Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Shape Poems!


Today, you will work on Shape Poems using the ReadWriteThink website:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/theme_poems/

When you sign in, you will see a screen that looks like this:

And you will be able to select from five themes:


With lots of options:
You can brainstorm excellent salsa words to use in your poem...


Then write them in the shape!


Have fun!


Friday, May 3, 2013

Poetry and Typing


Today, if you have poetry to type, I would like you to spend the period working on typing your poetry.

If you do not have poetry to type, I would like you to spend some time working on your keyboarding :)


You may do BBC Dancemat Typing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

or Type to Learn!

(which is on your desktop)

our  password is htstype
our account code is 100092

Happy Typing!

Mrs. Morell

You may also try

Typer Shark:

http://kids.aol.com/games/typer-shark/

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Acrostic and Diamante Poems


Today we will use the links on the ReadWriteThink website to create:

Diamante Poems:

and

Acrostic Poems
 

Be sure to have a teacher approve your work before you print!

Mrs. Morell