Wonderful, whimsical poetry...

Chosen especially for it's creative and fun imagery, this poem is written by fellow Canadian Dennis Lee. We all laughed as we read about this child sitting in a mud puddle! Enjoy.

The muddy puddle

I am sitting
In the middle
Of a rather Muddy
Puddle,
With my bottom
Full of bubbles
And my rubbers
Full of mud,

While my jacket
And my sweater
Go on slowly
Getting wetter
As I very
Slowly settle
To the Bottom
Of the Mud.

And I find that
What a person
With a puddle
Round his middle
Thinks of mostly
In the muddle
Is the Muddi-
Ness of Mud.

News for the Week of March 23-27

Welcome back, everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful spring break. From what I've heard many of you went on wonderful adventures around Richmond and even beyond! See our new bulleting board entitled "Postcards from Spring Break!" detailing the tales...

Our words for the week are:
Whole Class (all words are two syllables and end in 'ing')
clasping
gasping
thanking
masking
clashing
dashing
mashing
splashing
planting
tramping

Challenge Words (al contain 'er')
personal
filtering
understand
deliver
helicopter
everything
universal
sternly
publisher
deserving

Charlotte's Web

Today we started a new novel in class. Usually, Ms. Santiago and I will often read it aloud to the class, but sometimes we will ask the children to read on their own, and sometimes we will ask children to read aloud to the class. The story we have chosen is called "Charlotte's Web". It is a wonderful tale of friendship, love, and caring. There are parts that are happy and there are parts that are sad. Sometimes we will stop and write about the story, or draw pictures, or do projects that are based on the story. We will also be choosing difficult words from each chapter to use as new spelling and vocabulary words.
This week's words come from Chapter 1. In this chapter Fern saves a baby pig from being "done away with" by her father, who is a farmer and doesn't want to look after a small, weak piglet. Now Fern must care for the baby pig and help raise him.

runt
litter
weakling
wept
brook
pitcher
injustice
untimely
armed
promptly
specimen
stroke
woodshed
relieved
manure

Poem of the Week - test on Monday!

The Spring Wind

The wind can't move a tree,

but it can make leaves fall

sway branches

shake leaves

blow a nest down

topple acorns.

The wind can't empty a lake,

but it can freeze the water

move lilly pads

ripple the water

make waves.

The wind can't pull off my coat,

but it can ruffle my hair

blow off my hat

push me on my way

make me fall

blow my hair.

Poem of the week - test on Monday!