Red Ribbon Week

We pledge to stay drug free!

Once Upon A Fantasy Story...

From prewriting to drafting, revising for craft, and now editing... Students were hard at work this week, making their way through the writing process.  Fantasy stories are due on Monday.

Making Chinese Slat Books with Mrs. Glazer

As part of our global village unit we visited China! We learned about Chinese slat books and made our own.

Vacation in a Fantasy Land

Fourth and fifth grade book club project... Create a visitor's guidebook for the fantasyland depicted in your book club book.  Great job, boys and girls!

Fantasyland

Fourth and fifth grade ELA students are applying the finishing touches to their Book Club projects, due Monday. 

Messy real-world problem solving-- Mr. Wonsidler's homeroom

Today, students were given a bucket of notched plastic triangles, squares, and hexagons.
They had a few minutes to explore silently.
Then they took turns with different roles-- Recorder, Director, and Actor--
in interacting with the shapes.
Their job was to find out what they could do with these shapes and decide why
they were given these objects.

The kids loved working with these platonic solids and the teamwork exhibited was FANTASTIC!
Ask them about it if you get a chance!

The Great Debate- printed info or web?

** from last week

Which source is better...

Textbooks or a website like History.com?

the verdict?

a stalemate... 

use both to improve our research and understanding

3rd Grade Historical Fiction

3rd grade journals about the significance of the minor characters and subplots in historical fiction text.