Halloween – Jackson Elementary Library

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 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!

5th grade boo haikus 2021

MODIFY LESSON: spooky words1

spooky words2

Spa haiku sample

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+++More books by Deanna Caswell+++Note on how to embed a Google Doc popout:Share your Google Doc.Go to the three dots at the top.Choose ‘open in new window’- this used to be called ‘pop out’ open goo doc in new window

Then choose: embed item choose pop out

Copy the embed code URL

Change the ‘height’ to a larger number so more of the document can be viewed at once:

I think I made the height of this one 3000

October 24, 2018

Amy Kincaid

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There Was an Old Monster

Posted in apps, holiday, and Pre-K

Pre-K had fun today with the Emberley family story, There Was an Old Monster. First we read the story. Then the kids came and put the animals in the monster’s stomach in the order that he ate them. They were surprised at the end when a big neon lion came and ate the monster! We listened to Rebecca Emberley sing the fun song and we did the If You’re a Monster and You Know It dance. At the tables, the kids played with Sago Mini Monsters and Ed Emberley’s Go Away Big Green Monster apps. I am disappointed that the GABGM app is no longer available in the US – I still had it on my iPads from last year. It looks like now it is only available in the Romania iTunes store. Maybe they’ll add it back soon! Before we left, we sang Ms. Patterson’s class version of If You’re a Monster and You Know It. (video below)