Poetry Unit

We are one week into our poetry unit with guest teacher Rebecca. Students have been writing beautiful poems using various forms and literary styles. Ask your student to share a poem with you. The following poem uses personification.

Chair
The chair feels tired holding up people all day.
He just wants a break.
All day long he thinks, ‘Please don’t sit on me.’
When people do sit on him
He feels that his space has been violated,
That his bubble has been popped,
His aura is no more.
He feels sad when sat on,
Like not only his dreams,
But he,
Himself, has been crushed.
...Chair
-Joseph Reiber

Earth Week

Next week is Earth Week at school. The fifth grade will be working on Sunnyside’s application for premier status as a an Oregon Green School. Students will be working in sustainability teams to assess the school’s waste production, consumption of materials/resources, energy and water usage, and recycling efforts. After a large school waste audit, the students will be submitting the application with a waste reduction plan they will be helping to implement. In addition to the Green School project, we will be using solar ovens with our kindergarten buddies and participating in...
Earth Day Spirit Week:
Monday: Wear Recycled Clothing
Tuesday: Earth Day Type Shirts
Wednesday: Wear green!
Thursday: Animal hats/animal make up
Friday: Flower power

Alexis's Favorite Writing Project

 In class, one of the writing assignments was to write whatever we wanted, but we couldn’t have a teachers help. I wrote a fictional story named Lola. I had a wonderful time writing it. My favorite part about writing it was having other people read it and write comments on the back of it. Sarah is an inspiration because she is very patient.  When you don’t understand what she is saying, she chooses a different way to help you learn. Even though she couldn’t help me with Lola, she gave me ideas without talking with me.   

     The way I got my idea was starting out with writing a different story, but the rule was we could only write 4 pages, so I twisted my story around and made a silly story with the help of my friends. Sarah inspired me by telling silly stories about her cat, so that’s one way I got the idea to write about Bazunka, Lola’s cat.      

       Bazunka is very crazy. His hiding place is the microwave, and in my story I wrote about Lola accidentally closing the microwave, thinking that he was food, and turning it on. Bazunka was all right, luckily. I enjoyed writing a story about Lola, and I hope we can do another assignment like this in class!

Alexis

Jordan's Thoughts on the Invention Convention

At Sunnyside every year in May we have a science convention, and as  fifth graders we are required to do it. For my project I am doing a car that runs on compost because your project has to help the earth. Some people are doing partner projects, it is really fun to see every ones projects. But there are some challenges to doing these  projects because, first you have to come up with a project and then make sure that it helps the earth. Also probably a hard thing for me is explaining how it works without making it confusing, some people actually try and make it work which sounds really hard but fun, I only made one of my projects work and it was difficult. This year I will just do a clay model though because you can just make a clay model if you want. I can’t wait till I get to see every ones projects.