Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning To You!  Good Morning, Good Morning And How Do You Do?

The Day Of The Week is Tuesday!   The Day Of The Week Is Tuesday!  The Day Of The Week Is Tuesday!  The Date Is Number 28!

We haven’t been able to sing that song in some time now.  Where has the month of April gone?  We are down to the final 3 days of April and then we open up into the new month of May.  Thank you for all the assignments you handed in last week.  I have added a Spring Acrostic Page to the blog.  As I am still learning, I do not know why the poems decide to present themselves in unusual ways on the blog.  They dance across the page in a way that I do not publish them in.  They must be feeling the rhythm.

This week we are going to review some of the reading passages from ReadWorks.  We are going to take another quick look at Fractions and turn our Word Collector brains into Word Detectives with a final few spring poems to end off the month.

There are also new ways to approach your learning when you access the Shape of the Week page.  There will be poem titles to hover over in order to download the activities and the fraction math questions will be on a fillable answer sheet that you can submit.

Today is Talk About It Tuesday and I would like to talk about my Sunday journey to REDWOOD PARK, in South Surrey.  Let’s pretend we are on a field trip.  The park was home to twin brothers, Peter and David Brown.  In 1893, (how many years ago is that?) their father gifted them the large plot of land so that they could log and farm the area.

However, the brothers didn’t want to destroy the beauty of the forested area and instead filled the vast space with their favourite trees from all around the world. There are many exotic trees in the park.  I believe there are at least 32 different species of trees including the tall Redwood trees.  The brothers were committed to their forest and even built a tree house to live in.  A replica of the tree house is in the park.                                                                                                                                                             

This is what the sign, at the entrance to the park trails, shares – Prayer Of The Woods: I am the heat of your hearth on the cold winter nights, the friendly shade screening you from the summer sun and my fruits are refreshing draughts, quenching your thirst as you journey on. I am the beam that holds your house. The board of your table, the bed which you lie, and the timber that builds your boat. I am the handle of your tools, the door of your home. I am the bread of kindness and the flower of beauty.  Those who pass by, hear my prayer and harm me not.

 

One of the most unique parts of the park are the whimsical fairy houses.  Hidden away in the middle of the forest is a wonderland of fairy homes.  They hang from branches, sit on nursing logs and drape the roots of fallen trees.   Maybe you can draw or create your own fairy home.  Perhaps, you have your own fairy land right in your back yard.  Use your imagination and think about the possibilities.   Enjoy  your  day!  Mrs.E.