The Super 3 is an information problem solving model for young children based on the Big 6. The Super 3 gives young students a process for tackling both school and everyday tasks with the three simple steps: 1. Plan What am I supposed to do? What do I need to get the job done? What… Read More Plan, Do, Review
Everyone has the potential to be writer! Today you will unleash your writing potential when using an online story writer called, Storybird. We will watch the introductory video together, to understand how Storybird works. When you feel ready and have no questions about Storybird, you may grab a chromebook and get started using the… Read More Writing Inspiration
Halloween is a time to face our deepest fears, dress up like monsters, spend time with friends and family and write spooky Halloween Poems! Onomatopoeia Poems use words that imitate or sound just like the source of the sound they describe. Examples of these words are jingle,creak, tick, roar, boom and slurp. Write a free… Read More Halloween Poetry
This week, kindergarten students will meet Tad Hills! Tad Hills is the creator of the New York Times bestsellers How Rocket Learned to Read, Rocket Writes a Story, Duck & Goose, Duck, Duck, Goose, and Duck & Goose Go to the Beach! Tad’s new book is R IS FOR ROCKET, an ABC book with Rocket, the beloved… Read More Author Visit:Tad Hills
In order for second grade students to solve this breakout they must understand how to use the William O. Schaefer On Line Public Access Library System (OPALS). Students will work in six groups. Each group will be given an envelop containing their special breakout clues. Students must understand how the books in the library are organized. Fiction… Read More Library Orientation Breakout
Today we will use the ReadWriteThink’s Trading Card App to create a trading card for a fictional character of your choice. Consider using a character from your series study. Once the ” Fictional Person” category is selected, you will complete specific guiding questions for creating a dynamic, information-rich trading card. Your summarizing skills are critical… Read More Fiction Person Trading Cards
When we look at characters in fiction writing it is easy for us to identify their character traits. Today, we will look at our very own character traits. Are they positive character traits? Negative character traits? Whatever they are, it is often very difficult to identify our own character traits and change the ones we… Read More Telligami You!
I am first with five Then seven in the middle — Five again to end Observed annually on April 17, National Haiku Poetry Day encourages all to try their hand in creativity. Haiku poetry is a form of Japanese poetry that is non-rhyming and normally consists of 3 lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.… Read More National Haiku Poetry Day