As part of Library day, students choose a book they would like to read from the library, and the following week respond to a variety of questions. This week students incorporated all types of questions they had encounter so far, and did Book Talks for their peers. ​

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
Using the quote by Leonardo da Vinci, we tapped into our own feelings to create pieces of art based off poetry we read. 

First we studied both abstract and real-life art pieces, and discussed the emotions and thoughts we experienced from different pieces. We explored how colour and shapes can elicit certain feelings and emotions, and how even abstract art can resemble real-life objects. 

Then we read two peices of poetry by Shel Silverstein; Colours and The Voice. Students visualized the poem while listening to them being read out loud. They then used coloured pastels to express the emotions felt from the poem. ​

Poet's Tree
Underneath the poet tree
Come and rest with awhile with me,
And watch the way the word-web weaves
Between the shady story leaves.
The branches of the poet tree
Reach from the mountains to the sea
So come and dream, or come and climb-
Just don't get hit by falling rhymes.

-Shel Silverstein

Students completed an observational report for their science fair. First we used our senses to describe air while we were in the classroom. We concluded that when we are inside, we can not see, hear, taste, feel, or smell air. When we went outside though we could see evidence of air through the wind. We could see the wind moving leaves and trees, we could feel the wind on our skin, we could smell emissions from cars, we could hear rustling leaves on the ground. We did decide that we still could not really taste air though. ​