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Math (Basic):
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Create your own Math worksheets
Math (Equations):
Extra practice with equations - create your own worksheet
Math (Boardgame):
Play Snakes and Ladders
Other Tools:
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If you have time:
Create Your Own School
This website is a great website to help us all create our own school. You can build the walls and make the school any type of school you want. Have fun!
Story Starter
Make your own crazy story. Make sure to spin the wheel and enjoy the game.
Read a Story or Play a Game
Clifford has lots of different games to play. Choose one or two . . . or more to play!
PARENT SECTION
Here is information we have used in class that may interest you.
Math Snakes and Ladders game played and presented on May 31st. Please see instructions in student's Math binders.
Poetry PowerPoint start date: January 11th and due date is May 31st
60 Marks
We are going to be learning about Poetry and how to make your very own PowerPoint!
By the end you will present a Poetry PowerPoint. Each poem will have a rough copy, however each good copy poem will need to be typed out in PowerPoint. Mrs. Woelders will teach you all you need to know about PowerPoint. It is your responsibility to manage your poems and complete them on time. Mrs. Woelders will be checking your rough and good copy poems the next Monday she is at school. If you have any questions or need help, please see Mrs. Woelders or Ms. Gooderham.
When you present your PowerPoint Poetry you will have:
□ Five poems that you have created. 10 marks for each poem and 10 marks for the presentation of the PowerPoint.
□ Each poem will have colour and at least one image.
□ Each poem will have a title. Do NOT name it by the style, for example: Acrostic.
□ Meet what the teacher wants for each poem
Checklist
You will need to complete the rough copy and typed out good copy in PowerPoint by the next Monday Mrs. Woelders teaches. Please note that there will be plenty of time on Mondays with the laptops.
January 11th
□ Talking about the Poetry PowerPoint, using the laptops and practicing writing poetry.
□ Create opening screens for Poetry PowerPoint.
January 25th
□ HAIKU (Marked on Snapshot and Style)
□ Work on Poem and Complete Good Copy of Poem
February 1st
□ ACROSTIC POEM (Marked on Snapshot and Meaning)
□ Work on Poem and Complete Good Copy of Poem
March 22nd
□ CINQUAIN (Marked on Snapshot and Form)
□ Work on Poem and Complete Good Copy of Poem
April 19th
□ FIVE SENSE POEM (Marked on Snapshot and Conventions)
□ Work on Poem and Complete Good Copy of Poem
May 3rd
□ Alliteration Poem (Marked on Snapshot and Conventions)
□ Work on Poem and Complete Good Copy of Poem
May 17th
□ Put finishing touches (new images, colour, borders etc.) on PowerPoint Poetry
May 31st
Hand in a printed version to Mrs. Woelders and present your Poetry PowerPoint to the class. Details of presentation will come later.
1. HAIKU
This kind of poem comes from Japan. It must have three lines with seventeen syllables. It describes a fleeting (something that doesn’t last very long) moment in nature. It is like a snapshot of something beautiful in nature. It should capture nature. Choose an element of nature that changes with the seasons, such as the sky, a tree, a flower, or a river. Write a Haiku poem based on that element of nature.
Examples –
Line 1 has 5 syllables A Caterpillar Moonlight shines brightly
Line 2 has 7 syllables Tiptoes ever so slowly Mirroring the silver pond
Line 3 has 5 syllables Up the pine tree’s branch Dawn silently springs
2. ACROSTIC POEM
An acrostic is a piece of poetry or prose in which sets of letters taken in order form a word or phrase. An acrostic poem is a short verse in which each letter of the title is used as the initial letter for one line. In a poem of this kind, the lines need not rhyme. On the lines below, write an acrostic poem about a favourite hobby, sport or pastime.
Examples:
Swimming Piano
Splashing Practice! Practice! Practice!
Water It’s all my mother says
In As if more pounding will help the
My Notes make sense,
Mouth Or turn the noise into music
Is
No . . .
Gulp . . . fun!
3. CINQUAIN
The Cinquain is not of Japanese origin. It consists of 5 lines.
LINE 1 2 syllables Squirrels
LINE 2 4 syllables deftly scampers
LINE 3 6 syllables up our big white Birch tree
LINE 4 8 syllables to hide his brown acorn treats
LINE 5 2 syllables from me.
4. FIVE SENSE POEMS
Describe an emotion by using your senses. First give the emotion a color (sight). Then tell how it sounds, feels, smells and tastes.
EXAMPLES
Loneliness Success
Loneliness is gray Success is red
It sounds like a vacant room It sounds like claps and cheers
It feels like a toothache It feels like a pat on the back
It smells like an empty house It smells like flowers in the spring
It tastes like liver It tastes like champagne
5. Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of a sound within a word, line, or phrase. A familiar use of this device is in tongue twisters and nursery rhymes. For example, in the line: She sells seashells down by the seashore, the s is repeated; and in the line Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, the p is repeated. Poets often use alliteration to add humor to their poetry or to create special effects.
Write an alliterative phrase that follows the pattern in the example below.
French Fishermen Frolic
Five
French
Fishermen
Found
Four
Frisky
Frogs
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