In reading this week we talked about making text-to-self and text-to-text connections in poems.  We are still writing our poems as well.
    For math we are working on visualizing story problems.  This is the beginning of our work with bar models.  This link will take you to a copy of the story problem that we solved today: http://www.worksheetworks.com/pdf/6e1/1218280d47e/WorksheetWorks_Drainpipe_Dreams_2.pdf  This problem is a good example of math being much easier when we make a picture of the problem first.