15 Card Flickr - Room 6

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Once there were zombies. Then they started dancing to Michael Jackson. Then they invaded Lego kingdoms.

Credit: NathanF

Then the zombies ran around in the soccer field and ate soccer players.

Credit: Jonas B

Then the polar bear came to save the day and ate the zombies. Then the polar bear turned into a zombie!

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Next, the polar bear tried to eat a baby huskie; but the little huskie ate the polar bear's head off.

Credit: Loimere

The tiger ate the huskie. But the tiger got really sick and ended up throwing up. Then the tiger farted.

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A cute puppy was looking in the sky, saw Slenderman, and ran away.

Credit: Ana Rivas

The puppy went to Austin's concert.

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Then the soccer players made Austin smack himself.

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Then they saw cheetahs and ran away because they thought the cheetahs were going to eat them.

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Then the cheetahs saw the car and started to drive it away.

Credit: Keith Roper

Then the cheetahs crashed into a lake and bumped into a tiger.

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One Direction was at a concert, got hit by a bus, and turned into zombies. But then they came back alive and married a beautiful girl named Maddie.

Credit: Selena Gomez & The Scene

The One Direction became zombies again and ate Selena Gomez. But then she came back to life and married Michael.

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Then Rhianna got jealous and turned into a zombie and ate both of them. But before that happened, the zombies tried to get Rhianna but found out there were four of her.

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And Michael and Selena came back to life and Adam married NyanCat.

8 Card Flickr - Room 10

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One day there was a giant pack of Cheetos. Under the Cheetos was a spade. The Cheeto picked up the spade and started attacking the city.

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One day, a peasant named Steve was exploring the world of spheres. Five minutes after that, he got attacked by a big bag of Cheetos, and he destroyed it with a sphere.

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One day there was a bacon named Sizzlin' Bacon. The Cheetos ate the bacon. Then the bacon turned giant and ate the Cheetos. The pieces of bacon threw up the Cheetos.

Credit: Kids' Birthday Parties ... ???

That very same day, a kid named Bob got a Minecraft shirt for his birthday. His awesome friend Mike, who was at the party, ate all the cake. After they ate the cake, Bob then tried to start a Harlem Shake and failed.

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Mike and Bob went to a haunted house on a hill.

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Mike and Bob gave a crabby patty to Plankton.

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Then Plankton ran to the pancake store and got some pancakes to celebrate Crabby Patty day with Mike and Bob. But then the Cheetos came and ate the pancakes,the bacon, Bob and Mike.

Credit: Kevin M.Gill


And then the Cheetos took over the world. 

Microsoft Word - Thesaurus

When it turned out that our print thesaurus didn't include some of the words for which the third graders wanted synonyms, I decided to eschew it in favor of an online resource: Microsoft Word. Did you know that it can help you find better, more interesting words when you are writing a report or a story?

Depending on the version on your computer, the way to access the thesaurus varies slightly. But it's generally under "Tools" on the standard toolbar.

Students practiced opening Word on the laptops, then typed a word and chose a new one from the thesaurus. Here are some of their synonym pairs:

smart	brainy
money	cash currency
crazy	fanciful
annoying	bothersome
awesome	breathtaking astonishing
break	snap in two
sassy	impudent

THANK YOU SPIE!

Thanks to the generosity of Shelley Fusco and SPIE, the library was able to use bookfair proceeds to acquire dozens of in-demand titles from Scholastic.

Everything you see below (well, except for the math picture books that will be used for teaching) has already been checked out. I'm not sure how I managed to leave Haunted Houses out of the picture ... not only is it out, but 15 students have placed holds on it! What a treat to get brand-new books in the middle of the year. THANK YOU!!!!

ABC Order - Grade 1

The first graders have been selecting picture books from the shelves for a couple of months now; I want to make sure they understand how the shelving works, so we have been reviewing alphabetization. Kids took turns coming up to the SMART Board to play two games. You can try them at home:

Learning Planet ABC Order

Earobics Paw Park 2 (seen below)

School Libraries & Student Achievement

Synonym Games

Third graders are learning about synonyms, antonyms, and how to use a thesaurus. These games got them started:

Synonyms Rags to Riches - can you make it to a million?

Synonym Toast - I had trouble with this one ... it's fast-paced!

Click When You See the Synonym

Colorful Chameleons - PM K

In kindergarten, we read The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle and talked about how chameleons can change color. Here is one in action:

Then the students colored their own chameleons.

 

 

Click the Continents

Do you know the location of all 7 continents and 5 oceans?

Test yourself and see how quickly you can reach 100%.

I believe the best fourth-grade time is J.M. with 16 seconds.

Grade 5 Advertising Agency

To coincide with the timing of the Superbowl (and its ads), fifth graders learned about three advertising tactics to be aware of: exaggeration, generalization, and scare tactics.

We saw exaggeration in a car ad and generalization for pistachios.

Then the students created their own ads using at least one of these tactics. Here are some of them: