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Identifying Character Traits

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This week we learned how to identify character traits, specifically focusing on a character’s internal feelings or personality traits. This also allowed us an opportunity to focus on identifying some of our own internal feelings.

 

 

How cute are these little 3D printable Emoji’s we used to help us identify emotions. The students loved them and now want their own set!

 

 

We also had our first JH Pep Rally and game and the 6th graders were able to attend their first every Pep Rally and show school spirit! Please continue to encourage your students to read at home for at least 30 minutes every night. I’m already seeing progress!

Ms. G.

Find Me

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I feel you in the morning sunshine,
in the breath of autumn's call.

I hear you in the ocean tide, 
the strumming beat of my rise and fall.

I see you in the Eastern sky 
and down in the deep's of canyon's low.

In the winds and the storms of my life,
you covered me with gentle snow.

I taste the dew of your forever love,
the sustaining grace to carry on.

Come touch my heart in the dark of night,
Unfreeze my passion gone.

You'll find me in the tulip gardens, 
or among the songs of the cypress trees.

I need your water -- bid me grow --
until then I'll be waiting here --- for me.

February's Poem from "A Year in Words"
Written by Amanda Griffith

Begin Anew

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Begin Anew

Begin anew with me and dance once again —
Along life’s narrow pathway around every brook and glen.

Begin anew with me and sing the night away —
Beneath the dimming star’s duet with the glowing moonlit rays.

Begin anew with me and laugh with joy’s delight —
Bounding with waves of glee that kiss goodbye numbness of the night.

Begin anew... begin fresh... and begin with no blemish to find
A clean slate, a steady pace, and a new state of mind.

The view is endless, the sky seamless, and the landscape barely grown
For you and I to leap, dance, and run fearlessly into the world yet unknown.
Over hill and though the valley on mountaintop we’ll soar —
In the valley we shall never tarry, but along the peaceful river’s shore.

There find rest and fill our cups to continue our present climb
For one day in life’s journey, the pending toll may take its time.
For our once happy, joyful song shall never come to a hopeless, lonely end
For as we continue along our pathway, there is always help to lend.

So — begin anew with me — dancing, singing, as we freely run.
Boundless leaps, endless songs into the daunting rays beneath the sun.


January's Poem from 'A Year in Words' Poem Series
Written by: Amanda Griffith

Sensory Poems

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A sensory poem describes a scene, an object, or an idea with vivid words that appeal to the five senses.

It tells how the subject looks, feels, smells, tastes, and sounds.

 

Pine Trees

Pine Trees are giants in my life.
Songs of the wind whistling wistfully fill my mind.
Aromas of the unmistakable smell of pine needles after a hard rain rise up.
Imagine the tiny yellow wildflowers tasting the morning dew.
Visions of tall silhouettes look like men dancing in the sky.
It feels like my childhood – rough, raw, and real.
Bare feet running down the gravel road.
Pine Trees are giants in my life.

By Amanda Griffith/2022

 

Little Authors – Acrostic Poems

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Pretty pumpkins resting

Under the moonlight.

Mom is a pumpkin and we are too!

Pie and Candy – mom named us…

Kind love to ALL my pumpkins

In the spooky night sky!

Never-ending love!

– Jaycee Demoss

 

Paint them.

Under the stars.

Making Pie.

Pretty Decorations.

Kids Painting.

Imagination.

National Festivities.

– Abagail Scarbrough

 

Piles of candy

Under the bed

Make for a delicious snack.

People

Know

It’s Halloween because

No one is without candy.

– Ethan Hobbs

 

Pumpkins here and pumpkins there…

Under a tree and at the fair.

Many are orange, some are not…

Pumpkin patches sure have a lot!!!

Keep them plain or carve a face…

I display mine on a book case.

Nibble on seeds, or bake a pie…

Some day I’ll look back with a sigh.

– Lilly L.

 

Pieces of candy wrappers

Under the bed

Make for bad cavities…

People said “no”, but I did it anyway.

Keep the wrappers in the trash can mom said, but

I put the wrappers under the bed

No, mom said, and I got grounded.

– Kaitlyn Blow

 

Peace on Earth

Unexpected

Moon

Parade

King Jack Pumpkin

I love the Holidays!

Noel

–  Kinzlee Clower

 

P is for 10 push ups.

U is for 10 up beats.

Massive!

P is for plank to position for 10 seconds.

K is for 10 Kit Kats.

I is for invent an exercise.

N is for do the Night Crawler!

 – Kylin Trammel

 

 

Writing Poetry

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An Acrostic Poem is a piece of writing in which a particular set of letters—typically the first letter of each line, word, or paragraph—spells out a word or phrase with special significance to the text.

Look for your student’s poems to be published on my blog in the upcoming weeks.

Peaceful Nights.

Under the stars.

Making Memories.

Pie, candy, and treats.

Kids Laughing.

Imagination.

Never-ending fun.

-Mrs. Griffith

Randy – photo by Heaton Photography