Learning is fun!
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Last week after listening to Noll’s I Need My Monster story, second graders had fun creating a unique monster who resides under their bed. During check out, we watched the fun animation of the story.
I Need My Monster
I Need My Monster Qs whole story
CRAFT
monster bed – cardstock
I need my monster bed flap – tape
Posted in apps, holiday, picture book lesson, reading skills, and technology
Last week in the Jackson Library, third graders used Google’s Toontastic app to retell the story, The Monsterator by Keith Graves. This app is great because it is free, it allows them to draw their own setting and characters, it offers them options to customize their music and record their voice, and it even adds scrolling movie credits. Check out their creations!
The-Monsterator-Vocabulary-Quiz1
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Posted in displays and deco, holiday, picture book lesson, and technology
Last week, in the Jackson Library, fifth graders had fun writing spooky haikus! This idea is from the book, Boo! Haiku. To get our brains warmed up, I showed the kids some student samples from a couple of years ago and then had them draw a spooky scene. Thinking about how to describe the scene helped the kids to get ideas for their haiku. The bilingual classes chose to write in English or Spanish. Other helpful tips: scatter SPOOKY words1 & spookywords2 on the tables as vocabulary enhancers, don’t ‘require’ use of the form/template- many kids wanted to write their poem rough draft right next to their drawing… Check out their spoooky creations!
MODIFY LESSON: SPOOKY words1
Posted in current events, picture book lesson, and science
Fifth graders learn how to track a hurricane after reading A Storm Called Katrina. We discussed Louis Armstrong and listened to his cornet skills. I showed them some elephant ear plants and we discussed why we are reading this story now and not in January. We talked about coordinates and mapped out Katrina’s path. The author’s use of imagery and foreshadowing was the reading focus of the lesson. We discussed what a levee is and showed photos of a levee break. The kids turned and talked with each other at their tables about the one thing they would grab if their home was about to flood. The author is very good at making the reader empathize with Louis and his family. You could tell the kids were really thinking about what the people in Louisiana had to endure and the resilience of the parishes rebuilding after every disaster.
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Hurricane Tracking
NOAA chart – use for copy center
Posted in seasonal books
Kindergarten had fun in the Jackson Library last week with an autumn leaf unit!
Clifford’s First Autumn- Bridwell ss
Labo Leaves Leaf Art app
Posted in science
Ms. Hillier’s class explored shadow stations in the Jackson Library. After reading The Black Rabbit and discussing shadows, the kids rotated through library stations.
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Station 2- Shadowbox
Materials- cut the bottom off a paperbox, wrap w butcher paper, get large lantern light, miscellaneous objects
Station 3 – Computers
Station 4- Computers – Peep Shadow Play
My Google Site Shadow Stations from when I was at Ogle
Nancy Jo Lambert Shadow Stations Site
Posted in technology
Second grade had fun in the Jackson Library last week making Seesaw selfies! They used the Text tool to add descriptive adjectives.
