Make Way for Ducklings

Dear 5th grade,
 I loved sharing Make Way for Ducklings with you during Children's Book Week. Today we are going to learn a little bit more about Boston by taking this Google LitTrip for the book. It's a great way to explore Boston virtually as well as get familiar with Google Earth.

Book Trailers: An introduction

Dear 7th graders,
As a way to get psyched about summer reading, you will be making book trailers to share on Edmodo. Please choose a book that you think a middle school student would love!
Here's my example:

Today will you decide on which book you want to create a book trailer for and complete a storyboard for your book trailer.

Who Was Melvil Dewey?

 I am excited to talk about one of my favorite people with the 5th graders. MELVIL DEWEY! If you don't know who he was, you'll definitely know after watching these 2 short videos.

Who Was Melvil Dewey?

Celebrating National Poetry Month with Spine Poetry!

The 3rd grade classes created Spine Poems for National Poetry Month. I hope you enjoy reading the poems they created by putting together the spines of various library books.

Happy Poetry Month!

The 7th graders will be reading and presenting poetry in their English Language Arts classes. For inspiration, check out this clip by Sarah Kay. Sarah is a young and very accomplished poet from New York who does an amazing job in her poetry recitation.

Henry Knox

Dear 5th graders, I am very excited to read the book Henry Knox: Bookseller, Soldier, Patriot to you. There are many famous Americans who are remembered for their roles in the American Revolution. I'm hoping you learn something new today about an important individual; I think Henry Knox was pretty cool!

As I read, please share what you have learned about Henry Knox or the American Revolution on our TodaysMeet wall. Don't worry too much about complete sentences and grammar, but make sure that your note will be understandable to you (and others) later.

Henry Knox TodaysMeet

The Watcher by Jeannette Winter

We are in the middle of our Chickadee Extravaganza - celebrating great pictures and thinking critically about their strengths. K-3 students are hearing 10 different picture books read aloud over 10 days. Next week they will vote for their favorite! One of the titles on this year's Chickadee list is The Watcher by Jeanette Winter. This is a biography about famed chimpanzee researcher, Jane Goodall. Here is a link to a video about Jane. It's a great way to see where she lived and the actual chimpanzees that we learn about in the book!