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|Students demonstrate their “how-to” projects.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 - by Jennifer Grant
The genre for April in the 8th grade literature class was a How-to-Project. Students were required to read a how-to book and create the item. The students had to create the project at home or demonstrate it in front of the class.
The 5/6 grade students also had to write a how-to report. One student chose to write about and demonstrate how to do the soccer rainbow. Very impressive.
January’s Book Club
Monday, February 13th, 2012 - by Jennifer Grant
The 8th grade literature students read The Diary of Anne Frank during the month of February. The culminating activity was to hold a “book club meeting “in class on Friday, February 10th. Students brought in 5 discussion questions that they presented to the group. Each student was asked to bring in a snack to share with their classmates while discussing the book.
Freckle Juice
Friday, December 2nd, 2011 - by Jennifer Grant
The young elementary class has been reading Freckle Juice by Judy Blume. As an extension, students were able to bring in ingredients to make their own version of freckle juice. They had fun sharing ideas and mixing their ingredients. Needless to say, they did not drink their concoction as the main character did in the book!
Our Town Projects
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 - by Dawn Fix
In American Literature class we just finished reading Thorton Wilder’s Our Town. Students were given the option to either create a dramatic or art/crafts project to express their creative thinking, comprehension or the play’s concepts, and explain their favorite scene(s) from the play.
Quote from one of our students..
“For my project on Our Town I did a drawing. My drawing resembles the town in the book. I like imagining how the town would be like. I enjoyed being creative by designing the town. When I was working on the project I had a fun time.”
–NM
Adventures in Literature
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 - by Dawn Fix
The High School Resource students have been working on a unit involving life on the Mississippi River during the 1830’s.
They have read abridged versions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and done extensive research on what life was like living on the Mississippi during that time period in American History. (more…)
Resource Room Celebrates Sign of the Beaver
Friday, November 19th, 2010 - by Jennifer Grant
The Resource Room class finished Sign of the Beaver this week. They read the book every day and participated in activities such as summarizing, sampling the food, acting out scenes, writing activities, and dressing up as a favorite character. Each student also created his own persuasive bound book. They culminated the unit by watching the movie Sign of the Beaver on Friday. It has been a great experience and lots of fun for the students to be immersed in this novel.
