We are continuing our work on poetry.  We learned about three types of poetry today.  Descriptive poems are the color poems we have been working on, and I also introduced narrative and concrete poems today.  We will be writing our own narrative and concrete poems to go along with our descriptive poems.  Hopefully by winter break we will have published books of poetry to share with you.
    We are going to take our subtraction with regrouping test on Friday.  Our next chapter is on bar models.  We will be starting that next week.  Bar models are a wonderful visualization to help us understand story problems.  They are especially handy with multi-step word problems.
    We are getting excited about seeing you at school during conference week!