Learning is fun!
Posted in holiday, poetry, and second grade
This week in the Jackson Library, second graders celebrated Veterans Day by interpreting a Cheryl Dyson poem. We discussed the symbolism in the poem, watched a video explaining how different people we meet in the community may be veterans, played a Kahoot game about the poem, and checked out military-themed books. Fun!
Veterans in our Neighborhood
Kahoot Game Based on Poem
Posted in displays and deco, fifth grade, holiday, how to, picture book lesson, poetry, technology, and writing
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 fifth grade, poetry, technology, and writing
Fifth graders had fun in the library week before last creating selfie acrostics. It was a challenge to think of ways to use the letters in our names but it sure was fun!
Student Work 2021
Posted in poetry, remote learning, technology, and writing
Thanks to Kasey Bell for the Summer Magnetic Poetry template! Jackson Library remote learners loved it! Check out their poems!
Posted in character education, displays and deco, fifth grade, poetry, TTESS 1819, and writing
Last week in the Jackson Library, fifth graders researched famous African Americans. They synthesized research information into an acrostic poem highlighting important contributions of the person. Click through to see the people, A to Z!
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Posted in games, holiday, poetry, and second grade
Last week in the Jackson Library, second grade took a Kahoot! quiz based on a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. poem.
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Posted in fourth grade, poetry, and writing
Fourth graders used Judith Viorst’s If I Were in Charge of the World poem as inspiration for writing their own poems in the Jackson Library. Click poem by The Undercover Classroom for Judith Viorst’s version and a template. Thanks, Chrissie!
Posted in apps, assessment, fourth grade, holiday, poetry, technology, and TTESS 1819
Fourth graders came to the library this week to explore different formative assessments. Yesterday we tried Pear Deck but it isn’t ideal for the library in that each student has to log in to his/her Google account and we have to share iPads (work in pairs). So today we tried GoFormative and loved it! I gave each pair of students a Pokemon character’s name on a card and that was their login. Then I gave them all the same password. I set up the class in advance on the site and I took screenshots of a Google Slides presentation I had ready about spooky poems. Then I entered the questions in GoFormative. I like all of the media possibilities- you can import a pdf, video, ask them to draw something on the screen, use multiple choice, audio, etc. I also like how the students can answer at their own pace. In the settings, I marked the choice for ‘after student submits.’ It will be interesting to see how this lesson goes the rest of this week!
Reading Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry: Students make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to explain how the structural elements of poetry (e.g., rhyme, meter, stanzas, line breaks) relate to form) (e.g. lyrical poetry, free verse).
Choose the assessment you want them to take (in background screen here) and then choose your class (Jackson Library).
In optional settings, choose ‘return scores’= after student submits.
Now give the students a QR code or bookmark the Go Formative login screen. Then they are ready to login and click their assignment.
SAMPLE STUDENT LOGIN CARD
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Posted in augmented reality, fourth grade, holiday, poetry, and writing
Fourth graders came to the library to write fun, spooky poems full of imagery. After reading Caswell and Shea’s Boo! Haiku book, the kids created their own spooky-themed poems. They had to choose a topic and then had to describe it well enough so someone could guess the topic. I made a fun interactive bulletin board of these so the kids in the school could guess the topics. What great writers we have at Jackson!
Grade 4
LT: 16 G: Writing/Literary Texts: I can compose poems that convey sensory details using the conventions of poetry (genre characteristics and craft).
Samples from last year
SPANISH ADDED 2021
(5) viento frio
(7) casa atteradora
(5) muchos ruidos
