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September 20, 2018
Amy Kincaid
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Ninja Boy and Second Grade

Posted in apps, reading skills, and second grade

Last week in the Jackson Library, second graders predicted what would happen to ninja boy when he tried to sneak out of his classroom in Ninja Boy Goes to School. Then we inferred about what his dad was doing when he put a large box on a high shelf…did Ninja Boy get in trouble?  The kids used picture clues and context clues to see why the author compared ninja boy to a tree, a flamingo, and a gorilla. At the tables during check out, the kids used the Ninja Sight Words app to slice the words as they heard them but to leave the other words alone. We sang “Kung Fu Fighting” to end our lesson.

 

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Ninja Boy Goes to School
Ninja Boy Goes to School

Fry Words Ninja app

Sight Words Ninja app

 

 

September 19, 2018
Amy Kincaid
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Rain! with Pre-K

Posted in apps, Pre-K, and reading skills

Pre-K came to the library this week and listened to a read aloud of Rain! by Stojic.  They sequenced pictures of the animals in the story and then used the Duck Duck Moose! app, The Itsy Bitsy Spider. They had to make the spider climb the waterspout and then they moved clouds in to make it rain. We listened to rain songs at the end of the lesson.

Rain book Stojic

Rain!

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September 17, 2018
Amy Kincaid
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Dot Day Google Hangout 2018

Posted in fifth grade, fun events, picture book lesson, reading skills, and technology

Ms. Shearman’s bilingual fifth graders had fun discussing Peter Reynold’s book, The Dot, with Ms. Lintelman’s bilingual fifth graders at McWhorter Elementary in Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD last Thursday!  We set up Google Hangouts on my MacBook in the library to ask each other critical thinking questions about the book. It was fun getting another class’ perspective on the book. Check out our discussions below! Ms. Lintelman and I worked together to create a writing assignment the kids will share with each other. Friday was the official International Dot Day, and  both classes wrote about how they encouraged someone like Vashti did in the story or how someone encouraged them. We’re going to mail the papers so the other class can read them. We also discussed collaborating some more with these two classes later in the year. Fun!

Learn more about International Dot Day here:

Dot Day

Click here for our: Ⓓⓞⓣ Ⓓⓐⓨ ②⓪①⑧ Lesson Plans

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dot day gho 2018

Writing Assignment

 

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