Thursday, September 1, 2011

Artistic Words

Poetry


This week our class will begin to look at different forms of poetry. Sometimes poetry grabs our attention because of the rhyme, other times we are attracted to a poem's vocabulary. Click here to look at a few poems that illustrate alternating rhyme patterns. Click here to read a poem that shows rich vocabulary.

Our students will study various forms of poetry and create some of their own works of art.

Language Arts

This week we are reviewing the parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The students spent some time making a word wall of adjectives. On the following adjective website you will find several examples by category.




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