Monday, February 11, 2013

Weekly Poem - Magic Carpet

Magic Carpet
by: Shel Silverstein

You have a magic carpet
That will whiz you through the air,
To Spain or Maine or Africa
If you just tell it where. 
So will you let it take you
Where you've never been before,
Or will you buy some drapes to match
And use it
On your 
Floor?

Monday, February 4, 2013

What do you know about DECIMALS?

Today, we started our investigation of decimals. In a 4th grade paragraph, write what you already know about decimals, what you learned about decimals today, questions that you have about decimals. Feel free to  respond to your classmates paragraphs, but be sure that you are using 4th grade classroom language. 

Weekly Poem - I Love the Look of Words

I Love the Look of Words
by: Maya Angelou 


Popcorn leaps, popping from the floor
of a hot black skillet
and into my mouth.
Black words leap,
snapping from the white
page. Rushing into my eyes. Sliding
into my brain which gobbles them
the way my tongue and teeth
chomp the buttered popcorn.

When I have stopped reading,
ideas from the words stay stuck
in my mind, like the sweet
smell of butter perfuming my
fingers long after the popcorn
is finished.
I love the book and the look of words
the weight of ideas that popped into my mind
I love the tracks
of new thinking in my mind.