April 17, 2011Dear followers of the famous Bill Peet,We, the following students at The New School, (Ciara, Savannah, Greer, Mae, Autumn, Alaira, Emmy, Bobby, Monae, Sam and Ace) spent ten weeks listening and discussing Wump World, Farewell to Shady Glade, The Ant and the Elephant, and The Wingdingdilly.• We liked how Bill Peet makes up Read More >>
Archives for May 2011
Eric Carle Author’s Study
Recently at snack time, the students have been exploring the different styles of author/illustrator Leo Lionni and Eric Carle. The students with desks upstairs have been reading and discussing the similarities in styles of Lionni books such as Tico’s Golden Wings, Fish is Fish and Pezzettino. One of the themes that students discovered is that Read More >>
Earth Day
Earth Day fell during April Break this year, so a week later we brainstormed ideas on what we could do to help care for the Earth. We came up with lots of ideas and ended up with students collecting trash, sweeping the parking lot, raking leaves, cleaning up flower beds and creating posters. We spent Read More >>
A Grain of Rice
The book club for A Grain of Rice has been unique in that students did not read the book individually during silent reading. The book was read aloud as a group twice with the goal of creating a script for a puppet show which the students will be performing. The first reading students took turns Read More >>