Monday, August 21, 2023

Telling Fibs in Room 205

Fibonacci, a mathematician who lived during the 1200s, developed a number sequence named after him. Each number is added to the previous number to get the next number: 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 and so on. 


Author Greg Pincus invented the “Fib” form of poetry, in which each consecutive line has the same number of syllables that appear in the Fibonacci sequence. We wrote some together to practice. For example: 


Forest Walk

Trees,
snails,
tree stump,
ant, anthill,
bugs, apple trees, squir-
rels, mushrooms, bees, hornets, snakes,
beehive. We are at a forest right now. Plants, leaves, flies.


Then the students wrote their own. Here are some of their creations:


Vroom!

Vroom!

Race cats!

That's the sound!

Let's go race the cars!

Start your engines ... 1 2 3 GO!

- A.M.



The

bird

is on

a big hat

on a man's bald head

in the sunny sun on the bench.

- F.P.



I

hate 

mushrooms

so darn much!

Do you hate them too?

Because they just taste so darn bad.

- A.A.



I

love

reading

at night to

my sister. She loves

me reading to her. Does yours too?

- L.S.



love

summer

because it's

sun and relaxing.

You can go to vacation, yay!

- A.I.



School

is

out now

scream and shout!

Because it's summer!

Time to go to the beach and splash.

- A.M.



Do

you

like to

play board games?

Do you like chicken?

Do you like to play chicken wheel?

- A.J.



books

books

reading

time homework

math time kind of fun ...

Yay! It's television time.

- K.L.



Ball

is 

awesome

because I

am so good at it,

and is so cool because of stats.

- R.C.



my

cat 

is black

and vicious

but I love him and

he is so cute but he annoys

- L.A.



love

to read

so much. Do 

you? I love reading

graphic novels and it's fun, right?

- A.A. 



work

hard

to reach

your final

score on your math grades

so you can find out what you got

- F.P.



tick

tick

tock croc

run away!

right away or else

you will get eaten right now.

- C.M.



Help!

Help! 

Monster!

Under bed!

Get rid of it now!

Monster in the closet too now!

- A.M.

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