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Wednesday we read "The Crocodile's Toothache." It was about two silly things that don't go together- a crocodile and a dentist. Our craft was using marshmallows to make teeth in a mouth. We also made some very creative poems. Students chose two things that don't go together (a cricket and toothpaste??) and wrote a poem about it! We spent a lot of time laughing :)
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Whatever Floats your boat

8/2/2012

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Thursday we read Shel Silverstein's poem "Homemade Boat" and created our own homemade boats out of tinfoil. 
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After we made sure all of our boats would float, we tested them to see which was the strongest! One by one we counted how many house keys we could each put in our boats before it sank. The strongest boat held 31 keys! 
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Each day we have been reading poetry from Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends, we have also been creating our own poetry. Today our poem was called "Sometimes I Forget." Come check them out hanging on the classroom wall! We have some creative little poets in our class. 
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Magical Poetry

8/1/2012

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This week we are trying something new- a Preschool Poetry Unit! Today we read the first poem from A Light in the Attic  by Shel Silverstein, called "Magic." We talked about what we would do with magic if we had it (turn into a mermaid/princess, find a treasure chest, blow up the world, to name a few students' ideas). Then we used our mini magic wands (toothpicks) at snack to create magic swirls in our chocolate milk! 
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Here is a link to the poetry unit we are using if you are interested! 
Poetry Unit 
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