September 15th is International DOT DAY!
Celebrate Creativity, Courage, and Collaboration!!
MAKE YOUR MARK!
Celebrate Creativity, Courage, and Collaboration!!
MAKE YOUR MARK!
 The lower grades are studying Math Fables Too: Making Science Count. by Gregory Tang. This book illustrates, through the use of rhyme and cool animal facts, different ways to solve addition problems to ten. While this book does an excellent job with grouping combinations of numbers, it is even more outstanding with its information about animals and the vocabulary it exposes the kiddos too. The sophisticated science vocabulary and concepts make this a 5th grade reading level book (5.1) but perfect for a read aloud for young kids. This is a good example of a lower grades interest level (LG) with high reading level. We want young kids to be reading books with appropriate themes and concepts, even when they are advanced readers.
To help the HES students stay organized when trying to conduct research, I have organized these high quality shortcuts, known as tiles in a "Symbaloo Webmix." The students in grades 3-5 are familiar with this webmix format and its content. Happy Searching!! Lower Grades Learn About the Library from the Shelf-Elf
Jackie Mims Hopkins http://www.jackiemimshopkins.com/ writes really fun books about libraries. In the book The Shelf Elf, the students learn how to use shelf markers and all sorts of cool library manners... in the Shelf Elf Helps Out, they learn about different "library neighborhoods" and why books are grouped together by category. This very introductory lesson helps the students know that there is a method to where the books are placed on the shelves and the importance of keeping the books in their correct "neighborhood" so they do not get lost.
Over the past two weeks, grades 3-5 have been looking closely at the amazing research resources that are available. Here is a brief lineup of what we studied:
Reliable Search Engines:
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