Kindergarten students will begin work in the science lab with Mrs. Levine exploring the science unit, The Materials in Our World. The unit will provide opportunities for students to observe and compare the properties of a variety of kinds of wood, paper, fabric, and earth materials. Hands-on activities allowed students to discover what happens when they… Read More Bridge Support
What is a periodical? Anything that is published at regular intervals throughout the year such as a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A newspaper is a collection of articles about current events usually published daily. It is a great source for local information. Look at the front page of any newspaper. Find nine(9) words that start… Read More Periodical: Newspaper
Second grade students are currently studying poetry! This week we will read poetry and create blackout poems. Creating a blackout poem is like doing a reverse word search! What you do is read your article, but in a different way than before. You start to notice individual words that when pieced together with other words on the… Read More Blackout Poetry
The Birth of Book Spine Poetry. Well, Book Spine Poetry is an internet meme that goes back to the work of artist Nina Katchadourian. In the early 1990’s, she took photographs of stacked book titles that, when read together, created short sentences and stories. To support the poetry unit in the classroom, second grade students… Read More Poetry: Book Spine Style
September 13, 2016 marked 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl, the world’s number one storyteller. Books written by Roald Dahl include James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! In Dahl’s book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory is a… Read More Willy Wonka Challenge
This week in library, second grade students explored the world of programming with an iPad app called Cargo-Bot! Cargo-Bot is a puzzler designed to teach kids about programming. The concept is simple –tell a robot arm how to move colored boxes around on a platform into different patterns.The implementation may be quite challenging, and just like… Read More Cargo-Bot
Join the Hour of Code! Mrs. Nerkizian, our technology instructor, already began to introduce coding to all students last week. Parents can participate at home with their children too! In the library this week, we too will participate in the “The Hour of Code”! “The Hour of Code is designed to demystify code and show that computer science… Read More Hour of Code December 5-11
This week we read many nonfiction books, one of which was Bugs, Bugs Bugs, by Jennifer Dussling. As nonfiction readers, we ask questions in order to delve deeper, to better understand a subject. As we were reading, we noticed we did not understand some of the key words used by the author. In order to understand some of… Read More Swap and Solve