Gummy Bears may be small but they can represent some big words. Your job is to select a social studies vocabulary term and use this candy to create a model of the word. Some terms you might consider: urban, longitude, citizenship, immigration, colonization, etc. Make a diorama of a social studies vocabulary word. (Please do… Read More Gummy Bear Challenge
Dear Students,Teachers and Parents, Scrabble Day is observed on April 13, 2016. It celebrates the popular board game on the birthday of it’s inventor, Alfred Mosher Butts. Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a gameboard marked with a 15Ă15 grid.… Read More Scrabble Day
Calling ALL poetry!! Inspired by the recent trend of McDonalds, William O. Schaefer students will be sharing and distributing their poetry to Tappan Zee High School students who buy lunch! McDonaldâs, had the brilliant idea of putting a book instead of a toy in their Happy Meals. McDonaldâs included four different books in this experiment. When I heard McDonalds was promoting literacy… Read More Poetry
The âTower of Booksâ Library Challenge began January 25, 2016 and ended Friday, March 18, 2016. Second grade classes were challenged to collectively read 100 books from predetermined categories, first grade, 80 books and kindergarten, 60 books. Many classes  met the âTower of Booksâ Challenge with the required number of categories and books while other exceeded the challenge! Congratulations!… Read More Tower of Books Data
Second grade classes will gain a better understanding of balance and motion as they explore the function and form of levers together with the work of Alex Calder. Viewing mobiles created by sculptor Alexander Calder, students will learn about mobiles and experiment with balancing levers and equilibrium. Students will then design and create a simplified 3D printed piece using Tinkercad.… Read More Balance and Motion Connect to Art
Are you a smart shopper? Near my local town in New Jersey, there are three supermarkets, Stop and Shop, A & P and Fairway Markets. This week they each have special deals on certain products. If you bought all the items on my grocery list in one store, which store would be the cheapest? Would you… Read More Would You Rather?
An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole. In other words, idioms are word combinations that have a different meaning than the actual meaning of each individual word. For example, “It’s raining cats and dogs”. This statement really means, “It’s… Read More Something to Crow About: Idioms
In American history the original thirteen colonies were struggling to free themselves from the rule of the British monarch. The thirteen states were the beginning of the United States of America. Representatives of the thirteen colonies got together to create the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of the United States is the framework for the… Read More iDebate