4A Valentine's Day!

Today our class celebrated Valentine’s Day by separating our tables and creating our own "Valentown"!  Each set of tables or neighborhoods got to create their own name for their neighborhood.  Then each house in the neighborhood got to select an address and some people even wrote their addresses and neighborhood names on a sheet of paper to let everyone know! 

One of the neighorhoods is "Booklandia Lane".

One of the activities we did was to send a valentine to teachers in our building.  Each neighborhood got to decide on two teachers or staff.  We sent one to our custodian, our nurse, our librarian, our principal, our music teacher and we even sent one for the library.

Then we read a book called I Haiku You written by BetsySnyder.  It is a poetry book that isfilled with a type of poetry called a Haiku. A haiku is a piece that is three lines long. The first line is five syllables long. The second is seven syllables long, and the third is the same as the first.  We loved the book and then we got to create our own Haiku for each neighborhood!  The Haikus were Valentine-themed and were great!

Here's two of them:

 

 

We even used the 4 C’s of ourschool: communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking! It was a great experience for our class, and we had fun too!

 Did you write any poetry on Valentine's Day?

From Mrs. Alaniz:
I had to share this awesome Yoda valentine I received from one of my students. Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day! (Also, the idea for Valentown is not my own! It came from a wonderful teacher somewhere who shared it and I adapted it!)