AREA, PERIMETER, VOLUME Gardens and fences and new tile floors, towers of blocks and a bulletin board border. Perimeter says "RI...

Let's sum it up: I cannot add. Finding a difference drives me mad. I hate remainders and it's true, Multiplication makes me blue. T...

  This Friday we will be wrapping up our writing unit in Poetry.  I am so proud of the work our writers have accomplished in poetry!  You ca...

I Don't Know What to do Today by Kenn Nesbitt I don't know what to do today. Perhaps I'll go outside and play, or stay indoor...

  Our readers have been very busy this week reading many different types of poems.  We decided that it would be fun to put poems where other...

Weeds by Ralph Fletcher Weeds in the sunlight, swaying in the breeze. Weeds pollinated by hordes of hungry bees. Weeds softly whisper...

The Canary     ~Elizabeth Turner   Mary had a little bird, With feathers bright and yellow, Slender legs-upon my word, He was a prett...

Crane by  David Yezzi Paper creased is with a touch made less by half, reduced as much again by a second fold—so the wish to pres...

Poetry Friday: Your Day Today Have a ____ Day by Lou Lipsitz Have a nice day. Have a memorable day. Have (however unlike...

In Reading yesterday we are launching into a unit on Poetry and Plays. During the next few weeks we will spend time reading poetry and discu...

Be sure to go HERE and check out giggle poetry.  You can read and rate poems, both by poets and students, read poems about Teachers and Pri...