My fifth grade language arts enrichment group has spent a lot of time lately working on poetry. We have been both reading and writing poetry. They spent a lot of time before Christmas break creating their own unique poetry anthologies to give to their families as a holiday gift. Upon returning from Christmas break, I had them write a poem about themselves that used some of their math skills. Over break, I saw this idea on another teacher's blog, Mrs. Runde (just to give credit where it is due!) Each kid was given 100 percentage points to spend on themselves in terms of their own characteristics (both physical and internal.) We then worked on illustrating them by embedding excel spreadsheets and pie charts. You can see a couple of examples of their work here. It was a fun combination of technology, creativity, self-reflection, and poetry. They shared their work with each other today. I had fun teasing them, "Would your mom agree that you are 5% responsible, or would we have to break it down into tenths of percents?" But I'll admit, there was a lot of honesty too (like the 3% messy!)
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