6th Six Weeks

Week 3

 May 2-6, 2016

MONDAY,May 2

* Start STAAR reading passages

* Motion poem

TUESDAY, May 3

* STAAR reading passages

* Motion poem

WEDNESDAY, May 4

*STAAR reading passages

* Motion poem

 THURSDAY, May 5

* STAAR reading passages

* Free verse

FRIDAY, May 6

* STAAR reading passages

* Free verse

MOTION POEM

NOTE:

Presentations will start on Thursday, MAY 12th, after the STAAR tests.

FREE VERSE

Pennies

In a time of

credit cards, e-bucks, checks, and coupons,

we need the copper colored cent like we need memories

to keep us balanced

and remind of where we came from and

 who we are,

Pennies to pick up –

honest side up –

to remind us of the good that’s in the world.

Pennies to jingle in our

pockets after buying fireworks,

and to spend Thursdays wrapping in paper rolls

while Dad talks about his school years.

For filling that first

ceramic bank and collecting

over weeks to buy gum from the corner store

next to the grandparents’ house.

We need them to teach the cousins

how to count and to be the stencil head

of all the stick drawings.

We need pennies like we need pictures.

Something to hold on to

while we go back.

Something to never forget

and a reason to never want to.