Seahorse

 By Macy and Lainey

                                                                                                                           

Dirty brown- coffee colors, 

curled tale, 

straw mouth. 

Star shaped eyes, 

little squares, really tiny black dots.   

Hollow and mute. 

Dry spiky body. 

Mouth feels scaly. 

Smells like rotten smelly sea food and stink bugs. 

Taste like sea water and crunchy sand. 

Now lying on a table in a box.


By Ginger and Ty'onte

Dirty brown coffee colors
on its body.
Curled tail.
Star shaped eyes.
A straw-like mouth.
Tiny black dots and
a pattern of
squares on its body.
Smells like stink
bugs
and sea food.
Hollow inside and
sometimes
mute.
Dry, spikey and light. Mouth
feels scaly. I imagine tasting
it,
crunchy sand and spikes,
salty seawater.
Now laying in
the middle of the
table letting
everybody see it. 

Puffer Fish

By Samantha and Mallory    

Spiky, 

rushing through the cold water.

Spinning all around to get to other fish.

Puffs when its scared.

Brown stripes to make his color spark.

Now lying on the back table of room 21.

Puffer Fish Belly

By Jamaine, Andy, and Max

Lying at the bottom of the sea.

Deep,

floating happily,

Washing up on shore dried out,

go to classroom, smelling like air,

dried out and stiff, 

and that's the rest of the puffer fish.

Small Poems

This week we've been reading "small poems" from a book called All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth. Small poems are unique because they're written about one object and they use only the necessary words to describe that object and tell its story...no unnecessary words!

After reading lots of small poems, we wrote down specific observations about this interesting starfish. Using our observations we then wrote our very own small poem called starfish. Check out our observations and the finished poem below.

starfish

by Miss Payne’s class

Walked,

Silver and sparkly,

Glinting through the bright sea.

The mute sound of the starfish moving,

Five bumps like popcorn kernels,

A sandcastle attaching to each leg.

Old,

Scaly underside,

Narrow and light brown like coffee stains.

Curled tips like feet,

Tapping along at the bottom of the ocean.

Now lying dead and dry in a classroom,

Smelling of old seafood.

How Much is 1,000?

Our class had a great  time making the 1,000 chart. We are so thrilled to have the chart in the class room. We had to color the chart different colors to make it first-class. Each different color represents a group of 100. Do you know how many groups of 100 you need to make 1,000? We found out you need ten. After we made our 1,000 chart we discovered pattern after pattern! Come in and check it out sometime if you'd like to see it. 

Our new 1,000 chart

Up close with 200