Winter Solstice
Today we celebrate the first day of winter and the longest night of the year for the Northern Hemisphere, also known as the Winter Solstice. As our earth circles...
Happy New Year, 2020
Happy Holidays! “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” is a song written by John Lennon, released as a single in 1971 by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Plastic Ono...
Hour Of Code: Cargo-Bot
All next week students will be able to challenge their coding skills with the iPad App, Cargo-Bot! The key to learning to code is learning to think like a...
Dewey Decimal System Day
The Dewey Decimal System Day is observed every year on December 10th in honor of Melvil Dewey. December 10, 1851, is the birthday of Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) inventor of...
Kamishibai and TV Production
Over the next several days, the students in Ms. LaBrake’s TV Production course, will listen and learn about the traditional Kamishibai theater and storytelling. TV Production students will be...
Mindfulness Mandalas
Mandala is a Sanskrit word that loosely translates to mean “circle” or “center.” The word mandala is often associated with the circular designs that have repeating colors, shapes, and...
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee #DisruptText
Task: Is the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, an accurate representation of the south in the 1930s? Choose one of the following topics as the...
Throw Back to Then
Realtor, John Patrick Schutz writes “Harvesting of ice for storage purposes and meal enhancement at restaurants began commercially in the USA in 1805 and demand skyrocketed as modern convenience...
Media Bias Chart
Ad Fontes Media mission is to make news consumers smarter and news media better. This is a tall order, because there is a big problem in our news media...
Author’s Craft
Day Three: In a recent School Library Journal article, Holding History in My Hands: Authors, Illustrators and Artifacts by Daryl Grabarek, author Tonya Bolden shares how old newspapers, photographs,...