Outstanding Orchestra Audience!!!

Using Figurative Language

This week in Writing Workshop we are focusing on using "figurative language." This writing technique is used when you write poetry, stories, and even nonfiction.

One example is a "simile." A simile is a sentence that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as." A great simile that we could use is "My sister's newborn baby is as small as a peanut." How about a metaphor? A "metaphor" also compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as." For example: "I'm a devil when I get mad at my little brother."

 We are even focusing on "personification". Do you notice the word "person" in it? This helps us remember that this technique gives human qualities/characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas. For example: "The ball jumped into Jonah's hands!"   Finally, we are using hyperboles. A hyperbole is a form of extreme exaggeration. For example "I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse!!"

We have started using figurative language in our own writing and are noticing it a lot in our reading time too!!!!

Written by: Jonah, Cheyenne, and Livi.

Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra

On Wednesday, our class traveled to the Young People's Concert at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center. The performance was fantastic with art, acting, and music combined. First, the ballerina came out and jumped almost as high as the ceiling! Her name was Maddy Faust and she danced to a song called "Aragonaise" from Carmen. The orchestra included some of our favorite instruments such as tubas, clarinets, bassoons, and flutes. The conductor's name was Joan Landry. She was waving her baton like a tree in a hurricane. She also educated us about music and the arts. Then there was a singer named Tom Walsh and he sang "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha. His voice was very big and low. We thought it was so loud that he could be heard all the way from China!

Many of us enjoyed the performance including a song from Harry Potter that started off with three child actors doing the opening scene of the train station and heading to Hogwart's. We were surprised by their acting abilities because they were just about our age.

During some of the songs we saw pictures of both abstract and figurative artwork that young children had created. We like abstract art the best! The whole performance was inspiring because it seemed to have the common theme of "Believe in yourself, and you can do anything!!!"

Written by: Beau, Nick, and Averi.

Weekly Update

   This week was very busy. We had a test in ELA Common Core, it was not easy. On Friday we went over the ORQ ( Open Response Question) part of the  test because a lot of people had trouble with it. We learned how to go back to find details and examples to support our answers.
   In math we are learning about Whats my rule.Whats my rule is when you have an in and out table and have a rule that you follow. If it doesn't have a rule with it you have to figure it out with either +,-,x, or /.
   In science we're talking about food chains . A food chain shows decomposers, producers and consumers in an animal's habitat.If something goes wrong in the food chain like if a animal dies out then a lot of bad things would happen.
               By: Calia, Haley and Alex