Category: ELA

October Pumpkin Character Challenge

It’s October and that means pumpkins are everywhere!  Pumpkins here. Pumpkins there. Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere! Big ones, fat ones. Round ones, flat ones. Small ones, tall ones. Orange ones, white ones. Green ones, blue ones. Bumpy ones, smooth ones. So many to choose from!   Let’s harvest them and bring them to school for some book character fun! Follow the detailed directions below to participate in… Read More October Pumpkin Character Challenge

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Nonfiction Video

Dear Second Graders, You just finished learning all about nonfiction and researched awesome nonfiction subjects like rocks, animal homes and butterflies! Now it’s time to share what you learned! Create a 30-second video about something you just can’t stop talking about – it can be anything! Use the Animoto to create your video. See the… Read More Nonfiction Video

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Mother’s Day

Watch the video,The History of Mother’s Day.  Instead of buying your mom or that special woman in your life a card, make one! Use the book written by Barbara Joosse, I love You the Purplest for inspiration. Here is an example: I Love You the Purplest by Maddie, poet I love you, Mom, the purplest. I love you… Read More Mother’s Day

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Scrabble Day

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 15×15 grid.… Read More Scrabble Day

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Poetry

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! McDonald’s, had the brilliant idea of putting a book instead of a toy in their Happy Meals. McDonald’s included four different books in this experiment. When I heard McDonalds was promoting literacy… Read More Poetry

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