Responsibility is being accountable for your own actions. Assembly Read Aloud: What If Everybody Did That? by Ellen Javernick Additional Suggested Titles: I Just Forgot by Mercer Mayer The Way I Act by Steve Metzger Lucy Goosey Takes Responsibility by Katherine Ciriello Clark The Worst Day of my Life Ever! by Julia Cook and Kelsey… Read More November Word of the Month: Responsibility
Day One: Just like a community has rules and laws so does the digital world. Using the internet is a privilege. It is important that you learn how to live in the digital world of internet websites, copy-righted images, and virtual friends. Log onto Brain Pop and watch the video titled “Digital Etiquette.” username: woschaefer password:brianpop Choose one video from… Read More Online Citizenship
Today in library students used several resources such as labels to indicate the last name of the author, guide words to help them find the titles they were looking for, the nonfiction chart to help guide them to their favorite topics and special interest book spine labels to help them find those spooky Halloween books! One… Read More Navigation
Rebus rhymes and stories that use pictures instead of words throughout the story and rhyme. Some rebus stories have the picture and the word while others have only the picture. This can make reading fun and entertaining! Below is an example of a rebus: There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don’t know why… Read More Rebus Story
Students can now access BrainPOP ESL, BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr. and BrainPOP Español at school or at home, 24 hours a day! Log in with the following username and password: Username: woschaefer Password: brainpop Log in with the username and password provided above and watch the BrainPop video titled, How do I know a book is “Just Right”… Read More A Just Right Book
Formal debates can be a powerful teaching and learning tool which allow a class to consider a controversial issue within your curriculum and analyze it in depth. Debates can make a refreshing distraction from traditional essay writing. Debates are an active way to engage and immerse students in a specific topic as well as reinforce… Read More Debate: How to build an argument
In the picture book, The Day the Crayons Quit written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, Duncan opens his box of crayons and finds the box empty! In place of the crayons are a bundle of letters from the box’s occupants. Each letter is addressed to Duncan and outlines why the color abandoned… Read More The Days the Crayons Quit