`Everyone Deserves Respect` by Grade 5

As mentioned in the earlier posts, Grade 5 students have been preparing `Anti Bullying` posters in their English Literature lessons. Today four of them were on the wall for you to check them out and support their cause.

Ms. Eda

Ainie`s Story

This is one of those homework assignments that truly amaze and inspire me. After choosing 9 random verbs from the board, students were asked write a short story about it over the weekend. This is what Ainie from 5B wrote.

(Click on the picture to enlarge)

Congratulations to Ainie for her great talent in writing and I hope she keeps up with her hard work.

Ms. Eda

Caricature in Literature

Last week, students of grade 5 were given an opportunity to show their creativity to their classmates and to the viewers of our blog. The assignment was to draw a caricature of Marv Hammerman based on only the descriptions given in The Eighteenth Emergency.

The outcome of the homework assignment was amazing, they truly came up with impressive drawings as I checked each and every one of them with amazement. And now I am sharing some of the very best ones among the pictures with you.

Enjoy!

Ms. Eda

Faina - 5B

Ainie - 5B

Inan - 5B

Aik Naseem - 5A

Leevan - 5B

Suma - 5A

Thanaal - 5A

Zaana - 5A

Zaya - 5B

Khyati - 5A

Anti Bullying Posters - The Eighteenth Emergency

In English Literature, as you know, we are reading and analyzing a novel called `The Eighteenth Emergency`. It`s about a small and weak boy called Benjie `Mouse` Fawley and his adventure in trying to run away from his bully Marv Hammerman.

Since this book chooses `bullying` as its main theme, we are doing a lot of anti-bullying related work, such as group discussions, posters and campaigns.

The first project we had was to prepare Anti-Bullying posters in groups. The students were given absolute freedom; from what kind of material they wanted to use in their posters to what they wanted to write on them.

Some groups decided to inform their readers about the reasons and consequences of bullying whereas some others started their own little `petition` to fight against bullying and stop it in their community.

Below, you will find pictures both of the students as they were preparing their posters and of some of the posters after they were completed.

We are currently displaying some of these posters on the blue wall near the front gate at school.

Ms. Eda

Math PPT

When English and Hobbies Meet!

One of our very talented students, Imaan from 5C, has a great hobby: she likes writing poems!

She already wrote her little own poetry book and shared it with us at school and now I am taking this opportunity to share one of her poems and book cover with the rest of Grade 5 students so that they can also enjoy reading her nice poems.

Also, if you have any hobbies that you would like to share with the rest of Grade 5 or with all of the students at Billabong, bring it to school and we`ll publish it on our blog.

Ms. Eda

Poetry with Grade 5

10 days ago, Grade 5 students started working on poetry and, as an introduction exercise to imagery, they were given the picture below and asked to write poems on what they see. In groups, they worked on this picture since the first poem they were going to read and analyze was Daffodils by William Wordsworth.

Daffodils

Here are some of the poems they have written in class (and decorated at home to display on our blog). 

5B - Aeka, Ainie, Azman & Miuvaan

5A - Thanaal, Zaana & Awus

5A - Kamilah, Lumaak & Aik A.R

5A - Suma, Khiyati & Hishma

5A - Senaya & Ann

5B - Leev, Inan, Faina, Ailam

 

5C - Naishan, Michael, Layaal

5C - Isha, Juman & Ibshar

5C - Esha, Ruby, Rayaan & Rabaah

5B - Ibha, Kiyan & Zaya

In addition to this activity, after analyzing the poem, students were introduced to drawing the rhyme scheme of a poem and figures of speech and spent two periods on this topic. They practiced their new skills on the poem Daffodils, found the rhyme scheme and figures of speech in it. Along the way, we used this presentation (click to view)  and listened to the poem from the link below.

After they finished working on the poem in class, students were assigned to write a summary of the poem and find the meanings of the following words at home for the weekend:

* wander      * gay
* float          * jocund
* host           * gaze
* stretch      * vacant
* margin      * pensive
* bay            * bliss
* glance       * solitude
* glee

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Today, February 3rd, 2013, students finished their second and last poem of the volume, The Sea by James Reeves, and they have been assigned to do vocabulary, rhyme scheme and figures of speech exercises as homework during this week. 

1. Find the meanings of these words:
    * shaggy              * clashing
    * gnaw                 * hollos
    * rumbling           * dune
    * tumbling           * reedy
    * moan                * scarcely
    * roar                  * bound
    * snuff                 * tune
    * sniff                 * greasy

2. Draw the rhyme scheme of the poem.

3. Find the alliterations in the poem.

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The poems we have studied during the first volume are as follows:

Daffodils by William Wordsworth

The Sea by James Reeves

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Last of all, you can find copies of both of the poems below.

Daffodils

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This is a brief summary of week 3 in English Language. There will more updates about English Language and Literature soon.

Ms. Eda