Many classes have launched book clubs. Below you will find some information about these exciting clubs!

Today is Cottage Lane’s Earth Day. Watch the video by Vienna, a 5th grader at CLE.

Enjoy your day at Tallman. There is so much to learn from the world around us. You will visit centers where experts will help you connect to our Earth. Post something new that you learned from Cottage Lane’s Earth Day at Tallman Park.

Wikipedia defines loyalty as a faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause. Loyalty is a word thrown around often in sports today. What does it mean for a player to have loyalty? Is it just about never leaving one team for higher pay for another one? Is it about showing up and doing the right thing for the fans? Loyal players build character and also makes a franchise stronger. As we celebrate the spring season with baseball/softball day, some famous baseball players who come to mind are Bob Feller, Cal Ripken Jr., Derek Jeter, Billy Martin, and Jackie Robinson.

To select a loyal football player, George Gipp would be top on the list. George Gipp was a regular person with outstanding athletic talent. He attended the Univeristy of Notre Dame on a baseball scholarship.  After goofing around with a football, the assistant football coach, Knute Rockne, noticed and recruited him to the football team. Fans went wild for Gipp, and he never let them down. Read Kathy-jo Wargin's Win one for the Gipper: America's Footfall Hero and develop a greater appreciation for the saying "Win One for the Gipper."

What did you learn from George Gipp?  How will you use the phrase, "Win one for the Gipper" some day?

The Sonnet Man is coming to Cottage Lane. Find out more about Devon Glover and his loyalty to his family and community.

What is a Sonnet? A sonnet is a type of poem. This special poem contains fourteen lines and typically has ten syllables per line. 

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

The speaker of the poem believes this poem keeps living as long as humans keep breathing? Do you agree? Explain.

Check out this preview of our upcoming assembly on the 21st!

Meet five people living in Dutch New-York and hear more about their daily life. You’ll practice your history detective skills and test your knowledge afterwards in this game you can play on your own or with your class at school. Click on the image below for Dutch New York: Learn their Stories!

Take a walk down Manhattan’s Stone street in 1660, look inside homes, gardens taverns and meet people on the street in the video above! The video is a preview of NAHC’s Virtual New Amsterdam Project (VNAP), a 3D recreation of New Amsterdam in Google Earth.

For additional information, visit the New Amsterdam History Center.

Write a comment about something new that you learned.

The Bronx Zoo was a great day for learning. Let's keep learning with these online activities.

Spot the Difference – Conservation biologists use camera trap photographs to count jaguars in the wild. 

Ecology IQ – Review basic ecology terms in this activity. 

Wolf Calls – See if a moose can tell if a wolf is a predator by playing wolf calls to two different moose populations.

Camel Adaptations – Check out all of the cool traits camels have to help them survive in the desert.

Post your favorite memory from our trip and an interesting fact you learned.

Today is Caps for Kids day. Caps For Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to giving autographed hats to children who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments, read more… Your thoughtfulness brings joy to others which in turn makes you happy.  Understanding how lucky you are is an example we can learn from Lou Gehrig.

Throughout eight years of grade school, Lou Gehrig never missed a single day. During fourteen years as a first baseman for the New York Yankees, he didn't miss a single game. Lou Gehrig's stamina earned him the nickname Iron Horse and helped him set what was then a world record – 2130 consecutive games. Read more of his life at Bio.com.