Learning is fun!
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Pre-K had fun today exploring what animals and insects are hiding inside the tall, tall grass. At the end of the lesson, the kids were introduced to Jack Hartmann’s version of the Tooty-Ta Dance.
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Today in the Jackson Library, third graders used context clues to determine the meaning of unknown ‘alien’ words in the story Baloney (Henry P.). After the story, they played Kahoot! quizzes to assess their learning. Fun!
Round 1
Round 2
Quizizz
Sample class Quizizz data:
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Before Spring Break, third graders used inference skills to answer questions in the Eric Kraft story, Chocolatina. They used active response cards to answer other types of questions throughout the book. At the computer station, they read Epic! books about chocolate. Finally, we took a Kahoot assessment in pairs before checking out books.
Chocolatina-active-participation-cards
How Chocolate is Made – video
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Kindergarteners enjoyed Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? in the Jackson Library. We sequenced the story pictures and used the interactive app at the tables. Ms. Gallegos’ bilingual class enjoyed Alina Celeste’s version of the book as a song on her YouTube channel. Check it out!
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book on video
Spanish
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Pre-K had fun today in the Jackson Library with sequencing during the story, The Hug Machine by Scott Campbell. At the tables, they listened to Valentine songs and created a card for their teachers! Before they left, they practiced an alphabet dance for the video, “What Do the Letters Say?”
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Last week in the Jackson Library, kindergarteners made a fun groundhog puppet and first graders sequenced story events using the book, Mr. Groundhog Wants the Day Off. They read an interactive story about Groundhog Day at the computer station using the Starfall site.
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Last week in the Jackson Library, first graders analyzed character traits and the motives of the characters in @bobshea ‘s Cheetah Can’t Lose picture book. As we read the book about Cheetah racing the kittens, we watched the little kittens snicker and Cheetah become more brazen with his bragging. The kids started putting velcro boxes on Cheetah’s feet, balloons in his hand, and sundaes in his mouth on the poster to think about what was really going on here. I think the visual poster in addition to reading the book helps them to conceptualize what is happening. After deducing that the kittens were trying to make Cheetah lose the race, we discussed the complex ending and why it ended that way. It was a great discussion on how to be a true friend and the characteristics of a friend. At the tables, the kids recalled the objects the kittens used to thwart Cheetah.
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This week in the Jackson Library, kindergarten categorized the good things and bad things about being a dinosaur from the book Rawr! by Todd H. Doodler. Then at the tables, they created a dinosaur puppet to expand on even more things not in the story. They completed a dinosaur puzzle on the tablets.
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Pre-K had fun in the Jackson Library last week identifying tails after we read van Fleet’s Tails book. After ‘pinning the tail on the animal’, they sang along with the song and then played the ‘Whose Tail’ game on the iPad.
Guess the Tail Lesson
Last week in the Jackson Library, kindergarteners studied the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We read The Sweet Smell of Roses and discussed the impact his words had on changing laws in America. The monolingual kindergarten classes colored and completed an emergent reader (by Simply Kinder) and sang songs, while the bilingual class colored a Spanish reader (by The ABC Bilingual Patch) and sang this awesome Spanish version of “We Will Overcome” from a class on YouTube. All children watched the MLK BrainPop video about his life.
MLK Jr. Day
Simply Kinder Emergent Reader – ENG
ABC Bilingual Patch MLK Emergent Reader – SPA
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