There's lots of 3rd and 4th graders who are jumping every Wednesday after school and they are looking forward to showing their talents at an assembly on February 22nd! These kids are also fundraising to support the efforts of the American Heart Association to help people keep their hearts healthy and strong! Thank you to the community for their support and for encouraging kids to develop positive and healthy habits early in their lives! Great job jumpers!
What a wonderful afternoon we had with our Kinderbuddies on Wednesday! The 4th graders prepared materials to lead a Valentine's activity where the kids made rainbow heart cards for their families! Inside the cards they even added some special thoughts about "Things they Love....." Big buddies wrote words for their Kinderbuddies, who then illustrated their ideas! Here's the song we sang that inspired the project. Enjoy!
I Like Hearts (to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
Red hearts, white hearts,
Pink hearts, too.
I like purple hearts.
How about you?
Green hearts, yellow hearts,
Blue hearts, too.
I like rainbow hearts.
How about you?
To celebrate our friendship and a project well done, the Sweet Tooth Bakery staff frosted up some sweet treats for everyone! Delicious! It was a great afternoon!
I'm so proud of the intensity in our Reader's Workshop! Kids are really getting into their books and discovering all kinds of truths, themes, and authors' messages. Their conversations and "stop-and-jots" are getting more sophisticated and thoughtful - full of interpretation and personal reflection. Super job, kids....
We have some budding, young bakers and business folks in our class! Recently some students in our class began to use their creativity and imaginations to create a bakery. They've named it the "Sweet Tooth Bakery". We'll be using their bakery to learn more about money, making change, discounts, and the endless other things that can be learned from working and creating together in a cooperative team. It's pretty exciting! Here are some pics of the Grand Opening.....
On Friday, I shared a small little Swedish Ivy plant with the class. This little plant was given to our 4th grade team, and comes from The White House, Oval Office, in Washington, D.C. The plant has been there since 1961, and is situated such that when the President looks straight ahead, it will look directly back at them! It was last shared with President Barack Obama. A Richmond parent brought it to us and it will be divided into 3 separate plants when it's ready! How lucky we are to have a piece of our nation's history right here at RES...
This is a guest post from our enrichment teacher, Darcie Rankin and our library media specialist, Beth Redford.
Fourth graders at RES are wrapping up a unit on media literacy. They learned about several strategies that advertisers use to get people's attention and convince them to buy products. Then they practiced finding those strategies in different kinds of advertisements. Finally, the scholars created video advertisements for books, also known as book trailers, to try to convince other scholars to read their favorite stories.
We hope you enjoy the book trailers! Can you identify some of the strategies used by our scholars? They may include Association, Bandwagon, Beautiful People, Bribery, Celebrity Endorsements, Experts, Explicit Claims, Fear, Humor, Intensity, Maybe/Weasel Words, Plain Folks, Testimonials, Repetition, and Warm and Fuzzy.
We share all our scholars' book trailers on YouTube and Twitter. Sometimes we hear back from authors that they liked the trailers! We have added those mentions below the videos.
The author of Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson, liked this book trailer on Twitter!
